Recently had my first trip to Gulf Shores, Alabama. I did a little surf fishing, way too hot. I thought it was humid down around Ft. Bragg but in Gulf Shores it was a sauna.
A couple of days the actual temp. was 89* with a heat index of 106*.
They have a lot of the same fish down there with exceptions and fish a little different style. About the only salt water fishing I have ever done is throwing out a couple of soakers around Kure and Carolina Beaches.
They prefer:
- Only use fresh dead, never frozen, not salted shrimp
- Use live shrimp if available
- Use ghost shrimp if available
- Terminal tackle, black or bronze, no shiny dropper rigs from Walmart, water clarity I guess.
- Gulp Shrimp, 3" New Penny, flavor of choice, maybe white
- Circle hooks very popular
- Red Drum slot is 16" to 26", anything over slot is a "Bull"
Same as East Coast plenty of sharks and a new one to me 'Salt Water Catfish' that have very sharp poisonous spines.
I would like to make a return trip sometime, spring or fall, never again in July.
A couple of days the actual temp. was 89* with a heat index of 106*.
They have a lot of the same fish down there with exceptions and fish a little different style. About the only salt water fishing I have ever done is throwing out a couple of soakers around Kure and Carolina Beaches.
They prefer:
- Only use fresh dead, never frozen, not salted shrimp
- Use live shrimp if available
- Use ghost shrimp if available
- Terminal tackle, black or bronze, no shiny dropper rigs from Walmart, water clarity I guess.
- Gulp Shrimp, 3" New Penny, flavor of choice, maybe white
- Circle hooks very popular
- Red Drum slot is 16" to 26", anything over slot is a "Bull"
Same as East Coast plenty of sharks and a new one to me 'Salt Water Catfish' that have very sharp poisonous spines.
I would like to make a return trip sometime, spring or fall, never again in July.
