 Fishing
for Specks, Reds and Flounder with Gary Davis
Reds on the Waterway
EDITOR’S NOTE: Editor’s Note: Gary Davis
has fished the Mobile Delta area around Foley, Orange
Beach and Fort Morgan, Alabama, all his life. He knows
where the speckled trout, redfish, and flounder will
migrate – almost before they know themselves.
As a full-time fishing guide, Davis makes his living
 knowing
what tackle and what line produce best throughout the
year.
Another coastal area that often gets overlooked along
the Upper Gulf Coast near Gulf Shores and Orange Beach,
Alabama, is the Intercoastal Waterway, or as we call
it, the canal. In April, we catch a lot of redfish in
the canal. We’re catching redfish on Spike-It
grubs around the bridge that goes from Foley to Gulf
Shores and along the banks of the canal. We’re
catching slot fish that’ll weigh from 4-to 6-pounds
each and 24- to
27-inches long. You can keep three per person of these
smaller reds. The colored grubs I like best are white
and gray or earth white. I really like the holographic-colored
grubs that Spike-It makes because they put off lots
of flashes. I’ll often dye the tails of my grubs
with the chartreuse Spike-It dye. Since I’m fishing
around rough cover, I’ll usually be fishing with
a Mossy Oak Fishing’s 8- or 10-pound-test line.
We can generally get our limit of three fish per  person
in the canal.
In March, I made a new discovery: the worse the weather
is, the bigger the size of the redfish. While we had
20- to 25-mile per hour winds coming out of the north
in our area this spring, I was catching more and bigger
redfish than I was on those bluebird days when everyone
likes to fish.
To fish with Gary Davis, you can contact him at 251-942-6298
or 251-943-6298.
Tomorrow: Creek Trout
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