Thread: first time at dixey bar

This will be my first time trying something new besides fishing the pier and my friend is dying to catch his first red ever and I was going to the dixey bar Friday morning at Sun up. Y'all think I will have some good luck on reds?

Your chances are much better at Dixey Bar for Reds and Black drum than on the couch. Use the freshest bait you can and hang on.

be there 1 1/2 hours before tide change and fish till about 1 1/2 after . i always use live croakers for bait. use a 5/0 circle hook , 40lb mono leader and 1-2 ooz egg weight carolina rigged. i always get a couple hundred yards off fort morgan beach , run up current and drift back with it. i havent seen much difference incoming or outgoing tides , just need movement.

I wish I had the boat to drift out there but I'll be on the beach but have surf rods where is the best place around the fort never did it before

We have fished from the beach at Grant St., ( broken road ), west to the bay. But we have also fished from the parking lot inside Ft. Morgan around to the west to the beach. Just for the sake of variety, we like to start at the beach and work toward the bay. Now days, we might cover only a few hundred yards, cause we ain't spring chickens. broken road is a long walk out and three times further coming back. If you park inside the fort, the walk to the beach is mile or so, but the sand is firmer, so the wheels roll easy. The gate at the fort is closed late in the afternoon/early eve. We were locked in over night on our first visit. We were young and dumb, newly married, and thought it was great! Still talk about it. Never let it happen again.

This might be a little late but Iike to fish 2 spots towards the first bend and cast towards the bouy and where the bay meets the gulf which is marked by the wave activity