Inshore Fishing Archives - Page 37 of 48

July 21, 2026

The Fat Boy

November 28, 2013 Don Shoopman

Paul Brown’s Fat Boys are still kicking, slowly twitching underwater, tantalizing and catching saltwater fish after the proven soft plastic was bought in the late 2000s. […]

Watching your line can pay big dividends when the bite is light.

Rod-n-Reel

November 15, 2013 Sam Davis

Dana Sanders keeps it simple when selecting his rods and reels. He prefers quality equipment that he can use year round so he doesn’t have to switch up as the seasons change. […]

Bigger trout will soon be showing up in the bays and along the beach.

Long jaunts across open water to fish the barrier islands are a distant memory as the water temperature in Biloxi’s Back Bay continues to drop, bringing an abundance of bait and the predators that feed on them into the bay. […]

This nice redfish fell for a Matrix Shad bumped along the bottom near a rock point.

Pascagoula River trout

November 1, 2013 Sam Davis

The 19-foot Sea Pro came off plane well short of the cut in the Pascagoula River. […]

Panko Trout

October 30, 2013 Jerald Horst

Private chef Tracy “T.L.” Bayles used a lot of Panko bread crumbs when he cooked in restaurants, and now likes Panko so much that he seldom uses other bread crumbs. […]

The soon-to-be-released Power-Pole Mini is designed to work with any small boat.

A better shallow-water anchor

October 21, 2013 Allan Tarvid

My club tournament partner and I were running out of time. We had barely 15 minutes of fishing left before we had to leave to make weigh-in, and we had just located our first concentration of decent bass. […]

When weather brings wind, rain and rain suits, coastal captains start playing bridge. Or at least hanging around the bridge pilings where redfish, black drum and, eventually, sheepshead move in for the cooler season.

Weather hurting short snapper season

October 3, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

With the two-week fall red snapper season underway, Mississippi offshore anglers are doing more surfing than fishing. […]

Long, limber crappie poles are the weapon of choice for dunking fiddler crabs for sheepshead.

Equipment

September 15, 2013 Sam Davis

Equipment needed to get started fishing for sheepshead is minimal. Here’s a list: […]

Place the garden shovel a few inches behind the hole, lift up, and the fiddler will come out of his hole enough for you to grab his claw.

Fiddler crabs

September 15, 2013 Sam Davis

Perry’s favorite bait for catching sheepshead are fiddler crabs he catches in the marsh close to his house. A fiddler crab is compact, which helps prevent the bait from being nibbled off — something a sheepshead is notorious for doing. […]

Sheepshead are visual feeders, making live fiddler crabs the bait of choice.

Herding sheep — Sheepshead fishing offers close-in coastal action

September 1, 2013 Sam Davis

The 16-foot Uncle Buck’s Crappie Pole allowed Biloxi’s Kyle Perry to drop the bait straight down into the strike zone. Perry’s bait hadn’t sunk 18 inches when the bright-yellow tip of the pole bobbed twice and then went straight down. […]

Anything holds tripletail

August 15, 2013 Mississippi Sportsman

Capt. Kenny Shiyou tells anglers to never pass anything on the surface without looking for a tripletail. […]

Capt. Kenny Shiyou and Dan Smith of Ridgeland sit by a full box of speckled trout and redfish, topped by three tripletails. The tripletails give a cooling finish to a summer day of fishing in the Mississippi Sound.

Capt. Kenny Shiyou’s tripletail fishing tips

August 15, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

• Rod and reel: A good medium-heavy or heavy-action spinning rod, 6 ½ or 7 feet, with a quality spinning reel that is easy to cast. […]