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in the early season (about mid may up this way) i love a cloudy day, some rollers and alittle white water, but not a ton. go to is a herring colored small mambo minnow (small tattoo swimmer in herring or white is also good, but my favorite is the mambo). work it on the edges of the bar / structure or right in the white water where and when the wave just starts to break - you need to time and locate you cast perfectly for this. you'll need a light leader for this and you'll need to test swim your mambos as i find them to be very inconsistant - some swim great no matter what, some just suck no matter what, and some swim well only on light leader with the knot located at the perfect spot. I need to experiment with loop knots to see if I can improve this. None of the snaps that i've tried that are small enough for these small lures can stand up to even keeper sized fish. Light tackle is fun for this but can get you in trouble. Sluggos can be very effective here too, but I enjoy fishing the mambo more, it seams alittle more cerebral.
when night tides start becoming an option (late may to early june up here, at a few spots, later at most) you can't go wrong with an a-salt bomber on a relatively calm night. yellow if there's a moon or artificial light, blurple if not. slow retrieve with an occasional light twitch (think flick more than twitch - rod tip should only move an inch or two). this method has accounted for most of my better (30-35ish) early season fish. if your getting lots of short strikes, try twitching more often and speeding up the retrieve a bit.
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