Coast Region Archives - Page 15 of 40

Ronnie’s Smothered Crabs

July 27, 2015 Jerald Horst

Ronnie Sampey shows you how he cooks crabs. This tasty Smothered Crabs dish is wonderful, but messy to eat. […]

Live bait logistics

July 13, 2015 Sam Davis

Live bait can make a world of difference during the summer. The favored option for coastal anglers is live shrimp under a cork or on a Carolina rig. […]

Two of the remaining offshore species accepted at the Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo are cobia (in hand) and gray snapper (in box).

67th Deep Sea Rodeo opens Thursday

July 1, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

It may still refer to offshore fishing in its name, but Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo mostly focuses on near-shore, inshore and even fresh water fishing.

The 67th event, long a staple of the Gulf Coast’s Independence Day celebration, will be held Thursday through Sunday at the Gulfport Harbor’s Jones Park.

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Last week’s coastal fish kill short-lived

June 30, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

A shortage of dissolved oxygen, likely caused by a rapid overnight algae bloom and low wind and tide conditions, is being blamed for last week’s fish kill reported in the Mississippi Sound near Pass Christian. […]

Wil Permenter, 15, of Oak Grove, caught this 27-pound, 6-ounce jack crevalle on a fly south of Horn Island, just missing a state record but proving to his proud dad that he has become a proficient angler.

Teenager just misses record jack

June 25, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

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. […]

Tripletail have showed off the beaches of the Mississippi coast, hanging around buoys and floating debris.

Annual tripletail run has begun off Mississippi coast

June 24, 2015 Andy Crawford

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.”

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Runner-up Nicky Savoie of Lockport, La., presents the Yellowfin Redfish Elite Series Mississippi Open championship trophy to winner Lance Reynolds (left) of Cut Off, La.

Reynolds wins Elite redfish event

June 17, 2015 Ralph Dunne

As if overcoming a field full of pro redfish anglers wasn’t enough, Lance Reynolds also beat back Mother Nature to win the Yellowfin Elite Redfish Series’ Mississippi Major last weekend in Gulfport. […]

Monster redfish like the one Top Brass Tackle’s Artie Cosby caught prowl the many inshore reefs along the Mississippi coast.

Summer boating can be brutal

June 11, 2015 Sam Davis

Warm weather has officially arrived, and everyone with any manner of watercraft is on the water. My wife equated a boat ride this time of year to driving on steroids because you have to keep a 360-degree watch for oncoming traffic. […]

Katie Gonsoulin, 18, of Houma, La., stands beside the 587.3-pound blue marlin at Saturday’s final weigh-in of the 19th annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic.

Louisiana teen wins billfish event

June 10, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

A Louisiana woman reeled in the biggest prize in the 2015 Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic tournament in Biloxi, catching a weekend-best 587.3-pound blue marlin to take a big bite out of the event’s $1.14 million purse. […]

Weighmaster Mark Wright, center, checks the weight on a fish at the 2014 Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. The 67th event will be held July 2-5 at the Gulfport Small Craft Harbor.

67th Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo July 2-5

June 9, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Its title is a bit out of date, but the Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo remains one of the state’s biggest attractions. […]

The cleaning counters at Mississippi's Gulf Coast snapper fleet have been full of red snapper during the opening week of the 10-day recreational season. The charter boat season will run for 44 total days, ending in mid July.

Snapper are snapping

June 8, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Capt. Robert Earl McDaniel didn’t hesitate when asked his opinion of the opening week of the red snapper season. […]

Lynn Terry of Texas caught this tagged redfish near Bay St. Louis, but wasn't registered in the Coastal Conservation Association's STAR Tournament. It would have been worth a new ATV had she registered before catching the fish.

Mississippi STAR redfish caught, but …

June 3, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

The first tagged redfish caught in the Mississippi Division of the Coastal Conservation Association’s STAR Tournament was worth, well, only the excitement of the catch and dinner at the table. […]