Thread: Dixey Bar info

I see "dixie bar" discussed a lot on the forum, and thought I would share some info retrieved a while back.

I always misspelled it myself and just happened to come across this short article. You can read the article in full at the link provided in the citation below.

This is in no way meant to belittle anyone or anything of that nature! Just wanted to share.


"For those who think you have to head offshore to catch big fish, think again. Within yards of the Alabama coastline at Fort Morgan, there is a legendary fishing spot with a name that’s often misspelled.Dixey Bar, often misspelled Dixie, is a shallow sand bar on the east side of the Mobile Bay ship channel just off Fort Morgan. The bar is named after the clipper ship Robert H. Dixey, which disintegrated on the bar in 1860 when a hurricane caused it to break free from its anchor lines in Mobile Bay. The storm broke the wooden-hulled ship apart and 18 sailors lost their lives. The sand bar remains today, but few know of its history. What makes Dixey Bar famous these days is the fishing, and the odds that a monster redfish, known as a bull, may be ready to crunch down on your bait."

Rainer, D. (n.d.). Dixey Bar. Retrieved from https://www.gulfshores.com/blog/2014...-bull-redfish/

Cool, I've fished it many times and never knew its history..

Thanks, I was one of the ones who misspelled the name---just heard the word and assumed it was spelled like in the rest of area that was subjugated to the
War of Northern Aggression.

It seems the name of "Dixey" Bar predates the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression as Mr. Wire referred to it ;-)...
It was named that after an 1860 shipwreck, the clipper ship Robert H. Dixey that ran aground on the bar during a hurricane that year... https://mobilebaymag.com/the-shipwrecks-of-mobile-bay/