Rat reds and dink trout to just keepers will be taking over the creek holes and thumping any jig and soft plastic combo. Live shrimp with a bb split shot is the alternative for trout, black drum or reds if artificial is not your thing.
Sheep head are another sight fishable species located during first of incoming tides on oyster beds on the flats or around bridge and dock pilings. Best bait are fiddler crabs hands down but shrimp will do in a pinch. During high tides look for sheepheads in the Palm Coast Canals, most fish will be feeding on the barnacles that are on the seawalls and docks.
Over the last week sight fishing has been a bit tough with the winds but finding a creek out of the wind has given my clients opportunities at sight fishing reds like the one Mark is holding in this picture.
My nephew just moved here from Colombia and has never had a chance to fish since most of the fish in Colombia have been depleted due to lack of regulations and they mostly cast net fish for food and not sport. We targeted oyster bars on this day looking for singles and found a few.
A few days later Feci (fishntheflats) came down and fished with my nephew and I, we had a slow start with finding only one fish on a flat that fell to a white Fish Bite Extreme
I knew there was a school or reds somewhere on this flat and we finally found them in a creek where we landed and lost a few more.
As stated in my fishing forecast there are plenty of rat reds, trout and drum in creek holes which makes for a great day when fishing with the kids. Non stop action could be had in one creek hole using live shrimp and Daiichi 1/0 circle hooks and a bb split shot. Just last week Tommy and I had charters and shared a creek hole where anyone who had a line in the water was hooked up 
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