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would like to know the pier height from the top rail to the water at low tide (at the end or highest point)....for gaff rope....looking for some, to go with pier gaff's....and have a request in to a diver that does some salvaging offshore wrecks, and finds cut rope and anchors
thanks in advance
I think it's about 25 ft roughly. I have a 35 ft piece of rope for my net and gaff.
[size=12pt]http://www.orangebeach.ws/funthings/371-alabama-gulf-state-park-pier.html
Pier Dimensions/Size:
• Length: 1,540 feet (longest on Gulf of Mexico)
• Width: 20 feet (I think this is deck height, I would add 3 or 4 feet for the rail)
• Height: 20 feet (above high tide)
• Pier house/Picnic area 8423+ sq. feet
• Mid-Pier 65' x 65' octagon
• End Platform Size: 90' x 90' octagon
• 2,448 feet of fishing space along rails
• 45,000+ sq. feet foot print
• Water depth at end at high tide: 28'
• Water depth at end at low tide: 26'[/size]
Thanks ....never thought of looking at the pier website
I got a 50ft on mine cuz other piers are higher.. pcola pier is higher than alabama
Yep and Okaloosa is the highest, I think....I guess Navarre and it are the same height....haven't been on the Panama city one's since the rebuild.....and my diver friend has come up with 2 pieces of braided rope for the gaff's....40ft, and a little over 40ft.....for free......so the gaff's will be complete ....ready to use!!!!!! :yippee:
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Yep and Okaloosa is the highest, I think....I guess Navarre and it are the same height....haven't been on the Panama city one's since the rebuild.....and my diver friend has come up with 2 pieces of braided rope for the gaff's....40ft, and a little over 40ft.....for free......so the gaff's will be complete ....ready to use!!!!!! :yippee:
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Yeah i'm gona goto PC for the 1st time this year ever and navarre for the 1st time since IVAN took down the old one gona put in well over 40 days of ling fishing starting march 1 whooooo!!!!
That's where we would go when the others were down :( and if all I wanted to fish for were ling.... that is where I would be...Panama City piers....they.... for the most part get first crack and I have seen a lot over there....with the good fisherman coming from Pensacola...now they might go to Navarre....but way to far for me to drive from there, when we go out in the gulf fishing....all day....and now that Gulf shores is open(always been my favorite) and closer to friends in Pensacola ;D
I might make it to Navarre a day or 2, with the grand son and a friend of his... is coming to.....that boy is soooooo excited....never seen the ocean before.... loves to fish,.... I showed him some picture from the pier, and that's all he has talked about since :yippee:
he's been watching me work on the gaff's and making the butterfly jigs....he is real interested in it....so a lot of pass off's when i am there....we will see if they can hang on the rail....googan's for sure....especially my grandson....wants to use a open face upside down :poke1: ....gees....not in my boat ....I am kind embarrassed!!! I hope he is broke of that....hasn't been pier fishing with me for a couple years .....didn't want to fish with gold hooks and nothing on them for the bait....and refused to fish after that :boohoo:....he could barely see over the rail then
I could not find a place to stay in Gulf Shores (my time-share) the last week in March so I am staying in Fort Walton Beach just down the road from Okaloosa Pier. I plan to go to Okaloosa as well as Navarre.
I hope the things I learned from a lot of you at GS will work just the same at those piers.
Just wish I could still keep that one oversized red.
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I could not find a place to stay in Gulf Shores (my time-share) the last week in March so I am staying in Fort Walton Beach just down the road from Okaloosa Pier. I plan to go to Okaloosa as well as Navarre.
I hope the things I learned from a lot of you at GS will work just the same at those piers.
Just wish I could still keep that one oversized red.
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Things work a lot different on the panhandle piers. You have to deal with people leaving their rods on the rail and stuff like that. I personally love Navarre, but have not heard too many good things about Okaloosa. I will also never step foot on Pensacola Pier ever again.
Okaloosa is hit and miss, with the fish, and a whole lot of flipper's that you have to deal with....one thing I never liked about that pier....usually good bait around (cig's)....my choice form there would be Navarre....30 minutes....but the cobia competition will be pretty good then too, I would think.
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Okaloosa is hit and miss, with the fish, and a whole lot of flipper's that you have to deal with....one thing I never liked about that pier....usually good bait around (cig's)....my choice form there would be Navarre....30 minutes....but the cobia competition will be pretty good then too, I would think.
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Just take a ladder and wade out to the 2nd sandbar. Then you have your own personal pier.
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Okaloosa is hit and miss, with the fish, and a whole lot of flipper's that you have to deal with....one thing I never liked about that pier....usually good bait around (cig's)....my choice form there would be Navarre....30 minutes....but the cobia competition will be pretty good then too, I would think.
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Just take a ladder and wade out to the 2nd sandbar. Then you have your own personal pier.
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I would like to see that done!! and a ling off the pier is on my bucket list....that is way deep and long too, but will have to come by accident....maybe some luck, as my eyes aren't good and can't compete with the regulars ...plenty of good eating fish offshore any way to take home....just can't go everyday....like the pier
been hinting around about using a ladder on a friends son's new boat for the cobia....not getting to far :poke: ;D
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Thanks for the tips.
I know about all the extra rods along the rail.
I don't mind the shoulder to shoulder for Kings.
Cobia competition will be something new for me.
Not much talk about Kings, is it too early for them.
My choices seem to be cobia, reds, and spanish from old reports.
GO TO NAVARRE BLOOD BROTHER. THE LING ARE ALREADY LURKING AROUND. MS PAT WILL MAKE SURE NO BULL CHIT GOES DOWN. AND MAN THAT IS ONE COOL . LEARNER FRIENDLY PIER. :bow: SPRINGER PROMISE'S YOU THAT. :headbang: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. AND IT IS HIGH OFF THE WATER, THE PIER AT NAVARRE THAT IS. 30FT AND CHANGE , YOU WILL BE OFF OF THE WATER, SKY SCRAPER PIER CUZ.. GO THERE BE PREPARED , AND ASK FOR MS PAT, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. IT WILL BE A SPIRITUAL FISHING TRIP .I PROMISE.WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. :headbang: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee:
Thanks Springer - I appreciate it
I enjoy the company of so many at GS and this is one more example of why
See you there in July
Until then - more learning
NO PROBLEM BLOOD BROTHER. NAVARRE , I DO BELIEVE WILL KILL THE CHIT OUT OF THE LING.WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. :yippee: :yippee: :spank: :spank: :headbang:
This year, I am going to sit in my kayak just past the 2nd sandbar and wait. Last Cobia I had a shot at was a couple years ago. I was out in the gulf, looked down and saw a huge cobia sitting under my kayak. I dropped the jig down, saw his massive head come out and look at it, then disappear under my kayak.
I out a piece of cigar minnow on it, and dropped it back down and watched him suck it in. Set the hook three times...knot on the jig and leader came untied. Never been so mad before.
The time before that, I was on a boat. A Cobia came up to us. He wouldnt hit the jig, so I put a piece of cigar minnow on the jig. I cast it out to him and a crab came up and grabbed the cigar minnow. The cobia then ate the crab that was holding on to the jig.
Needless to say, I have yet to land a Cobia
me either Bubba, on my bucket list for sure, have gaffed a few for others....our day is coming
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This year, I am going to sit in my kayak just past the 2nd sandbar and wait. Last Cobia I had a shot at was a couple years ago. I was out in the gulf, looked down and saw a huge cobia sitting under my kayak. I dropped the jig down, saw his massive head come out and look at it, then disappear under my kayak.
I out a piece of cigar minnow on it, and dropped it back down and watched him suck it in. Set the hook three times...knot on the jig and leader came untied. Never been so mad before.
The time before that, I was on a boat. A Cobia came up to us. He wouldnt hit the jig, so I put a piece of cigar minnow on the jig. I cast it out to him and a crab came up and grabbed the cigar minnow. The cobia then ate the crab that was holding on to the jig.
Needless to say, I have yet to land a Cobia
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I know how frustrating it can be. I was out on a boata few years ago with some friends and one of em' hooks up on a cobia and didn't even know what it was.... :wall:...needless to say all I caught was snapper and triggers(nothin really wrong with that though :eat:)