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Meet the quarryRED DRUM

Scientific name: Sciaenops ocellatusAlabama record: 45 lbs., 4 oz., 2007Mississippi record: 44 lbs., 1971and 1973World record: 94 lbs., 2 oz., 1984Characteristics: Large black spoton tail base. Reddish-bronze colormost common. Can live in fresh water.Range: Massachusetts to Mexico.Prefer extremely shallow soft mudareas with submerged vegetation.Feed on crab, small fish, marineworms, even croaker.Food/sport quality: Excellent

Meet the quarryRED DRUM

Scientific name: Sciaenops ocellatusAlabama record: 45 lbs., 4 oz., 2007Mississippi record: 44 lbs., 1971and 1973World record: 94 lbs., 2 oz., 1984Characteristics: Large black spoton tail base. Reddish-bronze colormost common. Can live in fresh water.Range: Massachusetts to Mexico.Prefer extremely shallow soft mudareas with submerged vegetation.Feed on crab, small fish, marineworms, even croaker.Food/sport quality: Excellent

Meet the quarryRED DRUM

Scientific name: Sciaenops ocellatusAlabama record: 45 lbs., 4 oz., 2007Mississippi record: 44 lbs., 1971and 1973World record: 94 lbs., 2 oz., 1984Characteristics: Large black spoton tail base. Reddish-bronze colormost common. Can live in fresh water.Range: Massachusetts to Mexico.Prefer extremely shallow soft mudareas with submerged vegetation.Feed on crab, small fish, marineworms, even croaker.Food/sport quality: Excellent

Boat ramp Fishing spot Marina Bait/Tackle Pier

1 Upper Bryant’s/Tensaw Lake

2 Lower Bryant’s 3 Live Oak 4 Cliff’s Landing 5 Perkin’s Landing 6 Buzbee’s

Fish Camp 7 Scott’s Landing 8 Meaher

State Park 9 Chocolotta Ramp 10 Tensaw Ramp 11 Navco/Luscher Park 12 McNally Park 13 Hoppe’s Fish Camp

14 MemoriesFish Camp

15 Heron Bay/Jemison’s

16 Billy Goat Hole 17 Little Billy Goat Hole 18 Fort Morgan Barge 19 Fort Morgan Marina 20 The Pines 21 Cotton Bayou 22 Boggy Point 23 Palmetto Creek 24 Wolf Bay 25 Bon Secour Lodge 26 Viewpoint 27 Fish River Marina 28 Mullet Point 29 Pier Street

30 Mayday 31 Canal Park

Boat Camp 32 Dead Lake/

River Delta Marina 33 Gulf State Park Pier 34 Bates Lake 35 Quint’s

Sporting Goods 36 Fish’n Fever 37 Ross’ Rod and

Reel Repair 38 Souther-N-Bama 39 Shirley’s 40 J&M Tackle/

Rod Room 41 Fisherman’s Discount

42 Dave’s Seafood 43 Autrey’s 44 Dauphin Island Pier 45 Fairhope Pier 46 Cedar Point 47 Gravine Island 48 King’s Battery 49 Pass Picada 50 Choctaw Pass Reef 51 Brookley Hole 52 Bender-Austal Reef 53 Denton Reef 54 The Shoals 55 Lynn Boykin Reef 56 Dixey Bar 57 Navy Cove 58 Shell Banks Reef 59 Perdido Pass

60 Ono Island 61 Fish River Reef 62 Big Mouth 63 Grey Cane Reef 64 Zundel’s Reef 65 Grand Hotel 66 Battle’s Wharf 67 Buddy Beiser Reef 68 Del Williamson Reef

(Daphne Pilings) 69 North Pass/

Turtle Ditch 70 Blakeley Bar 71 Fowl River Marina 72 D.I. Marina 73 Zeke’s, SanRoc

Cay, OutcastMarina

74 Mo Fishin’Bait & Tackle

75 Tackle This,Shoot That

76 Brooks Landing 77 Battleship Park 78 Meaher State Park 79 Mayday Park 80 Wood Park 81 Beachcomber 82 Deer River

Bait/Tackle 83 Aney’s Riverpark

Marina 84 Billy’s Seafood 85 Gulf Shores

Lagoon Park 86 Gulf State Park

87 Lower Bay Barge Reef

88 Rockpile Reef 89 Ross Point Reef 90 Bayou

St. John Reef 91 Legacy platform 1 92 Legacy platform 2 93 Legacy platform 3 94 Legacy platform 4 95 ExxonMobil 76A 96 ExxonMobil 62AA 97 ExxonMobil 63AB 98 Sam’s Stop

and Shop 99 Chief’s Bait & Tackle 100 Hubbard’s Land-

ing/Tensaw Lake

101 Rough WaterBait Shop

102 Delta Landing 103 JJ’s Bait & Tackle

1 St. Martin 2 Old Fort Bayou 3 Ocean Springs Harbor 4 Gulf Islands Seashore 5 Blue Heron Marina 6 Graveline 7 Shepard State Park 8 Indian Point Preserve 9 Wayne Lee’s Grocery 10 Paige Bayou Marina 11 San Juan Fishing Camp 12 John’s Bayou Marina 13 Poticaw Fishing Camp 14 Pascagoula River Game

Management Headqtrs. 15 Cumbest Bluff Boat Launch 16 Riverbend RV Resort 17 The Boat Rental 18 I-10 Boat Launch 19 Riverfront Boat Launch 20 Spanish Fort Boat Launch 21 Pascagoula River Park

Boat Launch 22 Jaycee Boat Launch

23 Old Coast Guard Station 24 Hwy. 63 Boat Launch 25 Bayou Cassotte

Boat Launch 26 Shingle Mill Landing 27 Bayou Cumbest

Boat Launch 28 Point O’Pines Fish Camp 29 Bayou Heron

Boat Launch (A) 30 Bayou Heron

Boat Launch (B) 31 Harbor Pointe 32 Tucei’s Fishing Camp 33 Pascagoula Inner Harbor 34 Ocean Springs Marine Mart 35 Little River Marina 36 Castaway Marina 37 CeCe Bait Shop

7 Scott’s Landing 251-626-5323

With high water peaking Tuesday, things should belooking up along the cause-way in a week to 10 days. Folks are still catching red-

fish above the Causeway anywhere theycan get out of the current. Specks arecoming from Arlington Channel andMiddle Bay Lighthouse. Yancey Ditchand the old Shellbank River are holdingredfish. Bass fishing is OK in the headsof lower Delta bays like Justins (Gustang)and John’s Bend.

Everything will eat live anddead shrimp. Bass are eat-ing live shrimp too.

46 Cedar Point Pier 251-873-4476

The water is clearing with the north wind blowing. Dur-ing the day, flounder are picking up along with quitea few white trout and ground

mullet. Popeye mullet are also smokingthrough. At night, a bunch of white trout,including a few yellowmouths, groundmullet, bull reds and black drum arebiting. With calm weather, specks startedbiting, too.

Live shrimp and dead shrimp for everything. Specks and white trout willhit plastic grubs. Flounder like bull minnows. Cracked

crab and cut mullet for black drum andredfish. 

101 Rough Water Bait 251-824-2222

White trout are tearing it upin Bayou La Batre. Specksare biting well in Heron Bay,Portersville Bay and GrandBay, but are scarce in the bayou.

Live and dead shrimp for everything.

33 Gulf State Park Pier 251-967-3474

The fishing seemed to slowdown after the wind turnedout of the north, smoothingout the Gulf along the beach. Kings and Spanish

were biting well Monday, but only a fewhad been caught by Tuesday afternoon.Flounder, whiting, mangrove snapperand spadefish were caught early in theweek. Bait is scarce and small.

Alewives for everything. Snobbled cigar minnows for kings and Spanish. Liveshrimp will work for the other fish too.

41 Fisherman’s Discount 251-928-4887

Fish and Magnolia rivers are fishable, and folks havebeen catching a lot of red-fish of all sizes and quite afew keeper specks. A few

days ago, a lot of nice specks werebeing caught from around the FairhopePier. Quite a few white trout and groundmullet are still coming from the BigMouth, but the bite has slowed. Reportsfrom the Eastern Shore reefs are slim.

Live and dead shrimp for everything. Specks are eat-ing grubs under diving birds.

82 Deer River Bait & Tackle 251-366-1629

The water in the TheodoreIndustrial Canal is clear. Flounder are biting on ledg-es in the turnaround basin.Nice redfish and big specks

are coming from the mouth of DeerRiver. Specks are coming from the mud-line out at Gaillard Island. Mangrovesnapper are getting bigger and moreplentiful.

Everything is eating live shrimp. Flounder want bullminnows.

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26 Shingle Mill Landing 228-475-8167

Since the wind has turnedout of the north, the Escat-awpa River is back to nor-mal levels, and the bream have really turned on. Bass,

crappie and catfish reports are slimbecause folks are just getting back onthe river in any numbers. The other fishshould be biting by the weekend, espe-cially crappie.

Bream are eating worms best, but will take a cricket.

99 Chief’s Bait & Tackle 251-861-2248

The water in Mobile Bay ismurky, but fishable. White trout, ground mullet and quite a few flounder are coming from the east-end

jetties at Dauphin Island. White trout andground mullet are at the Marianne Rigout of Billy Goat Hole. Specks and redfishare coming from around the bridge. Folksare gigging a lot of flounder all aroundthe island. Amberjack are coming from40 miles out, and king and Spanishmackerel are still biting close to thebeach. The bait shop is closed for winter.

Live and dead shrimp and squid for everything in-shore. Trolled cigar min-nows and live hardtails for kings. Live shrimp or dead

cigar minnows for Spanish. Amberjackare eating live finfish.

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13 Hoppe’s Fish Camp 251-479-8302

Although the rain let up, extremely high tides kept business to roadside service last week. The folksgetting out on Dog River

came in with some nice redfish, plentyof white trout, puppy drum and croaker.The best spots were around the marinas,under the bridge, and around the no-wake marker. Those fishing from theRiver Shack pier, the rocks under thebridge and at McNally Park did reason-ably well. Mangrove snapper were plen-tiful around Gaillard Island and the mouthof the Theodore Industrial Canal.

Dead shrimp was catchingeverything. Bull minnows work well for redfish and mangrove snapper.

15 Jemison’s Bait Shop 251-873-4695

White trout, black drum andflounder are biting at HeronBay Cutoff. The east-end jetties at Dauphin Island areholding ground mullet,

specks and nice redfish. The LynnBoykin Reef continues to give up nicewhite trout. Bluefish and flounder arecoming from Katrina Cut to the west.Offshore reports are scarce.

Everything will eat live or dead shrimp. Specks are biting best in the shallows with a bait under a poppingcork. Flounder will eat bullminnows.

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