Thread: Hurricane approaching- Fishing good this weekend?

So we have a system approaching the Gulf - Will it be worth :fishing: this weekend? What do you guys think? I have only been down on the coast a little over a year so I have NO experiece with fishing and storms ???

[size=14pt]That is a good question. Now I am no pro for certain, but I been fishing that pier for a few years now. Theory is critters know when bad weather is coming and usually feed heavily. There are a lot of variables at work when a hurricane is approaching. If it gets into the gulf, the swell activity will increase. This can trigger a bite. Like my brother tells me...they ain't biting at home. Bad day fishing....etc.
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Like Brother said. I have never caught one from the couch :headbang:

It can't get much worse than it is, I'd say it could only help. As long as it doesn't come too close!

Don't know about the GSP, but I'll give ya a report from DI, be out there Saturday if the weather is OK.

:fishing: Get Bent!

I just hope we don't get seas rough enough to muddy up the water. I hope I'll be through spraying herbicide up in Clarke County by Saturday and can find out first hand what the approaching weather will do to the fishing. While I'm up here in the backwoods hill country, I ought to look around and see if there is a session of Googan School I can attend to see if I missed anything the first time---Let's see, I need 80# test braid on a 950 Super Spin with automatic bail on a 12' rod so I can throw a 6 oz. spoon a quarter of a mile across the wind---what am I missing?

Well the marine forecast for Sunday & Monday sure suks : :violent
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/Foreca...US54.KMOB.html

Maybe the kings will bite at Navarre or PCBch if the storm doesn't get into the open gulf.
But that saying about them biting before a storm that's in the gulf generally doesn't pertain to the GSPPier (aka mudhole) :spank:

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...I ought to look around and see if there is a session of Googan School I can attend to see if I missed anything the first time---Let's see, I need 80# test braid on a 950 Super Spin with automatic bail on a 12' rod so I can throw a 6 oz. spoon a quarter of a mile across the wind---what am I missing?
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You have to make sure you have 3 lines in the water at once (2 on the opposite side of the pier from you that are not bungied down). All of your tackle must be equipped to catch 20,000 leagues under the sea, and you have to walk around making sure everyone knows that you "know what you are doing," and you absolutely (under no circumstance) show any consideration for the guy who has a stud fish on who is asking you to step back so you can go under his line. Along with what you have already listed, I think this just about sums it up.

Have fun in BFE, and get back soon to join us all this weekend

[quote author=Haywire link=topic=1899.msg17798#msg17798 date=1345688718]
I just hope we don't get seas rough enough to muddy up the water. I hope I'll be through spraying herbicide up in Clarke County by Saturday and can find out first hand what the approaching weather will do to the fishing. While I'm up here in the backwoods hill country, I ought to look around and see if there is a session of Googan School I can attend to see if I missed anything the first time---Let's see, I need 80# test braid on a 950 Super Spin with automatic bail on a 12' rod so I can throw a 6 oz. spoon a quarter of a mile across the wind---what am I missing?
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I think you should save the 6 oz. spoon for the second or third session. You definitely want to add snap swivels, nylon coated leader wire, beads, an assortment of pyramid sinkers from 3 to 8 oz and some Killer B bait (preferably something that has been through at least three thaw and refreeze cycles). Oh and pick up some more snap swivels.

Make sure you pile your nasty stinking bait in the rail so all of us can enjoy putting our elbows in it.And the handicap areas,reserve those spaces for the true professional that thaws out 10lbs of bait at a time, likes to cut up what he catches for bait and thinks 6 hour old sun cured squid is the best bait for them big hard head catfish.The number thing you must do in order to complete googan school, DON'T CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF OR USE THE GARBAGE CANS. Oh yea,I forgot what the topic was about before Haywire derailed it oke1: ,all storm systems in the GOM suck.