Thread: Fishing in July

Originally Posted by CHOCTAW

did you use popping cork or bounce along the bottom around the edge of the light?

Flouro leader tied to main line and a khale hook. Live shrimp no weights or corks. I do real well at night on little lagoon

can I bait and catch shrimp at night from the pier at the condo? I heard that you can use rabbit food and catch shrimp for bait.

I use a cast net to catch bait...I've caught shrimp, squid, small bait fish (alewife, pilchards, pinfish, etc). Walk up and down the sea wall and pier at the condo and you'll catch more bait than you'll ever use.

I rig up a carolina rig (egg sinker on main line, swivel, mono leader, circle hook). Cast it out from pier and let it sit.
You can also fish the lights (it's been a few years since we've stayed there so I don't know if there are still lights, or if they work).
You can also get a crab basket and catch blue crabs for boiling.

Where is this you guys are talking about? Is the lagoon run pier in little lagoon or over in perdido bay somewhere?

The piers behind lagoon run and lagoon landing on little lagoon west beach.

I've had good luck catching various types of baitfish at night from the piers in Little Lagoon, but shrimp are generally not caught out in open water from the piers (in my experience). If you are staying somewhere that has grass beds nearby, your odds of catching bait-sized shrimp from there go WAY up. I've done OK catching some shrimp mixed in with baby pinfish, bull minnows, finger mullet, and baby croakers on the east end of the lagoon, where the grass is allowed to grow up around the edge of the water. Low light conditions are ideal - during the heat of the day, you may have to get your net practically *IN* the grass to catch any shrimp.

Others are more experienced at cast-netting and may have different experiences, but I have never been able to catch enough shrimp to avoid buying shrimp, if my goal was to fish exclusively with live shrimp. Does that make sense? In other words, I catch 4 or 5 shrimp mixed in with a variety of other things. I've never been able to catch a whole mess of shrimp before, but I'm just a "googan" Tennessee boy with relatively low experience in the fine art of bait-catching.

I only get down once a year right now. Kids in school son will be a senior next year daughter a freshman. SoI pick up any info I can and all is appreciated. Thanks to all of you on this site it is so helpful!

Hi guys,
Is there a place in Gulf Shores that I can rent one of those two man boats that I can put a trolling motor on?