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5 hour in Early Spring
March 14, 2025 Gulf Shores 1 photo
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Snapper (Vermilion)
Snapper (Vermilion)
Triggerfish (Gray)
Triggerfish (Gray)

Trip Summary

5 Hour trips in early spring are a bit different. The trolling bite is slow if there is one at all. Typically we just run out and bottom fish the whole time. Today we kept a bunch of vermilion snapper and had 1 trigger fish. We released a ton of red snapper and small trigger fish. Surprisingly with the moon at almost a full moon phase, and a clear night, the bite was pretty good with action the whole time.
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Stephen Crews
Gulf-shores, Alabama, United States
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Alabama has one of the finest fisheries in the world.  The state has built an artificial reef system second to none in the United States.  Fishing out of Mobile Bay gets you to the spots with the lowest fishing pressure on the coast of Alabama. ...

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CATCHING VARIETIES ON HALF DAYS
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With Red Snapper closed in federal waters, we are still catching a lot of other varieties of fish on the half day trips. The vermilion snapper are biting like crazy. Just in today's 2 trips we caught vermilion, mangrove snapper, lane snapper, trigger fish and a unicorn filefish. On the trolling for the 5 hour, the Spanish Mackerel are biting really well further offshore and the big kings are moving in. We had a 40+ pound barracuda come all the way out the water biting a big Spanish in half. On the 6 hour, we had a lot of action all around and lost a huge Amberjack on the end of the trip. If you're wanting to catch Amberjack, I highly recommend asking us about the 8 hour trip or longer. The 6 hours are getting tougher to catch them but it's still possible.
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