![]() ![]() A simple bottom-bouncing retrieve works best (Photo courtesy of Z-Man Fishing) WARM WATERS Any soft plastic that imitates a shrimp will draw strikes from fish that have migrated shallow. We caught trout on several more bars on the way back downriver before our half-day trip came to an end at the Fowl River Marina, just off the Dauphin Island Parkway. We landed three reds from the hole and once again the bite slowed late in the season, schools of fish in the creeks tend to be smaller than in fall, and a bit more wary of lures. With either shrimp, pop the cork and the lure hops upward, flexing its tail, then drifts slowly back down-and that’s when the take usually comes. A similarly effective design is the Savage Gear TPE Manic Shrimp, made of especially tough plastic with a nylon mesh in the tail that adds greatly to its durability. It’s a flex-tail lure that most anglers fish under a slip-cork. The next stop, a rocky hole in front of a residential dock, was loaded with slot-sized redfish (16 to 26 inches in Alabama), and they were partial to the Vudu Shrimp. ![]()
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