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Bigfoot friendly
Mobile bay is a lot different than Tampa bay for sure. I’m used to catching bait with a net, but shrimp and bull minnows from the bait shop was the only live bait we could get our hands on. We threw a lot of artificial baits, but the bites came on the live bait.
Friday evening was slow with just a few catfish and silver trout, but I did manage a keeper mangrove snapper.
Saturday am was CRAZY! The massive red and yellow ball on the radar seemed miles away from us, so we went. Very few bites and within 2 hours, our lines started floating to the sky! Then the rods standing in the holder started buzzing like power lines! It was CRAZY and we decided it best not to be out there!
Saturday after the storm, we went back out and got quite a few bites, but mostly catfish and a few silver trout. The water is so shallow out there with pretty much nonexistent channels. Sooo different than where I grew up. Chocolate water versus the clear and no grass flats to drift over. But there was a nice marsh looking area I finally convinced my bff to go check out. He never went there before cause the water over most of the mud flat was less than 3-4’. At the marsh we found 6-8’ of water and it was much clearer but barely salty….brackish mostly fresh. Again not a lot of bites, but I did manage a keeper black drum and a Flounder! The flounder was a solid legal fish, but so much more than that! No doubt my bff will be checking out that and other similar areas now! Ok, so I did dog him a little cause his boat IS a Flats boat!
So here it is Sunday am and so far I only have 3 small keepers……pressure is on! We anchored beside the big hole close to the bait shop and small bridge again. I FINALLY hooked up on bull red! Using 12# vanish with a 20# leader is certainly no horse of a combo, but I told that fish I had all day and was in no hurry!! After a few tense moments, I landed him and had my red! WOOHOO! Celebration was on and so was the bite! For about 2 hours we got bit good and hard, but only managed 1 slot red, and 4 overs! I caught 2 more nice black drum and now we got filets to bring home! Since I had 2 oversized reds so I had to let one go, but took his picture first! We were pretty(very) wiped out and had a mess to clean up so we were outta there by noon! Man what a day and a great trip! Alabama has been good to me and I can’t wait to go back!
Friday evening was slow with just a few catfish and silver trout, but I did manage a keeper mangrove snapper.
Saturday am was CRAZY! The massive red and yellow ball on the radar seemed miles away from us, so we went. Very few bites and within 2 hours, our lines started floating to the sky! Then the rods standing in the holder started buzzing like power lines! It was CRAZY and we decided it best not to be out there!
Saturday after the storm, we went back out and got quite a few bites, but mostly catfish and a few silver trout. The water is so shallow out there with pretty much nonexistent channels. Sooo different than where I grew up. Chocolate water versus the clear and no grass flats to drift over. But there was a nice marsh looking area I finally convinced my bff to go check out. He never went there before cause the water over most of the mud flat was less than 3-4’. At the marsh we found 6-8’ of water and it was much clearer but barely salty….brackish mostly fresh. Again not a lot of bites, but I did manage a keeper black drum and a Flounder! The flounder was a solid legal fish, but so much more than that! No doubt my bff will be checking out that and other similar areas now! Ok, so I did dog him a little cause his boat IS a Flats boat!
So here it is Sunday am and so far I only have 3 small keepers……pressure is on! We anchored beside the big hole close to the bait shop and small bridge again. I FINALLY hooked up on bull red! Using 12# vanish with a 20# leader is certainly no horse of a combo, but I told that fish I had all day and was in no hurry!! After a few tense moments, I landed him and had my red! WOOHOO! Celebration was on and so was the bite! For about 2 hours we got bit good and hard, but only managed 1 slot red, and 4 overs! I caught 2 more nice black drum and now we got filets to bring home! Since I had 2 oversized reds so I had to let one go, but took his picture first! We were pretty(very) wiped out and had a mess to clean up so we were outta there by noon! Man what a day and a great trip! Alabama has been good to me and I can’t wait to go back!
