Fishing and Football

What a great time to live in South Alabama.  Saturday I was able to watch the Alabama Football team end the day with a shut out victory over the Ole Miss Rebels.  My daughter Emily helped me with a little camo paint job on the little river boat.  And on Sunday morning the temperature was perfect for a fishing trip on the Lower Mobile Delta. At 5:30 when I walked out of the house with a pair of shorts, t-shirt and flip flops, it was a little chilly and felt great.  We took Joe's Blazer Bay and launched at the public launch next to Shirley's Live Bait and headed north.

  Beautiful sunrise to the east.

The fish started biting as the tide began to drop out.  We picked up several Red Fish and some nice Speckled Trout and even put a bass in the livewell for a little extra color.

Blake with a Red Fish

Blake with a Speckled Trout

Mobile Skyline from the Lower Delta on the Spanish River.

U.S.S Alabama as viewed from the boat. 

There must have been 30 boats fishing in the deep hole just south of the Battleship.

We brought the fish home and cleaned them for a little fish fry out in the barn.  We could hear the pounding of the shot guns as many of our friends and family shot doves in the fields around our home. It was a busy weekend and I enjoyed spending a little time outside. Roll Tide Roll.

Joe cooking his "Birthday Eve Meal" in my barn.

The old camo boat Emily helped paint.

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Shelby Byrd

Fishing Mobile Bay

I left the house at 4:30 am Saturday morning for some Speckled Trout fishing.  We made it to the launch just before day light and found a bay breeze blowing.  We launched just south of Fairhope pier and headed south past the Grand Hotel and did a little fishing around the piers.  After about an hour of real slow fishing we decide to try the Klondike Reef.  Nothing home at the reef either.

Gaillard Island, Mobile Bay

Joe put the boat in the wind and headed to the south side of Gaillard Island to find calm water.  After hooking a few small fish we decided to regroup and get out the cast nets.  The mullet were thick in the bay on Saturday and it didn't take long to catch all we wanted.  After fishing for an hour with the cast nets we stumbled across my nephew Chase Byrd and some of his friends fishing as well.  His group was looking to catch enough fish to put in jars to have for a quick snack for the upcoming hunting season.  We gave them our fish and we went south down to Middle Bay Light House.

Bag full of Mullet.

Middle Bay Lighthouse---Mobile Bay, Alabama.

Blake with a tight line

It's important to be flexible when fishing and be able to shift on the fly.  At the end of the day we had a succesful trip and caught lots of fish and enjoyed spending time on the water with friends.

And it gets better, Chase jarred the mullet and shared, so when we go deer hunting don't forget the crackers.

Shelby Byrd  

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