April- backwater fishing starting to heat up

Dr. "Red"riguez pulled in some nice Redfish, two of them being 25+ inches in mid-April. The waters around Cedar Key haver been steadily warming and the Trout and Redfish have been prowling the grass and oyster bar edges. 
Shrimp, Gulp, pinfish and cut Mullet are good bait choices. Suspending the bait just above or bouncing the bait over the oyster clumps or fishing the steeper bank edges are all good choices. The standard 1/4 or 3/8 oz. jig head is popular and some of us, myself included prefer a circle hook with no additional weight on a 20# leader under a popping cork or cajun thunder.

Walking the shell and oyster bars is a great way to cool off and sight fish.

Tips, Lessons learned:
>Fishing the rising and falling tides are preferable to a slack tide. 
>Fish the "cut's" between oyster bars and anywhere else water is moving.
>Look for Trout over the grass flats, especially the spotty bottom.