Structure fishing in the bay

GULF COAST - Just before the recent cool spell, I headed out for some fishing in Mobile Bay. Captain Andrew Carter and I found fish in the salty water to the south.

We started out throwing top water lures along the eastern shore early in the morning. The water was muddy coming out of Scott’s Landing and stayed muddy to Point Clear. We tried south of Gaillard Island and found better water there.

We had success fishing some deeper water. There has been a lot of rain, especially upstate, and the bay is very muddy. So, we tried a little bit of the stuff down at the south end of the bay. We fished a range marker. There is some debris and some sunken stuff around these markers. Shrimp boats tie up to these markers and empty the trash out of their nets. It accumulates along the bottom.

The best tactic is to drift your bait naturally with the current.  The water where we were fishing was fourteen feet deep. I had my bait rigged about twelve feet. We just took live shrimp and put it over that structure.

It really makes your life so much easier when you have good boat position. All you have to do is let that cork out behind the boat, put the reel in free spool and feed line back. This is really more of a summertime pattern, in early fall.
 

To contact Captain Carter, call 251-709-6894.