Speckled trout anglers have a lot to look forward to this spring, in part because the Bonnet Carré Spillway on the Mississippi River continues to pour out the remnants of a long, west winter. […]
How to cast jerkbaits and get the merciless response that speckled trout exhibit after staring down its hard-plastic foe. […]
An exclusive club that honors anglers who land a benchmark 30-inch speckled trout. […]
Jon Miller, a new Sportsman Field Reporter, knocks this instructional fall speckled trout video out-of-the-park. He launched out of Hopedale, La., last week and had a great trip. More importantly, Jon shows in great detail how to catch specks from October through January. The weather pattern for the next couple of weeks fits perfectly with this video.
Chas Champagne and charter boat captain Ty Hibbs, both Louisianians, were having a ball this summer catching jack crevalle and the occasional large speckled trout off the coast of Florida.
A speckled trout tournament format, designed by fishermen for fishermen, proved successful this summer and could lead to a series of contests on the Mississippi coast in 2019.
We were fishing Delacroix, La., when a speckled trout coughed up this weird thing shown in the accompanying photo. Read on to learn what exactly it is — and why it’s important to you as an inshore angler.
When using popping corks in the Biloxi Marsh, allowing the current to position your lure is sometimes much easier and more effective than relying on casting accuracy alone. And just as the current carries baitfish along the edges of all the marsh islands, then crashes them into crosscurrents, eddies or slack water, it does the same with your lure and popping cork — as long as you allow it.
A new cork is popping up with South Louisiana’s inshore anglers, and it’s getting a reputation for both durability and a sound that seems to be a hit with speckled trout and redfish. […]
Speckled trout anglers are pretty hard core about chasing yellowmouths, and while they may not think very often about oystermen when on the water, they should. That’s especially true in Biloxi Marsh, where the handicraft of oystermen cultivate shellfish as well as attract untold numbers of trout.
Plenty of speckled trout anglers are very content to stay dry and comfortable in their boats to catch yellowmouths — but for those who really want to dive in and have more of a “hand-to-hand combat experience,” nothing beats getting down and dirty with trout in the surf.
After learning the speckled trout quota for the entire year had been met, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced last week that the second phase of the commercial speck season would not open Friday (June 1) as scheduled.
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