Go crabbing. You can get the traps at Walmart, get some chicken parts. We deboned some chicken breasts and used the bones as bait, or use chicken backs and necks. Tie into the traps, drop off a pier, wait one minute and pull up a trap with a couple of crabs. I think they were blue crabs. We were in Fort Morgan which is just west of gulf shores. If you take the road to the end there is the actual fort, and their is a pier by the ferry that takes you to Dauphin Island. That is where we went crabbing from. We caught about 3 dozen crabs in an hour. You will need a license unless you bring some kids with you, and they do the dropping and pulling up of the traps. Conservation guy was there and he did not give us any trouble about not having a license since we had our boys with us. Good eats, basically for free.