Just as my D.O.A. Shrimp hit the water, I felt as though my cast had landed on the caboose of a runaway freight train. The rod pretzelled, and the line came off the reel as the drag sang a high-pitched tune.
I heard my fishing buddy, Bo Hamilton of Ocean Springs, laughing.
“I think you’ve got a fish on, John,” he said. […]
Fishing along the Mississippi coast is free again on July 4 – at least it doesn’t require a fishing license, according to the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. […]
“When you feel your croaker jumping around and getting nervous, get ready because a big speckled trout is looking at that croaker with its sharp pointy teeth, and you’re about to get a bite,” says Capt. Kyle Jarreau of Shore Thing Charters, headquartered in Bay St. Louis.
Capt. George Pelaez of the Joka’s Wild charter boat, docked at Point Cadet Marina in Biloxi, operates trips to the Chandeleur Islands. His boat, the mother ship for a Chandeleur Islands’ adventure, carries 12 to 14 people who sleep and eat on the boat and then go out in skiffs to fish the Chandeleur Islands. […]
The Harrison County port resort city of Biloxi is well known for its casinos, Beauvoir, and for being the setting for a number of John Gresham novels. What is not as well known about the city is that it is in the heart of the “Fertile Fisheries Crescent” of the northern Gulf of Mexico and that from more than a half dozen prime spots, a saltwater angler can stand on shore and capture any number of prime game fish without ever getting their feet wet. […]
March is a transition month on the Gulf Coast, and weather and water temperatures will have a direct effect on what type of fish you can catch during the beginning and at the end of the month. […]
Lenny Maiolatesi, captain of the Fighting Chicken, expects outstanding fishing in January. […]
The new PENN® Allegiance Inshore series of spinning and baitcast rods are designed specifically for shallow water species like tarpon, redfish, speckled trout and snook. […]
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents found the body of an overdue Madison County angler near Martin Island in the state’s St. Bernard Parish shortly before noon yesterday (Nov. 14). […]
With its classic features combined with a new shape, cutting edge hydro-phonic innovations and 15 smoking hot colors, the Badonk-A-Donk from Bomber Saltwater Grade is sure to be a fierce topwater weapon. […]
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality on July 20 reopened Mississippi’s territorial marine waters to live-bait shrimping and recreational catch-and-release hook and line fishing in areas previously closed due to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. […]
All recreational and commercial fishing was halted in the Mississippi Sound yesterday (July 1) “in an abundance of caution” because of sightings of oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced. […]
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