Got away from the house at the crack of 8am.
The two nearest bait shops were already out of live shrimp and I had to drive 15 miles out of my way to find some, but it was worth it
Not much had happened at the Dauphin Island Pier when I got there about 9:30.
The tide was still falling slowly and the water was slightly dingy, visibility only about 3 feet.
There was a mud line out on the sandbar near the breakers (1'-2') that had the bottom stirred up
It was slow fishing...
A pretty winter day to be fishing though. The north breeze made it feel a little cool, but I was bundled up tight to stay warm.
I picked up a fish here and a fish there as the day wore on, but StClair (a regular) was putting on a flounder catching clinic near the pierhouse.
He and his grandson caught at least 15 (all keepers) up to 3# using bull minnows
A few others did catch a dozen or so small white trout (sand seatrout)each (up to 12") with maybe 50 caught total.
Also there were two nice slot redfish caught (25") but only about 5 sheepshead caught on bait (more were snagged though
Anyway, I ended up with a couple of small white trout, two decent sheepshead (3.75# and 5.6#) and 3 flounder 15"-18" (caught on shrimp).
Not a bad mess though for a day that was hard to get out of bed
Thank You Lord, for helping me make it
