I can say for a fact things are not that way in Orange Beach.
I was fishing this afternoon just west of the southeastern boardwalk at Alabama Point East and despite some people in waist deep water 20 yards farther east that my easternmost rod NOTHING was said by an Orange Beach cop truck (drove by twice and waved), or the cop in the Orange Beach mullie car that drove by three times.
And no, I never got a bite in 4 hours :-(