Alabama Inshore Saltwater Fishing Guide A-Team Fishing Adventures with Captain Bobby Abruscato Joey Abruscato and Chip Deupree

June 28, 2008
Here are pictures from my June 28 2008 trip. The crew was Jody Lott, Jimmy Kearns and Jeff Beasley. We had a very exciting mooring catching a bunch of nice trout and some other species including some big redfish.
Waiting for the first bite as the sun rises	Jody with and early trout	Jeff with a nice chunk	This nice red was a pleasant surprise for Jimmy and I.

June 27, 2008
Here are pictures from my June 27, 2008 trip with Jimmy Quint and Jimbo and Holly Grimsley. Despite spending most of the morning running from thunderstorms and waterspouts, we caught over 50 speckled trout and hooked several bull reds.
Jimbo with a beauty	Holly with one of her own	Hang in there Holly!	Thanks goodness for that Yamaha power- that storm was coming up fast!

June 26, 2008
Here are pictures from my June 26 2008 trip with Allen and Brooks Sullivan and their friend Maddie Cross. We had a great trip catching over 50 speckled trout up to 4#'s and some redfish on live shrimp and croakers.
Allen shows off one of his many nice ones	Maddie with a nice one on a croaker	Brooks got the captain smiling with this nice redfish.

June 16, 2008
Here are picture of my trip on June 16 with Son Courtney and Gin Taylor. We caught over 70 trout fishing deep structure with live shrimp and croakers.
Waiting for the first bite as the sun clears the horizon	It didn't take long for Gin to get bowed up	Son with a beauty
Gin with one of his own	Yet another	The Captain even got in on the action late in the trip.

June 15, 2008
Here are pictures of my Father's Day trip with the Brandaus. Russ Sr., Russ Jr. and Adam (aka Mo) caught a bunch of nice trout on live shrimp and croakers.
Mo with a nice early trout	Dr. Russ with one of the many nice trout that he caught	Russ Sr. admires one of his	The Brandau Boys- Three generations worth enjoyed the trip.

June 14, 2008
Here are a few pictures from my trip on Saturday June 14 with Willis, Gayle and Willie Willcox. We caught a ton of nice trout with two going over 5#'s and several in the 4-5 pound range, we caught them on live shrimp and croakers.
Willie with one of early good ones	Gayle bows up on one of many	Of course Gayle caught most of the fish and the biggest one	Willis' contribution to the effort

June 11, 2008
Here are picture from my trip on Wednesday June 11. This is the Brandon Lee group and we caught about 50 trout up to 4 #'s on live shrimp, croakers and Berkley Power baits.
Brandon with a beauty early in the trip.	Harlan bows up	Harlan again with one of his nice ones	Josh (aka John Henry) with a big trout late in the morning

June 9, 2008
Here are pictures from my trip with the Rick Courtney family. The crew was Rick, Janet and Jack, we caught 50+ trout with several over 4#'s on topwaters, sinking mirro-lures and live shrimp. The neatest part was going "against the grain" and fishing shallow during the morning hours.
Jack gets us started as the sun clears the horizon	Jack and dad celebrate a nice one	Janet gets a little help from the net man	Rick with a beauty	Jack had the hot hand all morning- here with a monster

June 2, 2008
Here are pics from my June 2, 2008 trip. The crew was Son and Joe Courtney. We caught 75 trout up to 4#'s as well as some other nice fish.
Joe gets us started	Son with a good one	Joe with a red tight out of the middle of a good trout bite.

May 30, 2008
Here are pics from my May 30 trip. The crew was Gordon Redd, Blair Burton, and John Bolanos. We caught a ton of trout with four of them weighing over 5 #'s!

May 28, 2008
Here are pics from my trip with the John Lewis group. The crew was John and Trip Lewis and Jim Sealy. We caught about 30 trout up to 5#'s.
John with a nice one early	Trip with a chunky one of his own	Jim with one of his fine trout.

May 27, 2008
Here are pics from my May 27 trip with Son Courtney and Richard Murray. We caught about 50 trout up to 4 pounds by 9 A.M.
Richard with a beauty!	Son and the Captain were all smiles over this one.

May 24, 2008
Here are pics from my trip on may 24, 2008. the crew was Willis Willcox, Randy Bryant, and Jimmy Quint. We absolutely killed the redfish and trout on GULP!, live shrimp and croakers.
Willis gets us started early	This was a common scene as we had doubles and triples all morning		Randy with one of our many redfish		Jimmy shows off a beauty
Willis with one of his own		Oh yea- we did catch some very nice trout		The captain gets in on the action

May 22, 2008
Here are pics from my trip on May 22 2008. The crew was Mitch McConnell and Louie Arata. We caught a bunch of trout on top waters and live shrimp
Bobby and Mitch are all smiles after catching this nice one on a Skitterwalk top water plug	Louie was in the game all day	Another good one for Mitch	Louie with a little pompano- too bad he was undersized, but he put up a nice fight anyway.

May 19, 2008
Here are picas form my trip on May 19, 2008. the crew was Son Courtney and Allen Sullivan,. We caught a bunch of trout up to 4 #'s on live shrimp and GULPS!
Son Courtney shows off one his nice ones	Allen Sullivan with a beauty of his own

May 18, 2008
Here are pics from Captain Bobby's trip on May 18. The crew was Jimmy and Terri Quint and Randy "Buck" Bryant. We caught and released about 30 trout up to 5#'s despite a 15 knot west wind. Most of the fish were caught on live shrimp under a slip cork.
Jimmy with an early stud trout	As usual, Terri had the hot hand all day	Terri with a pretty trout	"Buck" Bryant with the trout of the day- this one was weighed and released at 5+ pounds!

May 14, 2008
Here are some pictures from Captain Bobby's trip with Dink (father) and (sons) Luke and "Big " Brian. We caught about 70 trout up to 4 pounds and about 1000 white trout! What a day especially considering we fished in 15-20 east winds all day. All were caught on top waters, D.O.A. and GULP! shrimp and live shrimp.
Luke with the trout of the day	Talk about getting "bowed up"- check out "Big" Brian.	Brian was a member of the 2007 & 2008 State Championship Leroy High football team.	Dink gets in on some bird school action.

May 2008
Here are some great pictures from one of Joey's trips in May.

May 4, 2008

Here is a picture from one of Captain Chip's trip with Ken Cooley. A Great Trip Was Had By All!!!

April 24, 2008
This was a great trip with Captain Joey and Steve Milner, Jack Kopfman, Pat McCown, and Tommy Brewer. They ended up with 30 specs. In the 2-4# range.
Tommy and the Captain	Steve and Joey with a nice trout	Pat and the Captain	Jack, Captain Joey and a 3#.

April 23, 2008
Here are some pics from my trip on April 23. the crew was Brannon Wyatt and Chris Heck. We caught some gorgeous trout and redfish on top water, suspending baits, D.O.A.'s and GULP! shrimp.
Chris with a beauty on a Mirro Minnow	Brannon gets us started with a big trout on a top water bait	We tagged and released some redfish	A late morning trout on a D.O.A. under a cork

April 19, 2008

Here are pics of my trip on Saturday April 19th. The crew was Allan Cameron Sr, Allan Jr. and Taylor Douglas. We caught about 40 trout by 9:30 on live shrimp and D.O.A's fished under corks.

An early double

Taylor with one of his many

Allan Jr. with a good trout

I met a new friend at the car wash after my trip. This is Goliath- a Great Dane from Memphis Tenn. I was conspiring saddling him up for a ride.

He was a shelter dog and was a sweet and well-behaved "gentle giant".

April 17, 2008
Here are pics from my trip on April 17th. The crew was the father and son team of Dr. Rick and Rich "Cold Blooded" Rutlin. Despite 15-20 knot winds, we caught a bunch of nice trout in a bunch of places using top waters, Berkley Power shrimp and GULP! shrimp.
Dr. Rick gets us started	A nice one early	"Cold Blooded" stayed "bowed up" all day	This one brought out a smile

April 16, 2008
Here are pics of my trip on April 16th with Johnny McLelland. We caught over 100 trout up to 4 pounds on live shrimp, Berkley Power Shrimp and GULP! shrimp. It was a classic pre-full moon trip as we caught fish just about everywhere we went.
Johnny bows up early	a nice one to start off with	the captain gets in on the action	the small crab in the bucket is called a "Chief's surprise"- he always puts one in with our shrimp to keep us on our toes!

Here are pictures from one of Captain Joey’s recent trips with Julio and Elizabeth Garcia.
Birthday girl and her Bloody Mary	Left to right (Becca Williams, Elizabeth Garcia, a nice speckled trout, Capt. Joey and Cheryl Booth)	Left to right (Becca Williams, Capt. Joey, speckled trout catch of the day and Julio Garcia <financial provider for the trip>)

April 7, 2008
Here are some pics from my Monday April 7th trip with Mobile Press Register Environmental Reporter Ben Raines. We caught a ton of trout and some redfish on live shrimp, and D.O.A.'s fished under a cork.
Ben stayed bowed up all day!	The Captain with a nice one.	Ben with the redfish of the day.

April 6, 2008
Here are pics from my trip on Sunday April 6. the crew was father and son team of Chandler and Chandler. We caught some nice trout and a giant redfish on GULP! and D.O.A.'s under a cork.
Chandler Sr. bows up early!	A monster redfish in the middle of a trout bite.	"Chan" with one his trout.	We located the trout by finding slicks like the one in the background.

March 2008
Here are pictures from one of Captain Joey’s recent trips with Ryan Mitchell. They caught speckled trout and sheepshead around the shoals on live shrimp under a cork.

March 26, 2008
Here are pictures of my trip form Wednesday march 26. The crew was the McMahon family, John, Pattie (aka April, Henry), and son Matthew. We caught some nice trout and a bunch of redfish fishing live shrimp and GULP! under popping corks.
Matthew with one of our early trout.	Mom is all smiles while Matthew does battle.	Wow! Those redfish sure pull hard!	John has a little fun of his own.

March 21, 2008
Here are pictures from my trip on Friday March 21. The crew was the father and son team of Arlen and Nick from Dallas. Despite gusty 20+ knot east winds we caught a bunch of redfish and some nice trout fishing GULP! and live shrimp under popping corks.
Nick said that he was catching all of the fish because of his lucky alligator tooth	The father and son team share a smile	Arlen gets in on the action

March 13, 2008
Here are pictures from my trip on Thursday, March 13. The crew was Daniel Robinson and Britt Ladusch. We caught a bunch of trout as well as a few other species using live shrimp and D.O.A.' s both fished under corks.
Daniel gets us started as the sun peeks from under the D.I. Bridge.	One of his nice trout	This nice sheep came from a shallow oyster reef	Britt bows up on a good one	The 29" redfish was tagged and released.

February 15, 2008
Here are pics from my trip on Friday, February 15 2008- the crew was Steve Malone, Berkley Shirah and Brian Aaron . We caught some gorgeous trout on top water, crank baits, jerk baits and few late on Berkley Power Baits.
Berkley starts us off with a beauty on a crank bait.	Steve admires his first of the day- this one ate a topwater	Brian with a good one on a sinking Mirro-Lure	Berkley with another nice one on a Glad Shad
That's a deer crossing the river- good thing hunting season was over as the crew wanted to go get her.		Brian and the Captain with a fine one that fell for a Berkley Power Bait

February 10, 2008
Here are pictures of a trip that I Joey and I took on Sunday February 10, 2008. We had orders to catch fish for a fish fry. Our goal was white trout and ground mullet. We caught about 30- enough for the fry. We also caught some nice speckled trout and a giant redfish. The grounders hit GULP!, cut mullet and dead shrimp. We caught the trout on a D.O.A. under corks.
Joey with a monster redfish on a piece of cut mullet.	The captain with one of many grounders- man those things eat well!	This crew got in on the ground mullet action. The little one's infectious laugh as she wore out the ground mullet was far and away the highlight of our day!

January 22, 2008
Here are pictures from one of Captain Joey's trips. He was with Gaillard (Guido) Teague who completed a Mobile Bay "Grand Slam"- a trout , redfish and flounder. They also caught about 40 redfish and some more nice trout on live shrimp fished under a popping cork.
Guido starts with a nice slot red	Then adds the flounder	And finally a nice trout to complete the slam!	The captain with a redfish of his own

January 18, 2008
Here are pictures from my trip on Friday January 18, 2007. I was by myself for most of the day, but Sean Sullivan joined me for a couple of hours after he went duck hunting. I caught about 80 trout up to 4#'s in the Mobile river delta. They bit mostly Power Baits in pumpkinseed with a chartreuse tail. I used a 1/2 oz. jig head to be sure that the bait stayed in contact with the bottom.
Sean with one of his many nice trout	The captain with a jigged up trout and the Mobile skyline in the background	Sean with a giant white trout	I came across this fellow as he fought this monster redfish near Grand Bay. We took pictures of it and he released it

January 4, 2008
Here are pictures from my trip on Friday, January 4, 2008. The crew was the father and son team of Charles and Chuck Lea. Despite 30 degree temperatures and gusty 20 knot winds, we caught 35 trout and a couple of redfish. The fish bit slow sinking Mirro-Lures, and GULP! minnow baits fished on the river channel dropoffs.
Chuck with an early nice one	Charles admires one of his many trout

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