In The Loop With Andy Andrews

On this week’s episode, I talk about a very unusual summer event that occurs a few times a year on the shore of Mobile Bay. Something very unique happened earlier this week while at a book signing in Fairhope, Alabama.  There is a 15-mile stretch on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. In the late summer on a still night between two and five in the morning, fish pile up on the shore for several hundred yards. I’m talking thousands. Flounder, Whiting, Mullet, Shrimp, and more. This is only one place in the world this happens and it is called a “Jubilee.”   I am shocked by how many people read The Noticer Returns and think “Jubilee” is something I made up. This has been going on for centuries. Years ago they had bells on the porches of the houses along the bay to let the community know when the phenomenon was occurring.  The fish are almost stunned or asleep. It will last for an hour or two and then they’ll wake up and swim back into the gulf. People will fill their ice chests and have fish for a year.   It’s a