Red snapper season opens with bang - al.com

Red snapper season opens with bang - al.com: "A slow season of spring offshore bottom fishing along the Alabama coast was abruptly — and happily — interrupted on Monday with the opening of the 2009 red snapper season.

The majority of people returning to Orange Beach Monday afternoon under perfect weather conditions caught limits of the popular red-scaled fish. Many managed to put one or two other species in the box as well.

The dock at Zeke's Marina in Orange Beach hummed to life shortly after 1 p.m., when the first boats began returning from their six-hour trips."