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<div>My dad’s cousin was pulling an anchor up on the bow of his bay boat when he lost his footing this September. He fell head first 3-4 ft. 1-2 ft of water into mud. He’s now paralyzed from the chest down. It might not feel like it, but you got lucky. </div>
Here’s another option as well, also cheap enough to buy a couple
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17-19″ is a damn respectable trout, especially in these conditions.
Respect for wade fishing 50 degree water.
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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!
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I caught my biggest trout this year and would agree with @Devin , Lake Ponchartrain certainly was much more productive than years past, but everywhere else seemed about the same.
I think the Saltening definitely contributed. We were catching easy limits of slot reds in the middle of summer off the rigs in Pontchartrain so I knew this fall/winter was gonna be good.
But I think what was the biggest contributor was the higher temps. The water temps hovering as high as they have along with an abundance of bait make it easier imho to target them and keeps them inside longer.
Usually around December I’m on my Sheepshead/Redfish grind but I found myself still waking up super early to chase trout up until last week.
That being said most of my summer/fall was filled traveling for work and chasing tarpon. I never really got skunked, even when I rolled without a solid plan.
Also Lake Catherine, my favorite honey hole, is usually throwback city by this time, but I caught a limit of 15″+ trout Wednesday along with a couple slot reds (which I never really catch there).
Maybe it’s anecdotal or perhaps I’m becoming a better angler, but in the past if I wanted to catch larger trout I traveled to the barrier islands or out of state and this was the first year I felt neither was really necessary(although I still did).
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Just realized I completely misread your question with this beer in my non typing hand. Definitely Delacroix. Same strategy.
I just have bull reds on the brain.
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Its one of those days you wish you had a cast net on board.
Or a battery, jumper cables, and steel pole.
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If you start guiding again, I’ll be your first client.
But I wanna go for tarpon, on GNARTOOTH.
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Just because I’m thrifty that DOES NOT make me desperate!!
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“Used to, as a fishing guide east of the river, you never solely targeted redfish. If you did, you were seen as being a pussy.”
I laughed, butttttttttttt c’mon dude. Who gives AF what anyone thinks?
I think most of us on here have full freezers year round or catch what we need for dinner that night and release the rest.
Trout are great; they’re technical, finicky, big ones make for a nice trophy, and if you’re keeping, they are super easy to clean with no real blood lines, and you can keep 3 times as many per person. But being honest here, other states laugh at us.
My eyes were opened when I went to Virginia Beach and told them a big trout here was 20+”. These guys regularly catch 25-30″ trout. And why do we hold them in such regard?
Is it a throw to the “way it was”, before the MRGO, the Bonnet Carre massacre, pogey boats, and other ecological bogey mans that destroyed our big trout fishery?
Why is Trout > Redfish for guides here. I have to say it’s scarcity and they have a propensity of throwing the hook before you land them similar to a bass.
At this point it’s saltwater bass fishing. Which BTW, I LOVE BASS FISHING.
If you gave me the option of a trip to catch an 8lb. bass or and 8 lb. trout I really don’t know which I would go for.
Is it the fight? the jumping/head shakes? the feeling knowing you have a giant but it hasn’t come to the surface yet?
Whereas a red, while annoying if you wanna just catch trout due to the time it takes to get to the boat or the anticipation that it was a trophy trout, is actually a harder fighting fish and if you’re in a small boat or pond makes it really technical, especially if you’re trying not to spook other fish.
So to each they’re own.
Sight-fishing 101, Gnar-tooth, and countless reports on the joys of sight-fishing tell me you enjoy this style of fishing, but I’m gonna say your rub with it is those that keep the fish that is already over fished.
I’d say a large number(not-all) of those that sight-fish reds in ponds are C&R anglers, especially the fly fish poling skiff guys. I think it’s becoming more popular to release them, and a great example of this is Marshes and Hills with Ty Hillman (probably the best sight-fishing YT channel to date).
I still see the dock kill shots, which from what I’ve seen is how these guides market themselves, and I don’t think that will go out of style anytime soon.
Just my over-caffeinated 2 cents waiting for this teams meeting to start.
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sharks are 100% a problem guy checking in
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Just ordered the book. $14 for shipping so $40 total.
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Everyone has that ex, and if you don’t, its you.
I know there’s no science to it at all. The joke is that it makes me feel better when I don’t catch fish to blame it on some invisible force that I can’t control like that horoscope toting ex saying she can’t be blamed for her actions because Mercury was in Gatorade.
I’ll check out the book. Yes there was plenty of bait on the screen. I have been opening the stomachs of the bigger ones but thus far they have been empty even those they are very far.
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I know my people. 😉
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NAILED IT!
Family immigrated from island Fanø, Denmark in 1860 after 400 years there.
And where do you immigrate to if you’re tired of inbreeding?
MOBILE, ALABAMA!
