Usually something shiny and bright will get you something.

Your basic spoon of a medium size would be a safe bet. I’d go silver or gold. Also, lead-headed feather jigs are pretty good too. As for size and weight that really depends on the surf. You want enough weight for it to sink and not get easily swept away in the surf but not much more. So it depends on the day and how much the surf is moving. As for fish, barracudas should be in the surf along with jacks and probably some others. You’d even get some snook in the surf near an inlet.

spoons are a good choice you can catch red fish tarpon seatrout barecuda and many other but this can be hard to be sucesssful i would recomend using cut fish or shrimp {peeled} U can catch bluefish whitting flounder shark reds tarpon and you never know exatcly what else u might catch that is wy it is so fun to fish in the salt water Good luck

Try a DOA shrimp lure …you can find them in any tackle store in south FL they work great

i like plastic jigs. someting like this:
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