Thread: Orange Beach trip

Originally Posted by duck38866

What you fishin for maj?? We headin out the week of the 4th. We booked us a fishn trip, but would love to hear how the do-it-yourselfers do it. I don't know if I would want to take my boat all the way down there. Will the salt water hurt it in any kind of way? I have a 17.5' alumacraft with a 4 stroke Yamaha 90.

I wasn't planning to do any serious fishing, just riding around the bays and looking at the houses and big boats but my motor alarm cut that short. I wouldn't haul my boat down here again for sure, gave up 5mpg in the truck and the waves from the big boats will beat you to death.

Originally Posted by SlabLapper4sure

Dang Major, you gonna have to come home just to rest!And who is that pretty lady you have there with you!There were so many pics I couldn't tell if there was bacon in any of them!Loving your pics!

I do need to stay home for a while to get rested up. That's Debra and Patches, Debra was with me at Spring Camp. Haven't eaten anything with bacon on it yet.

No Bacon! You are SLIPPING maj..

Had Lunch at the Shrimp Basket, second time to eat there. Debra had fried shrimp and crab claw platter, I had a Cajun style crawfish tails in a red sauce over angle hair pasta and we shared an order of cocoanut shrimp.

Shrimp basket is our favorite place to eat down there! The nights they have AYCE whitefish or popcorn shrimp, we are there. The whitefish is closest to crappie fillets I have found.

Originally Posted by majflyboy

What do you mean? Is there a particular danger to the trailer? I put it in already buy rinsed it off good.

For sure rinse it best you can while there. I let mine soak in a freshwater lake I pass on my way home. Back it in like you would to launch but leave the winch hooked up. Got to let the boat float above the bunks to get the salt out of the carpet on the bunks. Leave plug out and run bilge and aerators for several minutes. Usually stop and gone in about 15 minutes if the ramp isn't busy. I hit a DIY carwash on the way home too and soap it up real good. I noticed you have your TM on your boat. I take mine off. Got one of those MK brackets to quickly remove it when I want to hit the salt. No problems yet after 5 years. Good luck on the alarm problem.

Go out 59 to county road 10 to Bon Secour and eat at Tin Top. Good food.