First off Welcome to the Site.
Lots of time people go in chest deep water to catch specks and scratch. The locals don't get their knees wet and the limit out on the beach....... How, They keep moving, walk with the beach. Fish between the first sandbar and the beach. Use a tandem rigged soft plastics (gulp, H&H cacahoe, Deadly Dudleys, whatever you pefer) 1/4 oz jighead bounce them off the bottom, if that don't work swim them, if that don't work throw topwater. Use 2 different colors, if you catching on one color and not the other switch them out to the same color.
If the camp you renting has a boiling pot for you to use try to fish some crabs for a change of pace. Set up a pa-lon. 2 poles about 10' long stick them in the sand 100' part running parralel to the beach. Run a 1/4" rope between them and off that rope tie a piece of string about 10' long on it. One end of the string will be tied to your main line and bait on the other, I use chicken leg quarters, it $.59 a pound and last a while.
There's a few grand isle experts around here, hopefully they'll be along to help you out.
Make sure you post your results!
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