Will be coming down the first week in July and staying at Lagoon Run. Can I still catch Sheepshead?
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Will be coming down the first week in July and staying at Lagoon Run. Can I still catch Sheepshead?
Maybe but not consistently like right now.
As for the pier, you'll see them swimming around the pilings when the water is clear.
But I had very little luck getting them to bit anything. I'd watch them swim up to my live shrimp, look at it, then swim away. Then a few hours later, I'd see someone catch one. So it is VERY hit and miss during mid-summer for sheepshead.
what about pompano in the surf?
I'm most successful fishing for pompano during the Spring. I don't usually target them in mid-summer. If you like fishing for sheepshead, you may do well in mid-summer fishing for spadefish. There are schools of dinner plate-sized spadefish and they pull like crazy on light tackle and taste great. You can usually locate them from the octi. They feed on shrimp and jellyfish. You can catch them using shrimp fishbytes and/or small pieces of fresh-dead shrimp.Quote:
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What EYM said! gotta love them big spadefish!! managed to get 4 on a sabiki at once. they fight great , and taste like a bream.
Thanks guys, can I catch flounder and specks at night from the piers in the lagoon that time of year?
I do well in summer around lighted docks in the lagoon late at night (like midnight - 2 am). Yes - flounder and specs during mid-summer at night under the lights.Quote:
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Yes...in fact, the pier at Lagoon Run is a great place for specks. We stayed there when we would come stay for a week during the summer. I have caught several big specks (5# or so) from the pier there.Quote:
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did you use popping cork or bounce along the bottom around the edge of the light?
Flouro leader tied to main line and a khale hook. Live shrimp no weights or corks. I do real well at night on little lagoonQuote:
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can I bait and catch shrimp at night from the pier at the condo? I heard that you can use rabbit food and catch shrimp for bait.
I use a cast net to catch bait...I've caught shrimp, squid, small bait fish (alewife, pilchards, pinfish, etc). Walk up and down the sea wall and pier at the condo and you'll catch more bait than you'll ever use.
I rig up a carolina rig (egg sinker on main line, swivel, mono leader, circle hook). Cast it out from pier and let it sit.
You can also fish the lights (it's been a few years since we've stayed there so I don't know if there are still lights, or if they work).
You can also get a crab basket and catch blue crabs for boiling.
Where is this you guys are talking about? Is the lagoon run pier in little lagoon or over in perdido bay somewhere?
The piers behind lagoon run and lagoon landing on little lagoon west beach.
I've had good luck catching various types of baitfish at night from the piers in Little Lagoon, but shrimp are generally not caught out in open water from the piers (in my experience). If you are staying somewhere that has grass beds nearby, your odds of catching bait-sized shrimp from there go WAY up. I've done OK catching some shrimp mixed in with baby pinfish, bull minnows, finger mullet, and baby croakers on the east end of the lagoon, where the grass is allowed to grow up around the edge of the water. Low light conditions are ideal - during the heat of the day, you may have to get your net practically *IN* the grass to catch any shrimp.
Others are more experienced at cast-netting and may have different experiences, but I have never been able to catch enough shrimp to avoid buying shrimp, if my goal was to fish exclusively with live shrimp. Does that make sense? In other words, I catch 4 or 5 shrimp mixed in with a variety of other things. I've never been able to catch a whole mess of shrimp before, but I'm just a "googan" Tennessee boy with relatively low experience in the fine art of bait-catching.
I only get down once a year right now. Kids in school son will be a senior next year daughter a freshman. SoI pick up any info I can and all is appreciated. Thanks to all of you on this site it is so helpful!
Hi guys,
Is there a place in Gulf Shores that I can rent one of those two man boats that I can put a trolling motor on?