Spotted Sea Trout: inshore and near-shore over grass, sand and mud bottoms. Deeper waters during the warmest and coolest months. Use live shrimp or baitfish fished near bottom by free lining or under a popping cork, or soft-bodied jigs or surface plugs cast while drifting.

Limits: 15" minimum overall, 5 per person per day, including one over 20"

Cobia: both inshore and near-shore around pilings, buoys, and wrecks; along beaches during spring and early summer. Use trolling or casting lures, jigs or live pinfish.

Limits: 33" minimum to fork of tail, one per person per day

Redfish (red drum): inshore near grass beds, oyster bars, docks and pilings; deeper channels during warmest and coolest months. Use live shrimp or pinfish fished on bottom or free-lined, or soft bodied jigs bounced slowly along the bottom.

Limits: 18" minimum 27" maximum overall, one per person per day

Sheepshead: inshore species around oyster bars, seawalls and in tidal creeks; moves near-shore in late winter and early spring for spawning, gathering over debris, artificial reefs and around navigation markers. Use shrimp, fiddler crabs or pieces of fresh blue crab fished on the bottom.

Limits: 12" minimum to fork of tail

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