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OUTDOORS AND RECREATION

One week into Kentuck-y’s 23-day spring turkeyseason, hunters hadchecked 19,401 birds. Muh-lenberg County surren-dered the most with 498.Logan and Hardin were thenext-highest with 479 and439.

Fayette County had giv-en up the fewest turkeys,32. Hunters had checkedonly 33 in rural FultonCounty in extreme WesternKentucky. That low num-ber probably is a byprod-uct of last year’s extensiveflooding in that MississippiRiver border county. As ofFriday, 64 turkeys had beenchecked from JeffersonCounty.

Only about 6 percent(1,207 of19,401) of the birdsthat had been checkedthrough Friday were killedon public lands. The DanielBoone National Forest hadsurrendered 409, and 111had been checked from thePeabody Wildlife Manage-ment Area.

Kentucky’s season runsthrough May 6. The limit istwo male turkeys or birdswith visible beards. Onlyone may be taken per day.

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GULF SHORES, Ala.

Fishing options onthis narrow spitof white sand,where Alabamasqueezes its way

to the Gulf of Mexico be-tween Florida and Missis-sippi, range from brackishcreeks and saltwater baysto the deep and seeminglyendless waters of the Gulf.

Fishing is big businesshere. Charter boats arenearly as numerous as thehigh-rise condominiumsthat flank much of thebeachfront, and the fish-ing offshore and inshoreoften is terrific.

However, if you want toknow where the locals fish,stop at the pier.

That’s the Gulf StatePark Pier, a 1,540-foot-long(slightly more than a quar-ter-mile) concrete andwood monster that openedin 2009 to replace the 825-foot wooden pier that hadserved fishermen since1968. That one survived alashing by Hurricane Fre-deric in 1979, only to bebattered beyond repair byIvan in 1994.

The new one probablyisn’t hurricane-proof ei-ther, but it was designedwith triple-digit winds inmind. It’s about 20 feetabove the water to avoidswamping from a stormsurge, and the woodendecking is built to blow outin a powerful wind whilethe concrete framinghopefully would remain in-tact. No one here wants tofind out if this design strat-egy will work.

The weather wasn’t aworry last week, althoughthe wind was howling withenough muscle to keepmost boaters inshore. Onthe pier — where you canbuy bait and a license andeven rent a rod ($1.50 perhour) — both the atmos-phere and attitude werelight and breezy. The fish-ing never is quite as goodas it was yesterday, but it’sstill pretty good.

“The first time I washere I caught a cobia,” said19-year-old Monte Jenner,who recently relocated tothe Alabama Gulf Coastfrom Arizona for work as asheetrock hanger. Jenner,

cleaning stations and rest-rooms, a snack bar and baitshop. Anglers also can payby the week ($40), month($80), semi-annually ($160)or annually ($320).

For more informationgo to www.alapark.com/gulfstate.

» The previous after-noon I fished with Capt.Tommy Price, who limitshis angling to inshore wa-ters. It’s all saltwater,though, and the primarytargets are redfish, whitetrout and speckled troutalong with an occasionalflounder. In summer theyalso catch black snapper.

He uses light tackle andlive bait for both anglingveterans and first-timefishermen.

We had a slow afternoonfishing under a bright sunat slack tide, landing ahandful of redfish andtrout.

“These conditions aretough,” Price said as mateA.J. Baker, an Army veter-an now working toward hisown captain’s license,hauled in the anchor. “Weusually have our tide mov-ing in or out. The fish like itbetter when it’s moving.”

Contact Price at dock-sidefishing@yahoo.com or(251) 379-9358.

hooked three cobia andfailed to land any of them.They are so strong.”

Just then another fish-erman hooked a strong-running fish that the an-gler excitedly assumedwas a cobia. Allisonwatched the bend in therod and the run of the lineand announced it probablywas a mackerel, but beforethe angler could retrievesome line the fish brokeoff.

That excitement wasfollowed by the landing ofanother king mackerel.Chung Kao, who said he’sfrom Birmingham, Ala.,hoisted the fish off thedeck, estimated it weighed“about 20 pounds” andheaded for a cleaning ta-ble.

Allison said king mack-erel typically follow thestrike with an electrifyingrun capable of triggeringan addiction that prompt-ed his warning: “If bassfishermen come downhere and catch a king,they’ll never go back tobass.”

Jenner suddenly ap-peared holding a two-pound Spanish mackerel.

“You catch that?” askedAllison, who obviously is awell-known fixture on thepier. “It’s a nice fish.”

The pier, which is partof the 6,150-acre Gulf StatePark, has a friendly, neigh-borhood feel about it. It’sopen 24 hours every dayexcept Christmas. It costs$8 a day to fish ($2 forsightseers) and includes

lived in Pensacola (Flori-da) for 20 years, but I al-ways came here to fish be-cause the people are sonice here. And the fishingis good.”

It was good to him onthis overcast, windy day.Allison, who like most ex-perienced pier anglershauls his gear in some-thing resembling an adult-sized coaster wagon, wres-tled a 12½-pound kingmackerel onto the pier butwas bemoaning a cobiahe’d lost a few days earlier.

“I usually go after thekings,” he said, explainingthat “sight feeders” (Span-ish mackerel, cobia andking mackerel) follow thebaitfish migration, typi-cally arriving when watertemperatures reach the68-70-degree range. “Ifought (the cobia) for 90minutes. In the 29 yearsI’ve been fishing here I’ve

who was fishing with girl-friend Denise Winfrey,was cutting on a catfish atone of the pier’s cleaningtables.

About 100 yards away,12-year-old Braden Clem-ent also was wrestling witha saltwater catfish, whichresembles its freshwatercousins but is armed withspines that can inflict apainful and poisonousprick.

“The cobia was lastweek,” Jenner said. “Ihadn’t caught anything to-day. Somebody gave methis. This is only the thirdtime I’ve fished here, butI’m going to be fishinghere all the time.”

He’ll need persistenceto match the fishing habitsof David Allison, an archi-tect who moved to the GulfCoast from Tennessee inthe 1980s and never lookedback. Allison said thatwhen the economic down-turn brought the localbuilding market to a nearstandstill, his architectur-al work also came to a halt.He’s since started makingcustom casting nets, whichhe sells online at www.alli-soncastnets.com.

His new line of workseems to be working outpretty well and probablyleaves more time for fish-ing.

“I’ve been fishing here(at the pier) for 29 years,”said Allison, 71, whose sun-bronzed face was high-lighted by a closely clippedgray beard. “I fish herepretty much all the time. I

The 1,540-foot Gulf State Park Pier, which opened in 2009, is built to survive a hurricane, though it might lose its decking. The previous one lasted 26years until Ivan blew through in 1994. PHOTOS BY GARY GARTH/SPECIAL TO THE COURIER-JOURNAL

PEERLESSPLACE TO

WET A LINEGulf Shores pier draws a sociable crowd

By Gary Garth | Special to The Courier-Journal

Transplanted ArizonanMonte Jenner works on acatfish at one of thecleaning stations.

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