re: Mobile Bay fishing

That am bite is nice around DI, at shoals, CC1 and 2, Mississippi Sound etc, that’s where to absolutely use TC colors, but you need to be there at dawn and that’s a long run in the dark for you, when you can really do as well on the eastern shore with any knowledge.

They guys at the bait shops will help you too. They will generally not give you spots but areas to hit.

Also, trout move around in schools in big oval or circular patterns almost always. If you see a bunch of boats together catching fish try to visualize the school where it is going, they can’t turn on a dime so it will be a circular or oval pattern so you don’t have to be on top of them. Watch them, boat one gets bites then boat two etc when means school is swimming that way, if 5 ten minutes later pattern repeats I know that school has a 5 or 10 minute pattern so you just need to be in it. If the back boat gets first bite next then they are circling back etc, probably in a canal or deep ravine etc. often all you need to be in on the end etc. they move around they aren’t like bream all huddled together on a structure, although they will hang on shallow rigs feeding on smaller bait. Watch the water and birds and
Think circles or ovals.They are following the bait, shrimp, pogies, glass minnows, small croakers etc. Mobile bay isn’t really a spot fishing place to me, as even the charter guys will tell you, I limited here yesterday and you can’t get a bite. It’s a move to spot after spot place. None of the charter guys will spend more than 15-20 minutes on any spot if it’s not being productive.

They are so much better because they know the water and have 100s of spots