December Fishing Report by Capt. Randy Boggs

Inshore the red fish have been biting quite well on cut bait, live bait, and trolling with spoons. Quite a few sheepheads have shown up around dock pilings and have been surprisingly large, at 4 -6 lbs.

There has not been much action on flounder. Speckled trout are being caught in Mobile Bay on the shell bars and around the rigs with live croakers being the bait of choice for the larger trout.

Offshore in the 110’ to 120’ depths the vermillion snapper are plentiful. They are being caught on cut squid. If you are on a small boat with a just a few people, try cutting cigar minnows in to ½” pieces using a small hook to get the them biting.

Lots of catch and release of red snappers are being reported on the wrecks.

There have been good catches of king mackerel being reported. Most of these fish have been in the 20 lb plus range around the larger artificial reefs and oil rigs.

There have been no reports of wahoo or dolphin. The yellow fins are biting around the offshore rigs - trolling, chunking or jigging. There are good catches of black fin being reported around the rigs, especially jigging at night with diamond jigs.

Capt. Randy Boggs
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