by Capt. Bobby Abruscato | Jul 30, 2019 | Fishing
By mid-summer, Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound are more loaded with forage species of bait than any other time of the year. This easy access allows anglers the opportunity do some summer speckled trout fishing with live croaker, the best summer bait for specks there...
by Capt. Bobby Abruscato | Jul 29, 2019 | Fishing
It never fails; I wake up in the middle of the night before a fishing trip and there is no way I am going back to sleep. I know I should have- it was my 1st day off after having been on a long stretch of mid-summer guide trips and I was really tired. Still, I couldn’t...
by Capt. Bobby Abruscato | Mar 1, 2019 | Fishing, Product Reviews
“Man, you have to find out what these things are! They are eating them up and I can’t get bit on my favorite lure! About an hour later I get a call back from Jim. “They are called Slick Lures from a company called Pure Flats out of Gainesville.” We had just...
by Capt. Bobby Abruscato | Sep 19, 2018 | Fishing
Popping Cork Rigs and Fall Fishing A tale of popping cork rigs and fall fishing…Two hours into my mid-September charter, I was scratching my head and wondering where all the trout that I had been catching had gone. I had taken two days off and had expected to be...
by Capt. Bobby Abruscato | Sep 3, 2018 | Fishing
I use croakers—lively ones—for bait because the bite “cleans up.” At four in the morning, I was already sweating. I had just loaded up my gear and was launching my Skeeter at the ramp in Bayou la Batre on this mid-August morning. “Man,” I thought, “this is...
