Inshore Fishing
Gulf Coast specks, reds are on the move in May
Mississippi’s Gulf Coast is a great place to start looking at opportunities that abound in May. […]
Inshore Fishing
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Cranka Crab
Sheepshead fishing is part fun, part frustration, and one of the frustrations comes from the fish’s ability to steal your bait before you know it. The main bait of choice among sheepshead anglers is a live fiddler crab. And catching the crabs, keeping them alive, and constantly rebaiting with them is no fun, and it’s time-consuming. […]
Field Notes
Carolina rig basics
It’s hard to beat a Carolina rig for catching big summer trout, coastal guide Jake Scardino said. […]
Field Notes
Easy tip to prevent backlash
Baitcasting tackle gives anglers more power and control over their lures, enabling actions and presentations not possible with spinning gear. […]
Inshore Fishing
No need for speed; slow is good
Lee Parsons emphasizes that many fishermen fish too fast, especially with stickbaits like MirrOlures. His retrieve includes plenty of twitches and pauses, with current providing most of the forward movement. The idea is not to see how much water can be covered, but to entice fish to strike. […]
Inshore Fishing
Match the hatch
Guides Lee Parsons and Mark Dickson emphasize choosing lures that are the same body shape, size and color of the dominant forage in an area. Several of the Catch 2000 lures, plus the 52M and MR, TT and MirrOmullet, have the general body shape as a mullet, and all topwater MirrOlures have mullet shapes. […]
Features
Make mine a MirrOlure
Fish can be caught any number of ways, but MirrOlures hold a special place with a number of saltwater fishermen, especially those who spend time in inshore waters.
Field Notes
4 keys to topwater trout
Capt. Theophile Bourgeois has spent his career learning what makes trout tick, and he lives for that magical time of year when the big girls come out to play.
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Year 1: New speck regs encouraging
Biologists with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources are generally pleased with the first year of the regulations that raised the minimum length for speckled trout from 13 to 15 inches in 2017.
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Water temperature affects specks
Just as much as coastal fishermen will be checking salinity levels in April, they will also be eyeing their water-temperature gauges to get a jump on speckled trout fishing.
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Salinity of rivers is big concern for SW anglers
February and March were brutal for Mississippi’s coastal fishermen, who battled weather on many fronts. They’re hoping April will be better, knowing it can’t be worse. […]
Inshore Fishing
Kings, gray snapper dominate March offshore
Few are the days in March that offer calm conditions needed for most recreational boats to travel offshore safely from Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, but when the opportunity to run is there, fishermen have a couple of options that make it worthwhile.