Field Notes
Understanding how water flows through the marsh
It’s easy to look upon an area of marsh and only see a bunch of grass and water.
Inshore Fishing
Features
Made in the shade – Don’t throw shade on Mississippi tripletail
When most fishermen hear about saltwater sight-fishing out of Biloxi, they immediately think about spotting redfish tailing in the shallows of the marsh or pushing water against a bank. […]
Featured
Speck event successful
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.
Field Notes
Mystery baitfish revealed
Keeping a close eye on what a speckled trout throws up when you reel it in can give important clues on what it’s eating that day. […]
Inshore Fishing
Fish current seams, inlet eddies, jetties on an incoming tide
The armaments that prevent many of the nation’s inlets from closing in always provide great fishing opportunities due to the very nature of how jetties are built and where they are located. […]
Redfish
Biloxi Marsh: Being there is worth getting there
The weather plays a crucial role in any type of fishing, but when fishing the Biloxi Marsh, getting there can be more of an inconvenience than actually fishing. […]
Redfish
Tips for landing a bull redfish
The Biloxi Marsh is full of bull redfish and you’re going to catch your share. These tips from Capt. Mark Wright will help. […]
Content
Hot weather, fish high water
Temperatures soar over the peak summer months across the southeast, with daytime temperatures in the 90s almost every day. Anglers looking to fish during the best conditions should look at tide charts and be ready to take advantage of rising water if they want to bust a limit of inshore targets. […]
Features
Sight in on redfish
Sight-fishing for bull reds in the Biloxi Marsh gives anglers a chance to hunt and fish at the same time. Capt. Mark Wright explains how. […]
Columns
LiveTarget’s Scaled Sardine Twitchbait
A veteran saltwater fishing guide out of Sarasota, Florida, has an artificial bait that looks so much like the real thing, it’s irresistible to speckled trout, redfish and snook in the shallow waters he fishes along the coast.
Field Notes
Sight-fishing support
If Chas Champagne, the owner Matrix Shad lures is cruising through marsh and duck ponds sight-fishing for reds — but doesn’t actually spot any fish — he’s typically keeping a close eye out for two other reliable indicators of reds in the neighborhood. […]
Field Notes
A killer redfish swimbait
Devin Denman shares his favorite swimbait to catch redfish across the coast: Berkley’s 5-inch Grass Pig in swamp gas color. […]