With cooler mornings and slightly shorter days, the inshore bite began to pick up again. Redfish started schooling up ahead of their fall spawn, with large groups pushing across flats and sandbars. Live and cut bait worked well, but topwater lures also became more effective. Snook started moving back into the bays, and the trout bite improved significantly, especially on grass flats near Longboat Key and Palma Sola Bay. Nearshore, the gag grouper bite started shifting shallow