Thread: what to try for at the Fairhope pier today?

I have a service call in Fairhope this afternoon and was gonna bring some gear with me. Any chance of any redfish, jacks, specks or spanish over there from 6pm on? Can I catch bait with a sabiki rig over there?

Thanks,

David

Jacks, yes. Try to catch some menhaden or use chunks of mullet. I think your best bet is flounder and white trout, though. If you stay into the night hours, you will not catch any jacks, but the sharks will show up.

I won't have any bull minnows for the flounder so will a gulp shrimp on a jighead work? As far as a menhaden goes, do I just need to drift it?

Thanks for the response,

David

Menhaden on bottom. Use gulp shrimp, or just use normal grubs with a strip of some kind of bait fish.

any luck with the flounder?

Big FLOP (and not fish hitting the deck) at the Fairhope pier yesterday afternooon and last night. All I saw being caught by anyone was small 8-10" croakers. All I had to get baitfish with was a sabiki and that did not fare so well, I did manage to catch some small croakers with it though. So I fished with a 6" croaker for a few hours and never got any action, perhaps the water is just to shallow over there for that type of fishing. It did look like that pier may hold some flounder at night with all the lights close to the water, but I did not see anyone fishing for them. Will be hitting the Gulf State pier again late this afternoon/evening to see if we can catch our first king or hopefully the reds will make their way through. See ya there later, good fishing to you guys today!

I catch more flounder there during the day than I do night. They like to get under the pier during the hot hours of the day. To catch bait, you need a bait net or some dead shrimp.

what kind of bait can I catch with the dead shrimp? I don't have a cast net

Croaker. Use croaker for bait. Cut them in chunks of use them whole for sharks/jacks. Cut them into strips to fish for flounder.

Btw, the flounder at Fairhope Pier are nothing like the flounder at GSPP. The flounder at F'hope are fatties. We dont even keep the ones that under 18 inches or so.

Get some gulp like Bubba said. If there's Flounder around the should hit em. I'd go with the new penny or nuclear chicken. I'm just starting to learn the bay area but I've done real good on those flavas.