Fishing Dauphin Island

[cleabig]

I'm heading there for a week of vacation in June.  I will not have a boat.  I'm considering hiring a guide for a day.  What are your thoughts/advice?

[Jerry Rapp]

we go down there in the spring and fall usually.  Nice, relaxing time for sure. No commercializing at all.  I have fished in the surf during the day.  Not much anything exciting, at least for me.  Throw out some frozen shrimp and tightline, catch some little drum(redifsh?)  Every once in a while there will be some fish busting in the surf and you can catch some little fish of some kind on a trap or one minus.  Some of the folks say you need to be out at daylight in the surf to catch good redfish.  When we go down there, it is R&R strictly, and daylight will be gone about an hour after I wake up and get the coffee going.  There is a marina on the left side of the bridge you come across to get to the island.  I have went down there around noon and seen some boats come in with some decent fish of some kind.  I have thought about a redfish/sea trout trip with a guide who will fish shallow like bass fishing, but just never done it.  A lot of the guides go out around the oil rigs, but I have no desire to reel up a fish out of 100+ foot of water.