Columns
Tip the scales in your favor for trophy trout
There are some real gator speckled trout swimming along the coast. You just have to know how to target them. […]
Coast Region
Bass Fishing
Flint Creek’s ‘Classic’ bass
Pardon the Petal Bass Club if its members are a little cocky this year.
Petal sits in the heart of South Mississippi, surrounded by good fishing holes but quite a fair distance from any major reservoir with a prestigious bass reputation. […]
Featured
Gulfport man hooks trophy trout
Trophy hunters are a unique lot; whether the game is whitetail deer, tuna or speckled trout, trophy hunters are just different. The lengths they’ll go to kill or capture their quarry is typically well above and beyond what the average sportsman is willing to face.
Field Notes
Catch more spring trout with drop-shot rig
When he wants to get the drop on speckled trout, more often than not Capt. Mike Gallo goes with one of his old favorites — the drop-shot rig. […]
Tidal Talk
Chicken of the Gulf
Mississippi gets a bad rap in the media. We’re last in the country in supposedly important things and first in supposedly bad things.
Featured
Missing canoeist found under bridge
What began as a leisurely fishing trip to a new area turned into a nightmare for the friends and family of a Perry County man who wound up spending the night in his canoe below the Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge. […]
Deer of the Year
Hunter shoots 10-pointer with four distinct antlers
With a nickname like ‘Bone,” it just makes sense that Seburn Coker would be the guy to shoot a buck with four antlers – and lots of bone – protruding from its skull. […]
Featured
Biloxi man catches world record lionfish
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. […]
Columns
February blues
Speckled trout in February can be harder to find than a civil servant the day after the Super Bowl […]
Columns
The big trout hunt
It’s a little-known fact but Mississippi waters have some fine speckled trout fishing. Here’s some tips for targeting big speckled trout. […]
Featured
Trout, bream available in coastal bayous
Sometimes it helps when you have no idea what you’re doing. To wit: Speckled trout can’t be caught in a bayou considerably north of Interstate 10, and bream shouldn’t be smacking crickets in the waning days of December. […]
Featured
Pascagoula fish dealers cited for flounder
Officers of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Marine Patrol issued citations to owners of a Pascagoula seafood dealer on Tuesday and confiscated over 100 pounds of undocumented flounder. […]