Here are
pictures from my trip on June 26. The crew was "Mac" McMurphy,
Bancroft McMurphy and Joel Welford. We caught close to 100 trout
using live shrimp and Berkley Power Baits.
Bancroft was proud of this fine
trout.
Mac had the early hot hand- here
bowed up on one of his many trout.
Joel got in on the trout action as
well.
June 25, 2010
Here are
pictures from my June 25 trip with Mike Clanton and Dink
Lankford. We had a great day catching tons of trout and
some redfish on live shrimp and Berkley Power bait.
Mike with one of his many nice trout
Dink with the trout of the day- this
one went around 5 #'s
The captain with a nice slot red on
a Power Bait.
June 2, 2010
Here are
pictures of my trip on June 17 with Auburn University
researchers. They took samples of fins from several
species of fish throughout the Mobile Bay. They will determine
if there is any harmful bacteria present. The crew was Matt
Lewis, Andrea Larsen and Zhen Tao.
Here is a
brief summary
from Matt Lewis of what the researchers we were doing,
"It is know that punctures
from bait shrimp or sport fish dorsal fins can lead to a
life-threatening disease from a bacterial infection by Vibrio
vulnificus. We were collecting fin clips from commonly caught
sport fish to enumerate (or count) how many Vibrio vulnificus
organisms are on the surface of the fins. This will tell us how
dangerous getting "finned" could be to someone at risk for this
infection."
The researchers
clipped two pieces from each fish's dorsal fin.
The fin clips were put in a tube for
analysis later.
Andrea stayed
bowed up all morning
Here's Matt with the fish of the
day- a 26" speckled trout.
Zhen is from
China- he enjoyed all of the fish he caught including this nice
fat trout.
June 2, 2010
Here are
pictures of my trip on June 2nd with Kielan Smith, James
Castleberry and Angelia Holland. After battling past the Bayou
blockade, We caught well over 100 trout up to 5 pounds using
live shrimp under both popping and slip corks.
The blockade at
the mouth of Bayou la Batre- a commercial fisherman protest of
BP hiring practices
James with one
of his many nice trout.
Not Keilan's
biggest of the day, but he still liked it.
Angelia went
back to back on two big trout like this one after catching a
bunch of other nice ones.
May 28, 2010
Here are
pictures of my trip on May 28 with Gaylord Lyons and Broox and
Kirk Garrett. We caught a bunch of very nice trout and some
redfish using live shrimp and Mirro Lures.
Kirk with a
beauty
Broox had the
hot hand all morning- here he is with a smile and a fine trout.
Gaylord with a
huge red on light trout tackle- we had to chase it down with the
boat.
April 12, 2010
Here are
some pictures of my trip with eh father and son team of Tom and
Avery Couture. We caught a ton of redfish and some speckled
trout using live shrimp under No Slack Tackle popping corks.
Avery was all smiles and stayed
bowed up on reds all morning.
Tom with a nice 24" redfish.
April 9, 2010
Here are
pictures from my trip on April 9 with Howell Raines, Jeff Smith
and Mike Bright. we had a great day catching trout up to 4
pounds on topwater and sinking Mirro Lures and over 100 redfish
on live shrimp under popping corks.
Mike with a nice trout that came on
a sinking Mirro Lure
Howell had the hot hand all day-
here with a chunky trout that fell for a top water plug
Jeff with one his many
redfish.
March 19 and 20, 2010
Here are
pictures from my trip on March 19 and 20. The crew was Billy
Richard, Jimmy Costakis, Kirk "Butch" Goeldner, and Terry
"Bones" Kearney. We caught speckled trout and a bunch of
redfish using GULP! and Berkley Powerbaits.
Butch scored early with this monster
on a GULP!
Jimmy with a beauty of his own.
Billy kept up with the others using
a Swimming Mullet Powerbait in chartreuse.
Bones boated this stud while the
rest of the crew did battle with reds of their own
February 6, 2010
Here are pictures of my trip on February
6 with Ricky "the Bruiser" Carlisle. Despite howling winds and
very muddy water, we caught some very nice redfish.
"the Bruiser" with this nice 27+" red.
Fortunately redfish have very keen sense of smell- that's the
only way that they could feed in water this muddy.
February 3, 2010
Watch Captain Bobby Abruscato and Jason
Smith catch some nice redfish despite the recent cold weather.
Here are some pictures from
the trip. Despite some tough conditions we managed to catch a few trout
and some nice redfish while filming with Jason Smith- host of
Jason Smith Outdoors.
Here is Jason with one of the nice redfish that we caught using
GULP! Crazy Legs Jerks Shads
Cameraman Vania hides out from the cold February air as we burn
across Portersville Bay.
