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Welcome Rodney,
I hail from the Mobile Bay area as well and worked in Bay Minette when I was in school, moving here about 13 years ago. All my family is still there so I get back every 2-3 weeks and keep a 17 ft bass tracker there just so I don’t have to bring a boat back and forth. I will happily trade you a bull red trip for a Tensaw Delta bass or crappie fishing trip.
Mobile river is a great place to stalk out large trout. I would target the deep holes right outside McDuffie with a half oz jighead or 1 oz. dropshot on the super deep shelf. I would also look at Fish River, Dog, and Fowl around structure. I also like Bayou Heron and the inside of Dauphin Island this time of year. Not sure when the tournament is but looking at Saturday I would go somewhere protected like Dog River or Theodore Industrial Canal, especially with all the north wind this week.
As for this community, I can tell you that it has taught me a ton about being sucessful in Louisiana and I bring a lot of it back to Alabama. Devin is super analytical and uses special-ops like planning to target fish. It’s work untraining some of the old habits I had of spot hawking but I wouldn’t go back.
CA is a good teacher but he’s also a salesman that mixes a lot of pitches about which baits are sucessful based on who is currently sponsoring him. He really can’t hold a candle to the info taught here.
The great news is as a lifelong bass fisherman this info will really take you to the next level since trout can be just as finicky.
Another good resource in Mobile is my buddy Nathan Rich (Southern Salt on youtube) and he’s constantly winning the MBKFA tournament inshore series.
Here’s a video of us up in Bayou Heron this time of year.
Good luck!
