Thread: Something you will NOT see...

on the GSPPier is a trout caught on a Gotcha plug.
OK, maybe once in a millennium ;-)



Pic from Buckroe Fishing Pier (Hampton, VA) on the east coast.
Glad to see everyone isn't getting battered by the storms!

I can remember this being a fairly common occurrence on the DI Pier, but almost never @ GSPPier!

Okay, I'll bite. Are you saying it's unusual to catch a trout on a gotcha plug or off the pier? I've only fished for trout in perdido bay and we didn't use gotchas.


Okay, I typed perdido and my phone corrected it to perfidious. I don't even know what perfidious means, and I've sure never typed it... Not exactly a SMART phone if you ask me.

Originally Posted by ShallowWaterAngler

Okay, I'll bite. Are you saying it's unusual to catch a trout on a gotcha plug or off the pier?

My experience is that it's unusual to catch a trout on a gotcha plug and it's unusual to catch a trout off the Gulf Shores Pier on any kind of artificial. Way back in the day, I used to catch them in the early morning (way before light) on a mirro-lure. I've caught just about everything else on a gotcha plug, including a tarpon that I hooked and got about five jumps out of before he broke the line on my Spanish rod.

Originally Posted by eym_sirius

My experience is that it's unusual to catch a trout on a gotcha plug and it's unusual to catch a trout off the Gulf Shores Pier on any kind of artificial. Way back in the day, I used to catch them in the early morning (way before light) on a mirro-lure. I've caught just about everything else on a gotcha plug, including a tarpon that I hooked and got about five jumps out of before he broke the line on my Spanish rod.

I have caught them off the gulf shores pier on gotcha plugs before , just let it sink to the bottom , saw some kids catch some this last trip we made doing it

Maybe white trout but not freckled trouts. This fish could have been snatched. Time to call myth busters. Awl hell, we have #'r buster ,so it's case closed.

Originally Posted by ShallowWaterAngler

Okay, I'll bite. Are you saying it's unusual to catch a trout on a gotcha plug or off the pier? I've only fished for trout in perdido bay and we didn't use gotchas.


Okay, I typed perdido and my phone corrected it to perfidious. I don't even know what perfidious means, and I've sure never typed it... Not exactly a SMART phone if you ask me.

I have spent many, many unproductive hours chasing the specs on the GSSP and never caught or saw one caught on a lure of any kind. Not saying it doesn't happen but I have been skunked before using live free lined shrimp and minnows on 6lb mono and size 10 treble hooks. Contrast this with smacking them off a private pier at Ft. Morgan and others on Little Lagoon on 3" white curl tail grubs and 3" rigged paddle tail minnows. For some reason the pier makes skittish.

Never saw one caught on a gotcha, but I was flounder fishing with a small Spanish strip on a looney jig and caught a 4lb trout that came from nowhere and ate it on the top of the bar about 30' off the east side. Blew my mind.