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Speckled Cat Fish

About five minutes into our run, I thanked Tommy Barrett for launching at Pass Christian rather than Gulfport. Rather than running due south to get to our destination, we were running southeast, which meant we had a front-row seat for one of the most spectacular sunrises I had ever seen. […]

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Marsh Maniacs

Every time our live shrimp and plastic jigs hit the water, we’d feel a thump on the line, the rods would pretzel, the drags would squeal and big speckled trout would come to the boat. […]

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Topping the Charts

A light wind from the southeast rippled the surface of the steely, gray-blue water as Capt. Barry Brown eased his 19-foot bay boat into position. Beneath us, in the brackish waters of the lower Pascagoula River, swam both huge redfish and oversized speckled trout. My son, John, and I were fishing with Brown in late April. […]

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Pick of the Litter

The Tennessee River, which forms Pickwick Lake, runs through Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi.

At this intersection, it becomes one of the most-phenomenal fishing resources, not only in Mississippi, but in the country. […]