Am Going to Gulfshores next week with my pastor whose wife inherated a house there! I am taking my 23’ cc. Anyone have any info on fishing there in Aug? I undestand there is a good bottom bite around the oil and gas rigs. But the red snapper season is closed but the grouper are red hot! any help will be apreacted!!!
My uncle owns a penthouse in the Beachclub, keeps his boat at the Sportsman Marina at Orange beach http://www.sportsmanmarina.com/ . You can even do a temp dockage while you are there. The orange beach jetties are full of fish, pompano, trout, mangrove snappers and tons of sheaphead! Go see these guys and they will set you up right http://www.jmtackle.com/. You can see about 25 rigs right off the beach, and all of them hold fish.
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Thanks for the info SF cant wait to try them! Hope to post good results next week.I printed all the regs last night off the Gulf Fed. website.Hope we can figure out all the types of grouper.
I think Gags are open now. Red Grouper should be as well. The thing is, the gulf has almost no natural bottom/structure. …so you will be relegated to public reefs/#'s. See if you can find some private #'s if possible. The rigs that hold grouper are waaaay off. I have been there more than a few times and it is daunting. There are plenty of rigs out there, but grouper like clearer water than many rigs are in.
Thanks Red Stripe, Called today and ordered a commercial shrimp permit and am going to take my net and doors. I understand they are catching a lot of big shrimp in the bay!