MOBILE BAY

I was fishing with one of the best Speck fisherman in the Mobile area. We set out in a Stouter Built boat to the Fort Morgan side and started fishing around a sunken barge. The Speck's were hitting live bait, and we were having a ball until the Porpoise arrived and messed up the fishing. We left that spot and went to the middle of the bay, this was before GPS so Joe triangulated points from the banks with the lighthouse. He stopped the boat and he instructed me to throw out a large Croker minnow, about a half pound. I complied and the fight was on, I had hooked a bull red. The fight lasted twenty three minutes, and when I finally got the fish in the boat it was much larger than the slot limit allowed. I had heard you were allowed one large fish above the limit, so I asked Joe if we could keep it. He asked if I had a saltwater fishing license, my response being no, he said it didn't matter so I kept the fish.

HEAD NUT