Fishing the beach in perdido key ***updated***

If you can catch sand fleas on the beach put em on a Carolina type rig and cast in the surf, the pompano love them.


Early (break of day) topwater in the surf will get a lot of blowups.


Gold spoon after the sun comes up

Enjoy the beach and nice water. Don’t worry about fishing until you head back west

to the OP point, gold n silver spoons in the surf early will catch lady fish...
and...they make good cut bait for sharks...
them younguns will love it...

YouTube is your best friend for info on surf fishing, location is everything unless you want to unhook nasty baitstealing catfish, look for cuts, troughs and “deep” pools and troughs between sand bars, find that and its money in rising and especially falling tides, good luck...

please make sure and wear a mask while fishing on the beach.
My family will be there at the same time.
No reason to be a problem and spread this virus.

If you don't have success in the surf (which I usually don't). Make sure to take one trip to Alabama/Florida Point East / Perdido Pass on east side of the big bridge. Its a good location for family to do beach things, and fisherman to do fisherman things. Just be ready for a mile walk on a board walk (cart preferred). It's also a public beach, so you have to deal with that aspect too but at least there's bathrooms and such.

The jetty holds fish and bait fish, with larger fish always patrolling. I've caught every species imaginable including some reef species there and I've helped another guy land an 8ft bull shark. Some of the locals I've met there say that certain times, pelagic can be caught there too. During low tide, you can get pretty far out on the jetty as it's exposed. Fish both sides of the rock jetty but be prepared to lose some leaders/gear.

The pass side is ever changing sand and most times creates a place you can wade out and be able to cast a drop off from say 2' feet deep to 20' deep. There's always something that will take live/fresh/frozen bait.

PARK HERE

FISH HERE

Saw this guy last year catch this off the beach around 6:30am in Perdido Key. Pretty crazy to see. Almost seemed they were fishing for it with their set up.


Wait, nevermind, this was Fort Walton, I'm an idiot. Still crazy though.

Catch bait with little bream hooks with a shrimp segment in the knee deep foamy wash.

Put that little fish on your big hook and sling that out past the breakers.

Set drag light and use circle or kahle hook. When the fish starts running, simply tighten up the drag and the hook sets itself.

If you can catch a blue or ghost crab, those are good baits too.

The birds stalk fishermen there and steal bait, keep it put away. They'll take your hook too and then you've got a reel shitshow on your hands.

My favorite thing to do is just catch whiting after whiting in the shallows with shrimp pieces on small hook with my freshwater ultralight rig. Whiting have gill plates that will slice you wide open, use gloves. With this style of fishing you are usually in a rip current parallel to the beach, so I will cast it and walk with it, bait in my pocket. Can't really do this when/where it's crowded.

Another thing about surf fishing is 50% of people have no respect for your space. Totally oblivious. When people start to move in, just get up and go.

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We always fish the surf in Gulf Shores! We catch Spanish and specks on live shrimp. Get the shrimp at the tackle store at the base of the bridge coming into Gulf Shores on 59. There’s also a really dumbass looking topwater lure my kid fishes with called a “bubble-lure”, damn Spanish and lady fish love it!! You can buy em anywhere around there.

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No shite... a McDonalds straw lure (google it) behind a bubble is a BLAST!!!! Ladyfish will eat it on every cast....and again, for pure fishing fun on light tackle, lady fish are hard to beat.