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Jighead · 07-01-2009, 10:44 PM

OB28,

Don't feel bad, fishing is tuff in Perdido right now. You got two things really hurting you right now. First, I believe all the spring rains hurt the shrimp this year. Second, I fished Perdido last weekend and the surface temperture was 89 degrees. Iprefer not to float a live shrimp under a slip cork, but that's thebest way to catch fish during day light hours right now. You could try finding deepholes (10 plusft) and just drift theshrimpa fewfeet of the bottom.Or, go to wolf bayearly in the morning or late afternoon and try a crankbait, popping cork, or swim bait around open water ledgeswherethere's a drop from around 3ft to 6 ft or more.

I just got off thephone with a friend who's been fishing of the pier at the wharf and catching a good mixed bag. He's using3 inch gulp shrimp on a jig head. You could run on down to Mobile Bay I'd bet fishing is better over there. Btw... The fishing is amazing a few hundred yards off the beaches right now. Troll a 6 to 8 inch shallow diving crankbait. It's not trout and reds...hold on.

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07-01-2009, 10:44 PM	#4
Jighead Senior Member Grouper Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Springville, AL Posts: 1,099	RE: Reds and Specks in Orange Beach - where are they! OB28, Don't feel bad, fishing is tuff in Perdido right now. You got two things really hurting you right now. First, I believe all the spring rains hurt the shrimp this year. Second, I fished Perdido last weekend and the surface temperture was 89 degrees. Iprefer not to float a live shrimp under a slip cork, but that's thebest way to catch fish during day light hours right now. You could try finding deepholes (10 plusft) and just drift theshrimpa fewfeet of the bottom.Or, go to wolf bayearly in the morning or late afternoon and try a crankbait, popping cork, or swim bait around open water ledgeswherethere's a drop from around 3ft to 6 ft or more. I just got off thephone with a friend who's been fishing of the pier at the wharf and catching a good mixed bag. He's using3 inch gulp shrimp on a jig head. You could run on down to Mobile Bay I'd bet fishing is better over there. Btw... The fishing is amazing a few hundred yards off the beaches right now. Troll a 6 to 8 inch shallow diving crankbait. It's not trout and reds...hold on. :usaflag