I am heading to Fort Morgan Alabama on the 19th

I was there last year and ended up fishing off a pier and catching what people were calling brown mullet.

these things were the only thing we could catch except I caught a sea turtle by accident, any way we were using shrimp and squid and i threw some lures but all we got were tons of mullet.

what can I use to catch somthing else?

what would hit a top water lure ?

I dont know about saltwater so I am looking for some advice

thanks,,

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When you fish from a pier you're going to run into instances like that always. Fish run by the piers in huge schools that may last 5 minutes or a couple of days. I just got back from pier and surf fishing off the NC coast. Unfortunately the sharks had just hatched and we couldn't keep them off our line. One day we caught around 30 sharks and 1 trout. However, there were times when a school of trout would swim by and every single person on the whole pier would catch their limit. So really, fish come by at certian times, and at certian times of the year. For instance, pier and surf fishing off the NC coast is best during spring and fall when all kinds of fish come in.

So really to sum up, find out what fish are in and fish for it. Sometimes theres nothing you can do. Live bait will outfish frozen baits, so give that a try to catch something different. I'm not sure what ya'll use out there, but here we use plugs for trout, and live minnows for flounder.

Anyway, that's how things work out here. Hope it helps!

thanks for the reply

i am doing some reading on the subject

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The easiest thing to to is to ask someone running the peir, or someone running a bait/tackle shop.