Thread: Hurricane approaching- Fishing good this weekend?

[quote author=john g link=topic=1899.msg17802#msg17802 date=1345719314]
[size=36pt]all storm systems in the GOM suck.[/size][/quote]

:yippee: Quote of the summer! :headbang:

[quote author=Jbearden link=topic=1899.msg17786#msg17786 date=1345681697]
Like Brother said. I have never caught one from the couch :headbang:
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you might be able to talk Dick into putting a couch on his new cart and then this problem of couch fishing will be solved.

You folks are way too kind. I was expecting somebody to tell me that I didn't miss a thing a Googan School the first time.

From the sound of that forecast, I'll see ya'll after the wind dies down and the mud settles. Maybe I'll get some crickets and try to catch a mess of bream.

This is what I have learned about storms in the Gulf. Even if they are around Mexico, they kick up a swell in Gulf Shores that muddies the water like Mobile Bay. If they pass to the East of us, it isnt quite as bad.

Prior to the storm, fishing is usually good. In fairhope, it makes conditions ripe for jubilees with all other conditions being right.

If a storm messes up the water, head East. It seems like the smallest of tropical systems messes up our water for days, but not so in Navarre.

With this cool weather and the storm approaching, I would think this weekend would be pretty good. It felt like Oct outside this morning.

I on the other hand will be in Tampa moving my stuff back up here this weekend, finally. If I can get a good wind from the storm to push the Uhaul, I can get home quicker and with less gas.

6am Thurs morning shows more and more likely impact to the northern gulf. Batten down the hatches guys and gals. Seriously I was on the coast staying at the Four Seasons Condo with the pier when Hurricane Ike came in a couple of Novembers ago and dropped to tropical storm status just before coming ashore. I stayed up all night watching the waves roll in and the lights never went out on the Four Seasons Pier. The crests were just under the deck which is 22 feet above the water. It is two feet taller than the state pier and had no damage. The state pier had quite a few panels kicked out and a good bit of electrical and water system damage. As I recall it was closed for about a month. The Four Seasons Pier had no damage and we were fishing in 36 hours as soon as the surf settled down. We had tremendous schools of sheephead congregate on the pier for two days after the storm and everyone caught plenty. There must have been tens of thousands and they were moving in a stream like formation. We also caught flounder, reds, and whiting real well for the rest of the week. If that pattern repeats then the state pier should be good starting about 36 to 48 hours after the storm. I am looking forward to coming down again in early October. I wish all of you good luck.

It looks like the center of the storm will not reach us until tuesday or wednesday, so i suppose I will try fishing this weekend...assuming the water is not a mud hole.

GSPP THIS WEEKEND. Navarre next weekend.

[quote author=Bubba link=topic=1899.msg17860#msg17860 date=1345766161]
GSPP THIS WEEKEND. Navarre next weekend.
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Navarre tomorrow

DADGUMMIT! Every time I look at the projected path of this storm, it gets worse for us here on Pleasure Island.
I really don't have time for a hurricane right now.

Give it a few days and it will be moved all the way to Mexico. You know they dont have a clue where it will be this far out.