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 Wade A. Kirk as your guide
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Tide, wind, water temperature, fishing pressure, spawning
patterns, bait movements, bait preferences, incoming or
out-going weather systems. These are just the first things that
go around in your guide’s head. Your guide will have caught all
the fish the night before you go fishing. Having a guide who has
spent his entire life fishing a certain body of water helps to
eliminate a lot of guesswork, wasted time, and, at today’s
prices, wasted fuel. One look at the conditions and your guide
will run a program that he believes to be proven by experience. The strong tides that swirl around Dauphin Island will cause fish to move quickly and your guide prefers to start fishing early and constantly stay ahead of changing conditions. He wants to be in position before the fish get there. Your guide won’t be caught without his depth finder and will tell you that he doesn’t fish areas, he fishes items. Sunken boats, pipes, oyster beds, a narrow channel or drop-offs are his targets. Mobile Bay is a huge body of water and your guide’s ability to visualize what is beneath the surface can mean the difference in catching fish and wasting time. Inshore fishing does have some added options in that there are more species to target than what a lake may provide. However, these are still fish and they are constantly on the move. On the down side, inshore fishing conditions change much more rapidly than the seasons of a lake. Fish can quickly disappear into the Gulf with the next change in tide. After years of fishing the same body of water, each professional guide has his specialty. Guides who specialize on fishing a local river, lake, or bay, tend to become synchronized to the water’s rhythms and seasons. Your guide is braving the heat and going after the inshore fish of Mobile Bay, So… “Don’t guide the guide.” Instead, try to learn. Ask your guide about his process and how he reads the conditions. |
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