by Ed Mashburn | Aug 16, 2018 | Fishing
Alabama has some great late summer mackerel fishing. Mackerel fishing off the coast of Alabama is restful and relaxing. It’s a pleasure to cast out a live cigar minnow, put the rod in a holder, sit back, feel the early morning sun start to warm up the world,...
by Ed Mashburn | Jul 1, 2012 | Fishing
Torpedo-speed lures not too fast for Spanish mackerel. Take a very fast, very aggressive and very hard-pulling game fish. Put this fish in an attractive physical form. Then add this fish to several hundred like it. What do we have? Spanish mackerel, of course! General...
by Ed Mashburn | Jun 1, 2012 | Fishing
Those super-fast, super-aggressive masters of Alabama’s inshore Gulf waters are back to make life good for anglers. It only took a few minutes to motor my center console fishing boat through Perdido Pass and enter the waters of the Gulf. The sun was warm, the waves...
by Ed Mashburn | Sep 1, 2011 | Fishing
Fresh-caught mullet, hush puppies and a cold glass of iced tea: That’s summertime living the Gulf Coast. Mullet deserve a new look. The fish don’t have a great reputation with most Gulf Coast anglers. These silly fish spend their lives running in big schools and...
by Ed Mashburn | Sep 1, 2011 | Fishing
September is the best time for catching the biggest kings of the whole summer if you “match the hatch.” The September sun beat down, and even though the calendar suggested that summer was almost over, it felt like July had never left. The smooth swells of the Gulf...
