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Boat ramp Fishing spot Marina Bait/Tackle Pier

1 Upper Bryant’s/Tensaw Lake

2 Lower Bryant’s 3 Live Oak 4 Cliff’s Landing 5 Perkin’s Landing 6 Buzbee’s

Fish Camp 7 Scott’s Landing 8 Meaher

State Park 9 Chocolotta Ramp 10 Tensaw Ramp 11 Navco/Luscher Park 12 McNally Park 13 Hoppe’s Fish Camp

14 MemoriesFish Camp

15 Heron Bay/Jemison’s

16 Billy Goat Hole 17 Little Billy Goat Hole 18 Fort Morgan Barge 19 Fort Morgan Marina 20 The Pines 21 Cotton Bayou 22 Boggy Point 23 Palmetto Creek 24 Wolf Bay 25 Bon Secour Lodge 26 Viewpoint 27 Fish River Marina 28 Mullet Point 29 Pier Street

30 Mayday 31 Canal Park

Boat Camp 32 Dead Lake/

River Delta Marina 33 Gulf State Park Pier 34 Bates Lake 35 Quint’s

Sporting Goods 36 Fish’n Fever 37 Ross’ Rod and

Reel Repair 38 Souther-N-Bama 39 Shirley’s 40 J&M Tackle/

Rod Room 41 Fisherman’s Discount

42 Dave’s Seafood 43 Autrey’s 44 Dauphin Island Pier 45 Fairhope Pier 46 Cedar Point 47 Gravine Island 48 King’s Battery 49 Pass Picada 50 Choctaw Pass Reef 51 Brookley Hole 52 Bender-Austal Reef 53 Denton Reef 54 The Shoals 55 Lynn Boykin Reef 56 Dixey Bar 57 Navy Cove 58 Shell Banks Reef 59 Perdido Pass

60 Ono Island 61 Fish River Reef 62 Big Mouth 63 Grey Cane Reef 64 Zundel’s Reef 65 Grand Hotel 66 Battle’s Wharf 67 Buddy Beiser Reef 68 Del Williamson Reef

(Daphne Pilings) 69 North Pass/

Turtle Ditch 70 Blakeley Bar 71 Fowl River Marina 72 D.I. Marina 73 Zeke’s, SanRoc

Cay, OutcastMarina

74 Mo Fishin’Bait & Tackle

75 Tackle This,Shoot That

76 Brooks Landing 77 Battleship Park 78 Meaher State Park 79 Mayday Park 80 Wood Park 81 Beachcomber 82 Deer River

Bait/Tackle 83 Aney’s Riverpark

Marina 84 Billy’s Seafood 85 Gulf Shores

Lagoon Park 86 Gulf State Park

87 Lower Bay Barge Reef

88 Rockpile Reef 89 Ross Point Reef 90 Bayou

St. John Reef 91 Legacy platform 1 92 Legacy platform 2 93 Legacy platform 3 94 Legacy platform 4 95 ExxonMobil 76A 96 ExxonMobil 62AA 97 ExxonMobil 63AB 98 Sam’s Stop

and Shop 99 Chief’s Bait & Tackle 100 Hubbard’s Land-

ing/Tensaw Lake

101 Rough WaterBait Shop

102 Delta Landing 103 JJ’s Bait & Tackle

1 St. Martin 2 Old Fort Bayou 3 Ocean Springs Harbor 4 Gulf Islands Seashore 5 Blue Heron Marina 6 Graveline 7 Shepard State Park 8 Indian Point Preserve 9 Wayne Lee’s Grocery 10 Paige Bayou Marina 11 San Juan Fishing Camp 12 John’s Bayou Marina 13 Poticaw Fishing Camp 14 Pascagoula River Game

Management Headqtrs. 15 Cumbest Bluff Boat Launch 16 Riverbend RV Resort 17 The Boat Rental 18 I-10 Boat Launch 19 Riverfront Boat Launch 20 Spanish Fort Boat Launch 21 Pascagoula River Park

Boat Launch 22 Jaycee Boat Launch

23 Old Coast Guard Station 24 Hwy. 63 Boat Launch 25 Bayou Cassotte

Boat Launch 26 Shingle Mill Landing 27 Bayou Cumbest

Boat Launch 28 Point O’Pines Fish Camp 29 Bayou Heron

Boat Launch (A) 30 Bayou Heron

Boat Launch (B) 31 Harbor Pointe 32 Tucei’s Fishing Camp 33 Pascagoula Inner Harbor 34 Ocean Springs Marine Mart 35 Little River Marina 36 Castaway Marina 37 CeCe Bait Shop 70

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The River Shack pier andWood Park have been producing white trout, croaker and ground mulletalong with reds and black

drum. Dog River is producing plenty ofspecks. White trout and ground mulletare biting at the Mobile Ship Channelmarkers. Plenty of specks are aroundGaillard Island and the TheodoreIndustrial Canal. Specks are comingfrom Fowl River Bridge. McNally Parkis holding reds, specks, white trout andground mullet.

Everything is still hitting liveand dead shrimp. Use cutmullet, dead shrimp and squid for white trout, groundmullet and black drum.

Specks also hit a variety of artificial baitsfrom Gulps to Saltwater Assassins.

38 Souther-N-Bama 251-471-4939 7 Scott’s Landing 251-626-5323

Specks, reds and sheeps-head are still being caughton a line south of the Causeway from May Day Pier to the Brookley hole.

Quite a few were caught under birds.North Pass at the triangle is holdingspecks, reds and sheepies. Game War-den Ditch, Bay Minette Basin and someof the creeks on the lower Delta areholding bass. Catfish are coming fromthe mouth of Yancey Ditch at theBlakeley River.

Everything will eat live anddead shrimp under a cork.Live shrimp are working best for bass. Specks are also eating grubs under

popping corks and MirrOlure Glad Shadsaround the pilings.

Redfish, black drum, specks and a few white trout continue to bite in Pin-to Pass. Croaker, puppy drum and a few reds are

coming from the seawall. White troutand a few ground mullet are still comingfrom Mobile Ship Channel markers atArlington. Specks are still under birdsout in Mobile Bay and at the golf courseat Brookley.

Live and dead shrimp for everything. Specks are alsohitting grubs and live shrimpunder corks beneath birds.

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Meet the quarryRED SNAPPER

Scientific name: LutjanuscampechanusAlabama record: 44 lbs.,12 oz., 2002Mississippi record: 37 lbs.,11.2 oz.,1995World record: 50 lbs., 4 oz., 1996Characteristics: Deep rosy-redbody, dark fringe around dorsaland tail. Average 2-4 lbs.Range: Coastal Gulf of Mexicowaters near structures, reefs. Eatscrab, squid and shrimp.Food/sport quality: Excellentmeat, throat considered delicacy.

Nice specks and slot redfish are hitting well around the rock riprap andon edges and humps in theTheodore Industrial Canal.

White trout are biting very well at theold homeport, canal channel markers,and the Bender/Austal Reef. A fewspecks and reds are coming fromGaillard Island.

Everything is eating live anddead shrimp. Specks are biting Rat-L-Traps too.

82 Deer River Bait & Tackle251-366-1629

The water in the Pascagoula River is dingy,but folks are still catching a bunch of specks, reds and flounder. The

homeport and Bayou Heron and BayouCumbest are also holding specks. Abunch of shellcrackers were caught inBluff Creek over the weekend.

Specks and reds are hittinglive shrimp and croaker best, though a few are coming on opening night- and gold-color grubs.

Flounder are eating bull minnowsand Gulps.

9 Wayne Lee’s Grocery MS

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