Fly fisherman with snook taken from shore in Naples, Florida, August, 2022.

We go to Arroyo City in far S. Texas every winter for nite-lite dock fishing for schoolie specs (limit every night). 

The snook stack up on our dock piles, loitering in the shadows, and are tough to entice.  Easiest way to catch one is fish a tandem rig and let the spec catch the snook for you in a double. 

Since we're imitating glass minnows in the winter, the smaller the better, and I found finesse plugs made for FW trout with a hook swap take both specs and snook. 

this one is 18" and hopping off the table before going back into the barge channel.  They're a hoot on BFS. 

 

Also catch the schoolie specs on fly rod, but haven't been able to turn a snook.