Along Alabama's beaches, you will find a plentiful marine bounty and quite a few of those fish are a great option to add to the table for dinner. For the price of an Alabama fishing license, someone can have a great meal while enjoying what our coastal waters offer.
For the freezer filler, you can find white trout by the dozens in almost any tidal creek or river. In the winter months, you can still find redfish and trout, but sheepshead and small black drum become more abundant as well. Due to the diet of sheepshead feeding mainly on crustaceans and shellfish, they take on a small bit of a shellfish taste to the meat, which will please any seafood lover's palate.
Whiting can typically be found year-round while fishing deeper holes that line the surf’s edge while using shrimp or the available sand flea or ghost shrimp. Whiting – also known as Kingfish – is also a great option and offers a mild, flakey white filet that, when harvested, will please even the pickiest of seafood eaters.
Alabama Beaches boast a variety of fishing types and areas for the angler looking to bring home a few fish to eat. Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are the perfect place to catch your next dinner!