If a popper type fails to get results switch to a deeper running lip bait. Sometimes it's necessary to go deep, as when predator fish are on the bottom. Don't handicap yourself with a single selection or style of lures, try fishing the entire water column, top to bottom. If the birds aren't doing their job, it does not mean that fish aren't around. Find the troughs or valleys by first locating the sandbars.
Waves begin breaking over the shallower waters.
If you see relative calm inside offshore breakers, chances are it's because of deeper water, where fish will be hanging out, waiting for the rolling waters to uncover some food. Casting to inside and outside edges of the breakers is always a good move. Shift about, try to locate any deeper channels around the inlets and fish the edges. Look for any changing topography. Fish are always hungry and seek shelter and food around rocks, jetties, wrecks, channels, grass or seaweed formations, coral or rock outcroppings.