SuPrBuGmAn
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Took the Zodiac out of Bayou Point yesterday and headed out of Perdido Pass in Orange Beach and West a few miles to the Gulf State Park Pier in Gulf Shores. The pier isn't open for divers normally, but Hurricane Ivan busted it up nicely, so its condemned and closed to fishermen ontop - which opens it up for divers by boat. There is no land access to it, the roads were destroyed as well. Current was moving very slowly from the West and there weren't any seas to speak of - it was glassy on the way out and a bit of wind chop on the way in.
There were large schools of mullet and spadefish everywhere. There were also sheepshead, white trout, redfish(drum), pompano, and hardtails schooling. Flounder littered the bottom and we took 5 of em as well as a nice sized sheepshead, filling the small styrofoam icechest we picked up from the gas station
Visibility varied from ~3' to 30+' depending on which side of the pier you were on and at what depth in the water column you happened to be in. Theres a funky layer on top, I believe from spawning, and the bottom is pretty stirred up, I believe from the dregding taking place not too far off. Midwater was very clear.
There were large schools of mullet and spadefish everywhere. There were also sheepshead, white trout, redfish(drum), pompano, and hardtails schooling. Flounder littered the bottom and we took 5 of em as well as a nice sized sheepshead, filling the small styrofoam icechest we picked up from the gas station
Visibility varied from ~3' to 30+' depending on which side of the pier you were on and at what depth in the water column you happened to be in. Theres a funky layer on top, I believe from spawning, and the bottom is pretty stirred up, I believe from the dregding taking place not too far off. Midwater was very clear.
