Meet the˚quarry RED DRUM Scientific name: Sciaenops ocellatus Alabama record: 45 lbs., 4 oz., 2007 Mississippi record: 44 lbs., 1971 and 1973 World record: 94 lbs., 2 oz., 1984 Characteristics: Large black spot on tail base. Reddish-bronze color most common. Can live in fresh water. Range: Massachusetts to Mexico. Prefer extremely shallow soft mud areas with submerged vegetation. Feed on crab, small fish, marine worms, even croaker. Food/sport quality: Excellent Boat ramp Fishing spot Marina Bait/Tackle Pier 1 Upper Bryant’s/ Tensaw Lake 2 Lower Bryant’s 3 Live Oak 4 Cliff’s Landing 5 Perkin’s Landing 6 Buzbee’s Fish Camp 7 Scott’s Landing 8 Meaher State Park 9 Chocolotta Ramp 10 Tensaw Ramp 11 Navco/Luscher Park 12 McNally Park 13 Hoppe’s Fish Camp 14 Memories Fish Camp 15 Heron Bay/ Jemison’s 16 Billy Goat Hole 17 Little Billy Goat Hole 18 Fort Morgan Barge 19 Fort Morgan Marina 20 The Pines 21 Cotton Bayou 22 Boggy Point 23 Palmetto Creek 24 Wolf Bay 25 Bon Secour Lodge 26 Viewpoint 27 Fish River Marina 28 Mullet Point 29 Pier Street 30 Mayday 31 Canal Park Boat Camp 32 Dead Lake/ River Delta Marina 33 Gulf State Park Pier 34 Bates Lake 35 Quint’s Sporting Goods 36 Fish’n Fever 37 Ross’ Rod and Reel Repair 38 Souther-N-Bama 39 Shirley’s 40 J&M Tackle/ Rod Room 41 Fisherman’s Discount 42 Dave’s Seafood 43 Autrey’s 44 Dauphin Island Pier 45 Fairhope Pier 46 Cedar Point 47 Gravine Island 48 King’s Battery 49 Pass Picada 50 Choctaw Pass Reef 51 Brookley Hole 52 Bender-Austal Reef 53 Denton Reef 54 The Shoals 55 Lynn Boykin Reef 56 Dixey Bar 57 Navy Cove 58 Shell Banks Reef 59 Perdido Pass 60 Ono Island 61 Fish River Reef 62 Big Mouth 63 Grey Cane Reef 64 Zundel’s Reef 65 Grand Hotel 66 Battle’s Wharf 67 Buddy Beiser Reef 68 Del Williamson Reef (Daphne Pilings) 69 North Pass/ Turtle Ditch 70 Blakeley Bar 71 Fowl River Marina 72 D.I. Marina 73 Zeke’s, SanRoc Cay, Outcast Marina 74 Mo Fishin’ Bait & Tackle 75 Tackle This, Shoot That 76 Brooks Landing 77 Battleship Park 78 Meaher State Park 79 Mayday Park 80 Wood Park 81 Beachcomber 82 Deer River Bait/Tackle 83 Aney’s Riverpark Marina 84 Billy’s Seafood 85 Gulf Shores Lagoon Park 86 Gulf State Park 87 Lower Bay Barge Reef 88 Rockpile Reef 89 Ross Point Reef 90 Bayou St. John Reef 91 Legacy platform 1 92 Legacy platform 2 93 Legacy platform 3 94 Legacy platform 4 95 ExxonMobil 76A 96 ExxonMobil 62AA 97 ExxonMobil 63AB 98 Sam’s Stop and Shop 99 Chief’s Bait & Tackle 100 Hubbard’s Land- ing/Tensaw Lake 101 Rough Water Bait Shop 102 Delta Landing 103 JJ’s Bait & Tackle 1 St. Martin 2 Old Fort Bayou 3 Ocean Springs Harbor 4 Gulf Islands Seashore 5 Blue Heron Marina 6 Graveline 7 Shepard State Park 8 Indian Point Preserve 9 Wayne Lee’s Grocery 10 Paige Bayou Marina 11 San Juan Fishing Camp 12 John’s Bayou Marina 13 Poticaw Fishing Camp 14 Pascagoula River Game Management Headqtrs. 15 Cumbest Bluff Boat Launch 16 Riverbend RV Resort 17 The Boat Rental 18 I-10 Boat Launch 19 Riverfront Boat Launch 20 Spanish Fort Boat Launch 21 Pascagoula River Park Boat Launch 22 Jaycee Boat Launch 23 Old Coast Guard Station 24 Hwy. 63 Boat Launch 25 Bayou Cassotte Boat Launch 26 Shingle Mill Landing 27 Bayou Cumbest Boat Launch 28 Point O’Pines Fish Camp 29 Bayou Heron Boat Launch (A) 30 Bayou Heron Boat Launch (B) 31 Harbor Pointe 32 Tucei’s Fishing Camp 33 Pascagoula Inner Harbor 34 Ocean Springs Marine Mart 35 Little River Marina 36 Castaway Marina 37 CeCe Bait Shop 7 Scott’s Landing 251-626-5323 With high water peaking Tuesday, things should be looking up along the cause- way in a week to 10 days. Folks are still catching red- fish above the Causeway anywhere they can get out of the current. Specks are coming from Arlington Channel and Middle Bay Lighthouse. Yancey Ditch and the old Shellbank River are holding redfish. Bass fishing is OK in the heads of lower Delta bays like Justins (Gustang) and John’s Bend. Everything will eat live and dead shrimp. Bass are eat- ing live shrimp too. 46 Cedar Point Pier 251-873-4476 The water is clearing with the north wind blowing. Dur- ing the day, flounder are picking up along with quite a few white trout and ground mullet. Popeye mullet are also smoking through. At night, a bunch of white trout, including a few yellowmouths, ground mullet, bull reds and black drum are biting. With calm weather, specks started biting, too. Live shrimp and dead shrimp for everything. Specks and white trout will hit plastic grubs. Flounder like bull minnows. Cracked crab and cut mullet for black drum and redfish. ˚ 101 Rough Water Bait 251-824-2222 White trout are tearing it up in Bayou La Batre. Specks are biting well in Heron Bay, Portersville Bay and Grand Bay, but are scarce in the bayou. Live and dead shrimp for everything. 33 Gulf State Park Pier 251-967-3474 The fishing seemed to slow down after the wind turned out of the north, smoothing out the Gulf along the beach. Kings and Spanish were biting well Monday, but only a few had been caught by Tuesday afternoon. Flounder, whiting, mangrove snapper and spadefish were caught early in the week. Bait is scarce and small. Alewives for everything. Snobbled cigar minnows for kings and Spanish. Live shrimp will work for the other fish too. 41 Fisherman’s Discount 251-928-4887 Fish and Magnolia rivers are fishable, and folks have been catching a lot of red- fish of all sizes and quite a few keeper specks. A few days ago, a lot of nice specks were being caught from around the Fairhope Pier. Quite a few white trout and ground mullet are still coming from the Big Mouth, but the bite has slowed. Reports from the Eastern Shore reefs are slim. Live and dead shrimp for everything. Specks are eat- ing grubs under diving birds. 82 Deer River Bait & Tackle 251-366-1629 The water in the Theodore Industrial Canal is clear. Flounder are biting on ledg- es in the turnaround basin. Nice redfish and big specks are coming from the mouth of Deer River. Specks are coming from the mud- line out at Gaillard Island. Mangrove snapper are getting bigger and more plentiful. Everything is eating live shrimp. Flounder want bull minnows. MS 26 Shingle Mill Landing 228-475-8167 Since the wind has turned out of the north, the Escat- awpa River is back to nor- mal levels, and the bream have really turned on. Bass, crappie and catfish reports are slim because folks are just getting back on the river in any numbers. The other fish should be biting by the weekend, espe- cially crappie. Bream are eating worms best, but will take a cricket. 99 Chief’s Bait & Tackle 251-861-2248 The water in Mobile Bay is murky, but fishable. White trout, ground mullet and quite a few flounder are coming from the east-end jetties at Dauphin Island. White trout and ground mullet are at the Marianne Rig out of Billy Goat Hole. Specks and redfish are coming from around the bridge. Folks are gigging a lot of flounder all around the island. Amberjack are coming from 40 miles out, and king and Spanish mackerel are still biting close to the beach. The bait shop is closed for winter. Live and dead shrimp and squid for everything in- shore.˚Trolled cigar min- nows and live hardtails for kings. Live shrimp or dead cigar minnows for Spanish. Amberjack are eating live finfish. 70 23 7 11 28 27 72 10 16 13 Detail of UPPER DELTA 47 5 32 2 1 100 Tensaw Lake Coon Neck 4 34 Gulf of Mexico Bon Secour Bay Point Clear Weeks Bay BALDWIN COUNTY Wolf Bay Perdido Bay Fort Morgan Bay La Launch Arnica Bay E. Fowl River Heron Bay Mobile Bay Middle Bay Lighthouse D.I.P. Gaillard Island Spanish Fort Dauphin Island Belle Fontaine 67 62 48 58 25 65 64 66 24 69 29 63 Orange Beach Causeway 23 88 51 11 80 83 87 18 56 57 94 93 92 91 95 16 17 84 54 55 59 68 79 45 12 52 Daphne 20 19 30 Gautier Ocean Springs JACKSON COUNTY Cottage Hill Rd. St. Stephens Rd. Prichard Mobile Industrial Rd. Theodore Canal 14 Gulf of Mexico Horn Island Petit Bois Island 10 50 21 73 73 Lillian 76 Middle Bay Grand Bay Portersville Bay Bangs Lake Beardslee Lake Pascagoula Bay Graveline Bay/Bayou Davis Bayou Biloxi Bay Orange Grove Cedar Lake Pascagoula River 96 97 71 Oyster Bay Pelican Bay Magnolia Springs 27 Moss Point 78 8 Mobile- Tensaw Delta 9 49 6 Whispering Pines Rd. Fish River 28 61 Bon Secour River Magnolia River 31 Little Lagoon 86 89 90 Bayou St. John 60 Terry Cove 22 77 Navco 81 Rabbit Creek 85 100 36 53 17 22 8 4 3 Clark Bayou 2 19 Krebs Lake Black Creek Cooling Pond Escatawpa Wards Bayou Paige Bayou Big Lake 18 27 5 Miles N Grand Bay Coden Bayou La Batre Alabama Port Foley Beach Express Fowl River 31 21 33 36 Theodore 5 10 12 26 32 34 20 35 Fairhope 71 Foley Elberta Dog River 15 Vancleave Mississippi Sound 34 36 35 75 37 39 43 38 82 42 41 99 101 37 9 35 Gulf Shores 98 3 40 74 102 100 MOBILE COUNTY Tillman’s Corner 103 Mount Vernon To Calvert Saraland Satsuma Chickasaw 1 Chuckfee Bay Tensaw River Mobile River Big Lizard Creek Dead Lake McReynolds Lake Middle River Miflin Lake Twenty-seven Mile Bluff Axis Twelve-mile Island Big Bayou Canot Satsuma 14 35 6 24 25 29 30 D’Iberville 44 80 78 79 81 46 33 46 33 82 41 46 46 13 Hoppe’s Fish Camp 251-479-8302 Although the rain let up, extremely high tides kept business to roadside service last week. The folks getting out on Dog River came in with some nice redfish, plenty of white trout, puppy drum and croaker. The best spots were around the marinas, under the bridge, and around the no- wake marker. Those fishing from the River Shack pier, the rocks under the bridge and at McNally Park did reason- ably well. Mangrove snapper were plen- tiful around Gaillard Island and the mouth of the Theodore Industrial Canal. Dead shrimp was catching everything. Bull minnows work well for redfish and mangrove snapper. 15 Jemison’s Bait Shop 251-873-4695 White trout, black drum and flounder are biting at Heron Bay Cutoff. The east-end jetties at Dauphin Island are holding ground mullet, specks and nice redfish. The Lynn Boykin Reef continues to give up nice white trout. Bluefish and flounder are coming from Katrina Cut to the west. Offshore reports are scarce. Everything will eat live or dead shrimp. Specks are biting best in the shallows with a bait under a popping cork. Flounder will eat bull minnows. 15