Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of saltwater fishing from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Lilly Griffin and John Tesney were named master anglers at the 2026 Elaine Rowe Memorial Kids Day Out Fishing Tournament, held over the weekend on Dauphin Island, with the awards…
Researchers with the University of South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab say the common snook, once a rarity this far north, is increasingly turning up in Alabama's coastal rivers…
Alabama’s state and federal waters will open to red snapper harvest for private anglers and state-licensed charter vessels on Friday, May 26, the state’s Marine Resources Division has announced. The…
The 89th annual Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo turned into a record-setting year on Dauphin Island — not for the number of anglers registered, but for the sheer volume of…
Organizers of the 89th Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo confirmed the tournament will go on as planned, even as forecasters watched an area of disturbed weather in the Gulf of…
A team of scientists organized through the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium will lead an independent effort to estimate how many greater amberjack swim in U.S. waters of the Gulf of…
One of the Gulf Coast’s oldest fishing traditions is pressing ahead this summer, with a few changes along the way. The 87th Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo is scheduled for…
A Lucedale man has turned a day of socially distanced fishing into a place in the Mississippi record books. Harley Havard caught a red hind weighing 4 pounds, 7.36 ounces…
Charter boats across the Alabama Gulf Coast now know their window for the 2020 federal red snapper season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the 2020 Red Snapper…
MOBILE, Ala. — A Citronelle man has rewritten the Alabama record books, landing a 132-pound, 12.8-ounce greater amberjack in the Gulf of Mexico and breaking a mark that had stood…