That First Deep Sea Fishing Experience

I remember the first time I went deep sea fishing. I was twelve, and my family booked a fishing charter while we were vacationing at Orange Beach, Alabama. We arrived at the boat early in the morning and spent hours out on the water. The fishing was good—we caught mackerel and red snapper, and as I remember, everyone managed to snag something that day. It was a fun day and a great childhood memory.

It also inspired my life-long love for fishing. Ever since that day, I knew fishing would forever be part of my life.

I still love Gulf Fishing, and the Alabama Gulf Coast is the best place for it. There are so many excellent charters and captains, so many options for putting together a fun and exciting fishing trip. Whether you want inshore or offshore fishing, a four-hour trip or a fourteen-hour trip, you’ll find it at Orange Beach/Gulf Shores.

Visit www.gulffishing.net for information about specific captains and charters.

Third-Generation Charter Boat Captain Shares Insider's Tips for Orange Beach Fishing

Editor’s Note: Captain Bobby Walker, a third-generation charter-boat captain based out of Orange Beach, Alabama, along with his family, helped pioneer the charter-boat business in Orange Beach. His grandfather, Rufus Walker, was a mailman who started taking parties on weekends to troll for king mackerel and Spanish mackerel. His uncle, Roland Walker, was one of the first charter-boat fishermen to discover red snapper holding on underwater airplane wrecks and shipwrecks. Roland later carried tires and all types of old metal junk to drop in the Gulf of Mexico to create artificial reefs. He also convinced state politicians to deploy 300 wrecked-car bodies in the Gulf of Mexico, which became the first step in Alabama’s intensive artificial-reef-building program that’s today one of the largest artificial-reef programs in the world.

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August Offers Red Hot Bay Fishing on AL Gulf Coast

Editor’s Note: Captain Gary Davis of Tidewater Fishing Service in Foley, Alabama, has fished and guided in Mobile Bay for 35 years. As Davis explains, “This month, the bay’s red-hot around Fort Morgan. August is a very-good month for catching a wide variety of fish in Mobile Bay. Because the water’s so clear, we’ve had an influx of Spanish mackerel and small cobia that will weigh 3-5-pounds each. You can’t keep cobia this size, but they’re fun to catch and release.”

Read full article here: http://orangebeach.com/fishing/biting/