Wil Permenter was determined to beat the fish, a presumed giant jack creavalle, which kept his 9-weight fly rod arced so horribly that its tip stayed well below the reel for the entire fight south of Horn Island on June 14. […]
Fishing guide Ronnie Daniels saw his first tripletail of the year in May, but it wasn’t until this week that the fish showed up in numbers just off the beaches of the Mississippi coast.
“We saw over 20 today, which is abnormally good,” Daniels said. “We caught eight.”
Capt. Robert Earl McDaniel didn’t hesitate when asked his opinion of the opening week of the red snapper season. […]
A 550-pound blue marlin was landed by the crew of a 24-foot boat last week, but not before it towed the Key West center console for about 11 miles off the coast of North Carolina. […]
Today’s official announcement of a 10-day recreational red snapper season starting June 1 was met with the expected aggravation by Mississippi’s coastal fishermen, and then some. […]
An offshore trip is pricey, but when you get into a bunch of blackfin the payoff is a lot of great eating. […]
Mississippi gets a bad rap in the media. We’re last in the country in supposedly important things and first in supposedly bad things.
Jason Jones had thoughts of big game fish — tuna, amberjack, wahoo and maybe even vermillion snapper — when he went fishing last weekend in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Brandon Bosarge of Gautier now has his named on two species in the list of Mississippi’s saltwater fishing records. […]
Mississippi’s coastal anglers will have additional red snapper opportunities this fall, according to a special season announced Friday by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. […]
Over 2,000 juvenile red snapper were released Friday on an artificial reef south of Ship Island, the first of three stockings in 2014 that biologists hope will produce more of the popular game fish along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.
A Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council (Council) plan to divide recreational fishing — and its quota of red snapper — into segments is drawing vehement opposition from both private and charter fishermen on the Mississippi Coast.
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