Do you have a boat? This time of year especially in the morning and evening the sand bass will be chasing shad on the surface. In order to find them just look for the sea gulls that are flying over the shad. Ease up to the school so as not to scare them and throw a shiney rattle trap into the middle of them and you will catch a sand bass on almost every cast. If you don't have a boat the channel catfish should be biting from the shore.