The day will usually start around daybreak, depending on what will be used for bait you will either start fishing right away throwing artificials to redfish, speckled trout, and snook or you will glide across the flats to the area where you will help the captain cast net baitfish for the days fishing. Once this is decided the fishing will start.

You will catch glimpses of many of the fish you are going to catch as you move through the area's maze of mangrove shorelines.  You will spot many targets to present your bait to. Now the fun begins, you must stop the hard charging snook from getting to the shoreline where he will likely break your line off in the oyster-encrusted roots of the mangroves. This exhilaration often happens within the first hour and you still have the rest of the day to try and get even. 

In addition to the snook there are many other inshore fish that will test your angling talent. Some like the Redfish will pull like a truck and try to overwhelm you with brute force rather than cut you on sharp crustaceans.  Trout who will battle you on the surface, trying to throw what ever you have snared him on right back at you. If this sounds like something you might like inshore flats fishing is for you.