howsthebite · Alabama
How's the bite in Alabama today?
- Lockjaw
- Picky
- Biting
- On fire
2 tracked waters in AL. Faded dots are the rest of the country. 1 outside the map area.
| Index | Water | Temp | Level | Best window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Picky | Dauphin Island | 87.6°F | 0.948 ft | 2:53 AM–4:53 AM |
| 4 Picky | Lake Guntersville lake reports · no live gauge | — | — | 2:46 AM–4:46 AM |
Rebuilt 8:02 AM · every reading carries its station on the water's own page.
Before you go
A Alabama fishing licence runs $17 a year for residents. ADCNR sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What a Alabama fishing licence costs, and who is exempt → The days you can fish Alabama without a licence →What you may keep
ADCNR sets a size or bag limit for 43 species here — 41 with at least one area open today. Where a species is open in one water and closed in another, its own page says which. Each page carries the agency's own figures, the date they were read, and what is still unsettled.
- Alligator gar
- Banded rudderfish
- Bigeye tuna
- Black grouper
- Bream
- Catfish
- Cobia (ling)
- Crappie
- Florida pompano
- Flounder
- Gag grouper
- Gray snapper (mangrove, black)
- Gray triggerfish
- Greater amberjack
- King mackerel
- Lane snapper
- Largemouth bass
- Lesser amberjack
- Paddlefish (spoonbill) closed today
- Rainbow trout
- Red drum (redfish)
- Red grouper
- Red snapper
- Sauger
- Scamp
- Sharks (most species — see notes for exceptions)
- Sheepshead
- Skates and rays
- Skipjack herring
- Snook
- Spanish mackerel
- Spotted seatrout
- Striped bass and hybrids
- Sturgeon closed today
- Tarpon
- Tripletail (blackfish)
- Vermilion snapper (beeliner)
- Walleye
- White bass
- Yellow bass
- Yellow perch
- Yellowfin grouper
- Yellowfin tuna
Can you eat what you catch?
That call belongs to Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) — advisories are listed per waterbody, with an interactive ADEM map alongside. We link the source instead of paraphrasing health advice.
ADPH consumption advisories →