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Recent
Trips/Pics
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November 29, 2009 |
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Here are
some pictures of my November 29 trip with Vernon and Patty
Hebert. We had a blast catching a ton of speckled and
white trout as well as a few big redfish using GULP! Crazy
Legs Jerk Shads. |

Patty stayed bowed up like this all
morning- and loved it! |

She was so hot she landed two white
trout using only one jig now that's catching them! |

Vernon boated this big redfish right
out of the middle of a school of white trout. |
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November 28, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip with Debbie and Dennis Dean on November 28.
Despite cold and windy conditions, we caught a bunch of trout
and some redfish including this 20 #'r that Dennis and Debbie
had to double team. |

We all forgot how cold it was when
this monster grabbed a bait. |
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November 25, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my November 25 trip with John Mashburn, Stephen
Ryan, and Chris Pittman. We caught a ton of speckled trout using
live shrimp and D.O.A.'s under a cork. |

Stephen got an early hot hand. |

John caught plenty of trout like
this one that he is bowed up on. |

Chris and Stephen jab at each other
about who is catching the most. |
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November 15, 2009 |
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Here are a
few pictures of my trip on November 15 with Mark and Will (aka
“Killer”) Chapman and Ray and William (aka “Hot Stick”) Hall. We
had a great trip on a beautiful day catching a bunch of trout
both speckled and white and some redfish using live shrimp and
GULP! |

Killer and
Hot Stick doubled up on these rat reds |

Will
“Killer” Chapman with one his many other reds |
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October 20, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my October 20 trip with Danny Brown. We caught some
nice trout as well as a bunch of redfish up to 25" on live
shrimp and GULP Crazy Legs Jerk Shads rigged on No Slack Tackle
1/4 oz. "Jiggy" jig heads. |
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October 11, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my October 11 trip with Bert and Jeb Jennings.
Despite 20 knot winds, we had a great day catching around 100
trout up to 3 & 1/2 pounds and some redfish on live shrimp and
D.O.A.'s fished under popping corks. |

Bert bows up on one of his many fish |

Jeb with a nice trout that came from
a bird school in 2 feet of water. |
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September 27, 2009 - |
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Here are
pictures of my September 27 trip with the Howes crew- Joe,
Jason, Jackson (aka Killer) and Wilkes (aka the Catching
Machine). We caught a ton of big white trout and some very nice
speckled trout using, live shrimp and GULP!. |

The "Machine" with a beauty of
a speckled trout hat he caught all on his own |

Jason and "Killer' with a nice
speckled trout |

Joe caught this big trout on a live
shrimp under a slip cork |
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September 24, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my September 24 trip with Russell and Alison Simons.
We caught a bunch of nice trout on top water plugs, and live
shrimp and D.O.A. under a cork. |

Alison with a beauty on a live
shrimp |

Russell did most his damage using
topwater plugs. Here with a nice one. |
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September 17, 2009 -
"A GREAT DAY
OF FISHING" |
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Here is an
email I received from a customer along with pictures from their
trip:
Subject:
A GREAT DAY
OF FISHING
Great day of fishing. Guide service was great. We fished hard
all day and caught speckled trout up to 22 inches long. We
caught white trout (very good to eat). We caught red fish up to
26 inches long. David caught little I mean little cat fish (not
much bigger than the crickets). I had to loan David a red fish
so Captain Bobby could get a picture (not really) David did
manage to catch a 22 inch red fish for the camera. We had a
great time and we will go back and fish with the A-Team Fishing
Adventures. Captain Bobby is very conservative about what you
can or cannot keep. Catch and release and protect Alabama's
fishery.
Thanks and Good Fishing
Wayne and David |

Wayne with a nice trout caught on a
live shrimp under a popping cork |

This nice red was Wayne's first
redfish ever! |

David had the hot hand early and
managed this redfish later in the day. |
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September 9, 2009 |
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Here are
some pictures from my trip on September 9 with Matt Lewis. We
targeted redfish using top water plugs, live shrimp and GULP!
under a cork. We caught not only some redfish, but plenty
of trout in very shallow water. |

Matt bows up on one of the redfish
he caught. |

This 27"er had some extra spots and
gave Matt all that he wanted. |
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September 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of a scout trip that I took with my buddy Louie Arata
from McConnell Automotive. We found some very nice trout and a
few redfish in shallow water using live shrimp, croakers and top
water plugs. |

This nice slot red was eating mullet
on the surface and fell foe this top water lure |

Louie with a beautiful trout that
ate a live croaker |
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September 4, 2009 |
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Here
pictures from my trip on September 4th. The crew was Johnny
Garlington, Rob, Garris and Buddy Adamson. We caught a ton of
speckled and white trout on live shrimp and Berkley Power Shrimp
all fished under a cork. |

Rob with an early keeper trout
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Johnny with one of his own |

Buddy caught this monster flounder
fishing live shrimp on a shell point |

Garris caught plenty of trout like
this nice one and never stopped smiling. |
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September 3, 2009 |
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Here Are
pictures of my September 3rd trip with three generations of
Courtneys- Son, Rick, and Jack. We caught a bunch of nice trout
and some redfish using live shrimp and top water lures. |

Jack with a nice slot red that fell
for a live shrimp under a cork. |

Son bows up on an early morning
trout. |

The Courtney group are all smiles
over Rick's nice trout while Jack does battle with another
trout. |
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August 13, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on August 13 with the Michels family- Kathy,
Dan and sons Adam and David. We had a great day catching over 80
speckled trout up to 4 pounds using live shrimp and croakers
both tight lined and slip cork. |

Dan with a beauty caught on a slip
corked live shrimp |

This nice speckled trout had David
smiling |

Adam got a late hot hand and managed
a bunch of trout like this one by using the Capt. Bobby long
drift technique |

Mom was not to be outdone by the
crew- she caught several chunky trout like this one |
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July 20, 2009 |
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Here are
some pictures of my July 20 trip with Son Courtney and Ponney
McLelland. We had an awesome day catching over 70 trout with
many of them in the 3- 4 1/2# range. Live shrimp and croakers
both slip corked and tight-lined did the trick for us. |

Son with one of many his beautiful
trout |

Ponney with one of his own-
this one fell for a tight-lined live shrimp. |
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July 13, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on July with 13. The crew was the Pavlicek
gang along with friend Reid Wheatley. We caught 75 trout by 9:00
A.M. on live shrimp on slip corks. |
Tyler
Pavlicek with one of his many trout. |
Reid
and "Net Man" Nick with a fine trout. |

Brandon "Bam Bam Big Fish" Pavlicek
stayed bowed up all morning. |

Father Jason Pavlicek even got in on
some of the action. |
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July 12, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on July 12 with Gayle and Willis Willcox and
my wife Kim. We had an incredible day catching over 50 speckled
trout up to 6 1/2 pounds using mostly large live croakers.
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I was as happy about Gayle's
monster as she was. Gayle had the hot stick all day. |

Willis even managed to scrape out a
few nice ones when he wasn't netting Gayle's fish. |

Kim caught this 26" trout on a large
croaker. |
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July 10, 2009 |
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Here is a picture from one of
Captain Chip's trips. |

Brian from
Oak Mountain enjoys a perfect day with Captain Chip and hooks
into a series of nice specks. |
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July 2, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on July 2 with Dr. Brice Whetstone and his
sons Cullen and Hayden. We had an awesome day catching over 120
speckled trout by 10:30 A.M. The baits of choice were live
shrimp, and Berkley Power Baits fished under corks and on tight
lines. |

Hayden caught a bunch of nice trout
like this one |

Birthday boy Cullen stayed bowed up
all day. |

Brice had the root beer Power bait
working well. |
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July 1, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures from my trip on July 1 with Lawrence Smith, David
"Pedro" Hart, and Dave Jones. We had a killer trip catching a
ton of speckled trout, some white trout, Spanish mackerel and
sharks. The fish all arte live shrimp, croakers and D.O.A.'s. |

This nice Spanish Mackerel came
early and gave all of us including "Pedro" a thrill! |

Dave got a late morning hot hand and
caught some real nice trout like this one. |

Lawrence went with the big croaker
technique and caught some fine ones too. |
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June 30, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on June 30 with Matt "Ball Game" Sumlin, Ed
Greer, and Tommy Clement. We successfully targeted some big
trout using live shrimp and large live croakers. |

Ed with an early beauty that fell
for a live shrimp fished under a shallow cork. |

This nice one of Ball Games took a
large, tight-lined croaker. |

Tommy got this toad on a
free-lined shrimp. |
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June 28, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on June 28 with the father and son team of
Ed and Edward Hines from Brewton. We caught over 50 trout up to
4 #'s by 8:30 in the morning. Edward even caught a big redfish
on his last cast! |

Ed with a nice trout that fell for a
shrimp under a slip cork. |

Edward bowed up like this a bunch. |

This beautiful red was our last fish
of the morning and fell for a shrimp under a popping cork. |
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June 26, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on June 26 with Jimmy and Terri Quint and
Holly and Jimbo Grimsley. We caught a ton of trout and some
other species including a nice redfish all on live shrimp and
croakers. |

Holly with a surprise monster
redfish right out of a school of speckled trout. |
Jimbo caught this fine speckled
trout free-lining a croaker. |

Jimmy with a nice one on a slip
corked live shrimp. |
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June 25, 2009 |
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Wow! A new personal record for me. My
crew on June 25- Allen Sullivan, grandson Graf and Dr. Bob
Harlan after leaving the dock at 5:30 A.M.- had a 40 trout limit
by 6:46 A.M. What a wild bite! The fish which were up to 4
pounds were caught on live shrimp, croakers, D.O.A. Shrimp and
top water lures. We also managed to catch some white trout,
grouper, and sharks. |

Graf with a fat one as the sun cleared the horizon
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Dr. Bob with a fine trout later in the morning |

Allen and Graf are all smiles with a nice trout that
fell for a croaker. |
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June 24, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on June 24 with 3 generations of Pierces.
Grandfather Ed, father Jason and son Hunter (aka "Killer"). We
caught about 75 trout by 11:00 A.M mostly on live shrimp. |

Jason admires one of his many nice
ones. |

Hunter had a hot hand all day- here
with a beauty |

Ed caught a bunch too, but waited
until later in the morning to land this nice one. |
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June 20, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip with the father and son team of George and
Jeremy Knezel from New Jersey. We caught some very nice trout
and a ton of redfish using live shrimp and GULP! under a popping
cork. |

Jeremy caught this fine trout while
drifting over a shallow oyster bar. |

The redfish bite was as hot as the
air temps. Jeremy caught a bunch of reds including this one
using live shrimp under a popping cork. |

George caught reds as well as
managing some nice trout like this one. |
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June 19, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my June 19 trip with Daryl Palmer, and Jason
Layfield and an old high school buddy Pat Kelly. We caught a ton
of trout using live shrimp presented both shallow and deep. |

Pat with our first trout of the day-
this one was a chunky female. |

Daryl caught this one right under
the boat in two feet of water. Talk about being on the trout! |

Jason stayed bowed up until we
finally ran out of bait in the mid-morning. |
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June 15, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip with Pete, Tony and Brooke DeLucia on June
15. We caught a bunch of speckled trout and white trout on
live shrimp. |

Brooke was on her first ever fishing
trip and this is her first fish. |

Tony caught the most speckled trout
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We found the fish by following the
birds. |
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June 10, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on June 10 with Jim and Baker McConnell. We
had a great day catching 50+ trout up to 5#'s by 11:00. the
presentation of choice was live shrimp under a slip cork. |

Baker with one of his many nice
trout. |

Big Jim with a stud trout. |

Jim caught this one on our very last
shrimp- what a way to end the day! |
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June 9, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures from my trip on June 9 with Bruce and Matthew Rogers.
We caught a bunch of speckled trout and redfish using liver
shrimp and GULP under corks. |

Bruce and Matthew decide this one is
going in the box- he was just the right size to eat. |

Matthew with a nice multi-spotted
redfish. |

Bruce with the red of the day- this
one was a perfect 26". |
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June 7, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my June 7 trip with three generations of Brandaus-
Russ Sr. Russ Jr. and Adam. We caught a bunch of speckled trout
using live shrimp under slip corks. |

Russ Jr. with a nice 3 pounder. |

Russ Sr. "Papa" and Adam with a
beauty that Adam caught. |
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June 6, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my June 6 trip with my friends Lauri and Randy
"Buck" Bryant and Toni and Kevin Callaghan. We caught speckled
trout and redfish using live shrimp. |

Lauri's pink rod was hot- here she
is with a nice speckled trout. |

This chunky red had Toni all smiles. |

Buck and Lauri with a red on the
pink rod |

Kevin and Toni doubled up on this
pair of reds. |
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June 2, 2009 |
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From June 2
with the Todd Ortega group- "What a time these 4 boys from south
Louisiana had fishing speckled trout with Capt. Bobby On the 2nd
of June. Even though he'd been chasing redfish on the
circuit, his knowledge of where they should be and where they
were was dead on! We had our 50 trout limit caught by 8 A.M.
keeping plenty and returning some choice spawners to the water-
Thanks Capt. Bobby!"- Todd Ortega |

Kevin Fontenot with an early nice
one |

Peyton Durand hand a hot hand all
morning |

This chunk brought a smile to Gabe
Ortega's face |

Todd Ortega
admires a beauty that was about to explode with eggs- she went
back to make trout babies!
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May 17, 2009 |
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Here are
some pictures of my trip with he father/son team of Hugh and
Frank Summerville on May 17. We caught a ton of speckled trout
and redfish using live shrimp and GULP under a cork. |

Hugh with the trout of the day
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Frank was not to be outdone- here
with a stud redfish. |
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May 15, 2009 |
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Here are a
few pictures of my trip on May 15 with Randy Coleman and Gary
Smallwood. We caught some nice speckled trout fishing a shallow
water pattern by using top water plugs, crank baits and shrimp
under a cork. |

Gary with a fine trout that was
sunning himself on the beach when Gary caught him |

Randy with a nice one caught by
burning a crank bait across a sandbar. |
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May 14, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my may 14 trip with Son Courtney and Allen Sullivan.
We worked for them but managed some nice trout on live shrimp
under a cork. |

Allen starts us off with this chunk
trout. |

Son with a beauty of his own. |
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May 9, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures from my trip on Saturday May 9 with Roger Pearce,
Campbell Rogers and Jake Bowlus. We caught trout up to 5#'s
while wading with top waters as well as a some nice redfish and
trout on shrimp out of the boat. |

Jake with a chunk trout. |

Campbell with a mid-day red. |

Roger got a kick out of this
nice redfish that fell for a shrimp under a cork. |
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May 8, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on May 8 with Ed McLeod, Jay Fitzpatrick and
Cy Cain. We Caught trout up to 5 #'s on top water and suspending
plugs. |

Jay had the hot hand catching a
couple of our 5#'rs on a Catch 2000 plug. |

Ed had the She Dog working well-
here with a nice one. |

Cy with a good one on a sinking plug
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A pleasant surprise was this beauty
of a flounder |
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April 23, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on April 23 with Steve Lauten and Brice
Whetstone. We had a great day catching a bunch of nice speckled
trout and redfish using top waters, and live shrimp under a
cork. |

Steve with a chunk speckled trout |

Brice bowed up like this plenty of
times |

Brice with a beautiful red that fell
for a shrimp under a popping cork |
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April 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of Capt. Joey's trip with the Leon Herring crew. They
caught trout and redfish using live shrimp under a cork. |
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April 16, 2009 |
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Here are
some pictures of my trip with the John McCall crew from Clinton
Connecticut on April 16. we caught a ton of trout and some nice
redfish using Live shrimp and shrimp imitations under a cork. |

John McCall with an early trout
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John Sr. with one of his own trout. |

Chris McCall had the hot redfish
hand. This one had the rare feature of having no spots. |
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April 15, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my trip on April 15 with Sam and Alex Townsley. We
caught a bunch of trout and redfish using live shrimp and
Powerbaits under a cork. |

Alex with our first of many redfish
for the day |

Sam bows up on one. |
Alex and Sam doubled up on these
bookend reds. |
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April 8, 2009 |
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Here are
pictures of my April 8 trip with George Jones. We caught some
nice trout on top water lures, and shrimp rigs under a cork
despite muddy water and hard winds. |

It wasn't hard to find the fish when
they slicked like this |

George with a nice one on a top
water plug. |
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March 19, 2009 |
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Here is a
picture from Greg Sandy, Kenny Esser, and
Mark Huff's trip with Captain Chip. They
caught 18 keeper specks, one big red fish, and 30+ smaller
specs. |

Greg Sandy
with a great redfish. |
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March 18, 2009 |
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Here are some
picture of my March 18 trip with the father and son team of Bill
and Charlie Hubbard form Iowa City, Iowa. We caught a bunch of
trout and redfish on top water plugs, GULP! and live shrimp.
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Charlie started us
off with this toad on a top water lure |

Bill had fun
wrestling with the redfish |

Here with one of his
many redfish |
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March 16, 2009 |
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Here are pictures of
my March 16 trip with josh Chastain. Despite some nasty weather
we managed to catch some nice trout. |

Josh with a beauty
between showers. |
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March 13, 2009 |
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Here are some
pictures of my trip on March 13. the crew was Ed Rowan and Rob
Myer. We caught some nice trout wading with topwater plugs and
redfish on live shrimp. |

Rob bows up on a
nice redfish |

Ed with a pretty,
multi-spotted redfish. |
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March 12, 2009 |
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Here are pictures of
my trip on March 12. The crew was Andy Desjarlais, John Buchanan
and Ben Smith. We caught speckled trout and redfish on live
shrimp, D.O.A. and GULP! |

Andy caught one
pretty enough to kiss! |

John with the red of
the day. |

Ben bows up on a
nice slot red. |
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February 27, 2009 |
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Here are pictures
from my trip on March 8. The crew was Jimmy Lowe- of produce
store fame, Fulton "Homey" Holmes and John Thompson. We had a
good day catching a ton of trout and redfish on live shrimp and
D.O.A.'s under a cork. |

John with a gorgeous
red. |

"Homey" got
bowed up early and often. |

Jimmy caught
this monster sheepshead on a live shrimp. |
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March 6, 2009 |
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Here are pictures of
a scout trip with Rick "the Bruiser" Carlisle. We checked
several springtime areas and found fish in most of them.
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The captain with an
early one wading on a new penny Berkley Power Bait |

The Bruiser with a
bruiser redfish |

This nice trout came
from the last place we checked. |
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February 27, 2009 |
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Here are pictures of my February
27 trip with Ricky "the Bruiser" Carlisle. We caught about 100
trout fishing a shallow water spring pattern. Berkeley Power
baits, top water plugs and live shrimp did the trick for us. |

The captain gets us started with one on a new
penny colored Berkley Power Bait
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This guy is still kind of hot |

The Bruiser with a nice one. |
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February 20, 2009 |
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Here are pictures
from my February 20 trip with Katie Zizzi and Bill Hook.
Despite 40 degree weather and winds gusting to 30 knots Bill and
Katie said "Let's go!". Go we did and it was well worth it. We
caught a bunch of redfish and even some flounder using live and
GULP shrimp. |

Katie had the hot
hand in the cold weather- here with a beauty of a redfish. |

Golf pro Bill caught
several nice flounder |

Bill won the most
spots prize with this redfish. |
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February 5, 2009 |
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Here are pictures
from my trip with Mobile Press Register outdoor editor
Jeff Dute, photographer John David Mercer, and my buddy Ricky
"the Bruiser" Carlisle. We caught some nice trout jigging in
15-18 feet of water. |
Jeff put us on
the fish and had the hot hand |

John David caught
his share as well. |

The Captain caught this on a new
penny colored "Crazy Legs" GULP jerk shad.
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The Bruiser was not
to be denied either- here with a nice one. |
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January 30, 2009 |
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Here are pictures
from my January 31 trip with Roger Pearce, Jake Bowlus, and
Campbell Rodgers. We hade a great trip catching some nice
speckled trout up to 4 pounds on top water plugs, sinking Mirro
Lures and D.O.A.'s. and almost 70 redfish up to 26" on live and
GULP shrimp. |

Roger starts off the
trout bite with this fine trout on a top water lure. |

Campbell with a nice
one taken on D.O.A. under a cork. |

Jake caught this
beautiful 26" slot red on a live shrimp under a cork. |
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January 2, 2009 |
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Here are picture of
my January 2nd trip with Ed McLeod and Jeff Wilbanks. We caught
trout on top water and some nice redfish using GULP! shrimp and
swimming minnows. |

Ed with a trout
caught on pink Skitterwalk top water plug |

The captain got in
on the redfish bite |

Jeff with he redfish
of the day. This one was 26" long and fell for a GULP! shrimp
under a cork. |
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