Southern Waters Blog

A steady strong southeast wind has cranked up the surf in Orange Beach and all along the Gulf Coast.  The West Jetty in OB was firing yesterday with head high surf.  The constant wind made it less than ideal but it was big and rideable for sure.  Look for more today, but stronger winds and larger waves.  Rain is likely as well as a cold front is fast approaching our coast.  Expect it to be kinda sloppy and choppy, and crowded as well.  I’d expect that tomorrow (Thursday) the wind should shift northwest and smooth out the chop with an offshore wind, spelling great conditions.

Stop by our Foley location, mention our blog and get 10% off your next skimboard or surfboard purchase.

Conditions at Terry Cove this morning are flat, with a light south east breeze.  Good day for a little flat water skimboarding or paddleboarding.  Hell, it’s just great that it’s starting to warm up….including the water temp.  Check out this new video from Patagonia and FCD Surfboards, featuring Dan Malloy. 

It’s called “Sea Legs”

http://www.fcdsurfboards.com/videos/video_sea_legs_new.html

After three days of rain we are over due for some decent weather.  It looks like it will be in the 70’s today and sunny all day as well.  The surf this morning in Orange Beach, Alabama is glassy with an offshore wind, but only knee high.  A great day to try stand up paddle boarding.  We’ve got several stand up boards in stock at our Foley, Al store located in the Tanger Center.  If you haven’t tried standup paddle boarding, you should.  It’s great for days when the surf is small, but also cool on big days.  Stop by our Foley store and borrow our demo board for a day or pick up our “how to” video from Surf Tech featuring the king of big wave surfing Laird Hamilton.  Check this link to the how to stand up paddle board by Surf Tech.

Stand Up Paddle Boarding Video

The Southern Waters Super Late Model stock car #94 and driver Mitch Cobb will be at our Panama City Beach, Fl store this week.  Come by and check out this impressive car up close.  Our store at Panama City Beach is located at Pier Park righ across from the public pier and beach.  18 year old Mitch Cobb, the driver of our car #94 will be there every day to answer questions and sign autographs.  If you’ve always wanted to see one of these impressive cars up close but have never been able to get a pit pass then stop by today or this week and check it out.

Hoo Hoo!  It’s still January but we’ve been bit by a little Spring Fever.  Check out our super sale on ski and winter apparel from The North Face, Patagonia, Mountain Hardwear, Kavu, Oakley Goggles, and more.   This stuff has gotta go! We are super excited about 2009, no matter what they say on CNBC!. We’ve got huge changes coming for this year. Look for some remodeling of our shops and a return to our roots as a specialist in water sports, the beach life, and winters on the slopes.  We’ve got some killer new brands coming next month, including Billabong, Hurley, Lucy Love, Volcom, Dakine and much more.   We’ll still have your favorites too, like Rainbow, Chaco, and Scott flip flops, Sanuk sidewalk surfers, Costa Del Mar and Smith sunglasses,  and plenty of shorts and tees from The North Face, and Patagonia.  We’ve got a nice selection of Patagonia surfboards, as well as a growing inventory of Stand Up Paddle Boards from Laird Hamilton.  Look for a nice selection of these and other boards at our Panama City Beach Fl, and Foley, Al locations.  We’ve also got some new, cool tee shirt designs of our own debuting this Spring.  So stick around, keep coming back and check out all the new stuff coming!

We’re really getting bombarded with the question “What kinda deals are you gonna have for Black Friday weekend ? “. Take notes kids cause here’s your answer. The craziness starts at our Foley Alabama store at 00:01 Friday the 28th! You better take advantage of this “economic stimulus package” provided by us good folks at Southern Waters Outfitters, cause if you don’t you’ll be missing the best deals on some very cool stuff! You’ll also help us stay in business…at least through Christmas this year. So if you like our stores get out and bear the crush for us and yourself, cause we’ve got some very cool stuff coming for this spring and we’d sure like to be around to share it with you. Check out our Black Friday schedule listed below.

Friday 00:01 (That’s midnight Thursday actually)

00:01 till 8:00 am 25% off all North Face and Patagonia (Foley store only)

8:00am till 9:00pm (the rest of Friday) 20% off all North Face and Patagonia

Saturday 10:00am till 9:00pm

20% off all North Face and Patagonia

Sunday 11:00am till 6:00pm

15% off all North Face and Patagonia

Ever have one of those days where your itchin to catch a wave but the surf is smooth enough to skip rocks?  Well make your own.  Me and a couple of buds got hooked up with the guys who run the Sea Screamer in Panama City Beach.  This beast is a seventy foot long speed boat that carries like 100 people out in the Gulf of Mexico on high speed boat rides.  Well, we loaded the stern up with 55 gallon barrels of water to get the rear end to squat down in the water and make a huge wake.  Ten of my best bros and me took off for an all day surf safari behind this huge boat.  We started off with something like 4 ski ropes and once you got up you could drop the rope and surf the wave like the real thing.  Check out the photo’s it was awesome!

Last night was a great night for some fishing in Magnolia and Fish rivers for specks and reds under the lights.  We pushed off the doc at about 9:30PM and ran into Magnolia Rivers and began fishing the lights down the river.  Using Gulp bait 3″ shrimp we began slaughtering the white trout, as the night progressed I began casting around the shadows of the lights and landed the first Red of the night about 5lbs.  Then we ran into Fish River and again from the first light we saw we caught a ton of white trout.  You know how it is said ain’t nothing good in the shadows well that is not true for Fish River that is where the big boys hang out I landed another 8lb Red fish.  If you want to have a good time find a incoming tide get you a hand full of Gulps and stroll up to some lights.   

Sorry about the pics it was taken off a phone.