April, May, June and July you want to use live pin fish, Threadfins,Whitebait,silver trout or pass crabs on a float 5 ft deep in 9 to 11 ft of water. 90 percent of my Tarpon are hooked up in 11 ft of water! Hour before to hour after tide change you should hook up no problem. Dead bait the best is fresh whole SHAD ,cut the tail off so the tide will not spin the bait and twist the line also chum,chum,chum cut them up in 4's, cut bottom off gal milk jug it will let you throwchum futher or a wiffel bat works great . ladyfish works great too. Nuber 8/o hook on dead bait with 100 lb mono leader and a number 5 or 6 on live (circle) with 80 mono leader. You need the heavy leader with a spin reel the fight will be too long and the line will fray and you'll get cut off after twenty minutes. 60 pound
Power Pro on your reel. High tide the fish are closer to the beach same as bait. Low tide everything is futher out! Full moons! Best! You should be working on those 20 pound snook on the beach . Good luck Capt Jay