By David A. Brown, OutdoorChannel.com
Since the devastating freeze that gripped Florida in January 2010, I haven't paid a lot of attention to snook on the state's Gulf Coast. Admittedly, I'd kinda forgotten how much fun these fish can be, but a recent visit to a true inshore gem on the peninsula's opposite side renewed my zeal for the pin-striped rod-benders.
Florida's premier inshore gamefish is far from absent on the west side, but numbers are still down, harvest remains – rightfully – closed and rounding up a day's worth of decent action is still speculative in many formerly productive areas. Not so in Jensen Beach. During a morning of wade fishing...