For what it’s worth just avoid Mobile Bay for fishing rn

Of course someone will come in saying they are killing them or something

Sounds like you caught a bunch there

Well, the Mobile River peaked ~5 days ago from the last big rain event a few weeks back. A lot of that water came from the Tombigbee which is slammed with sediment. Give it a few more days to flush out and it’ll be back to normal. What charter is taking someone’s money right now in these conditions?

Just go fish the ICWW in Gulf Shores if you want inshore.

Late winter and early spring mobile bay is typically the color of dirt. Try bayous and creeks in the perdido bay/bay la launch/wolf Bay Area. Not what it used to be but still can find some good size trout there in decent numbers particularly in March. Ingram’s, stone quarry, soldiers creek would be the places I would hit first.

This has been the pattern for centuries.

Have you considered the possibly that the fish know you’re after them and are talking amongst themselves about not biting when your boat is nearby?

Biggest trout I ever caught was in Ingram’s. Just inside the four pilings. March 17. Just a hair under seven pounds. On a chartreuse stingray grub.

In 1974. ??

I have several trout over 7 pounds in mobile Bay but all in the winter.

A few years ago I saw the biggest damn trout I have ever seen caught on the river by the dockworks by the old ship on the port side, I can’t try name BFG or something like that.

I looked like it it was over 36 inches, we were catching 4-5 pounders one after another and saw a huge spash on the other side of those wooden beams then saw them lift that fish out. They quickly hauled arse I am sure to get it weighted. The only problem is it looked like a male and wasn’t really fat. It still had to be 10 pounds