Saltwater Flats fishing

[cwink]

Anyone know of a good area to go in MS down on the coast. Id like to take the wife and son down there for a little R&R and take my little 14x42 jon boat out for some red and speck fishing with them.

[H20fowlkiller]

You can go anywhere on the coast and catch fish, with that size boat i wouldnt venture out more than a mile or so, i would stick to all the marshes or backwaters depending where you wanna go or stay. Key is fish the tides and where water is dumping out of gullies, cuts, chanels, etc., if you come during the summer dont even bother fishing past about 9

[@work]

With that boat, you'll be limited to about 3 areas (that I know of). The Back Bay in Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, or around Pascagoula. I've fished in the Back Bay a few times and had some success...nothing like you'll find in the LA marsh but you'll pick up a few specks and maybe an occasional redfish. There's a ramp beneath the I-110 bridge where it crosses the bay that's pretty nice and will allow you to get around the back bay without having to get out in open water.

[cwink]

With that boat, you'll be limited to about 3 areas (that I know of). The Back Bay in Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, or around Pascagoula. I've fished in the Back Bay a few times and had some success...nothing like you'll find in the LA marsh but you'll pick up a few specks and maybe an occasional redfish. There's a ramp beneath the I-110 bridge where it crosses the bay that's pretty nice and will allow you to get around the back bay without having to get out in open water.

Thanks that is what I was looking for. This is back bay boat for sure. In fact it was bought to fish the Nuecess Bay in Tx and had good sucess out of it when I was a kid.

[legends of the lower mars]

When are you thinking of heading down??? Give me a holler before you come and I'll try to send you in the right direction...




Capt. MOJO out..............................................

[cwink]

When are you thinking of heading down??? Give me a holler before you come and I'll try to send you in the right direction...




Capt. MOJO out..............................................

Not sure yet.. Maybe some time in April.. I will holler at you if we decide to come down.

[legends of the lower mars]

Cool deal Bro!

[paraduck]

Chad
Get with me I can help you out in the Pascagoula area.

[cwink]

Chad
Get with me I can help you out in the Pascagoula area.

[greenhead29]

I've been out a few times but cant seem to catch anything but those darn catfish and small croker fish. What am I doing wrong? I've tried dead shrimp, DOA plastic shrimp, Gulp plastics...I dont know what to do! Ive never done any bay/marsh fishing, always pond and lake for me. Any ideas?

[cwink]

I've been out a few times but cant seem to catch anything but those darn catfish and small croker fish. What am I doing wrong? I've tried dead shrimp, DOA plastic shrimp, Gulp plastics...I dont know what to do! Ive never done any bay/marsh fishing, always pond and lake for me. Any ideas?

Dead shrimp is what your problem is.


Try live shrimp on a treble hook. Hook them in the head between the two big black dots (Brain and Heart). Put a cork on the line and a split shot between the cork and hook about half way down. Make sure the shrimp does not have enough line to get to the bottom, if you see your shrimp comes back in with no legs, then you got to much dept to it.

If you want to try artificial try the gold and silver spoons.. We really like the ones with the red tags on the back. Also white shrimp tails with red tails worked well also.

We would drift fish a lot. Find a reef out in the water and motor up wind and drift across it, popping the cork every now and then or use the lures..

[mshunter77]

I've been out a few times but cant seem to catch anything but those darn catfish and small croker fish. What am I doing wrong? I've tried dead shrimp, DOA plastic shrimp, Gulp plastics...I dont know what to do! Ive never done any bay/marsh fishing, always pond and lake for me. Any ideas?

What areas you fishing?

[mshunter77]

Cwink if you come down stop by Academy in gulfport and look me up and I will let you know what the reports are looking like.

[Dux Be Us]

The jetties behind Beau Rivage...cast into the cuts with live shrimp and a little weight. State record speck came off the rock piles next to the Palace...pink top dog Jr at sun up. Fort Bayou(Ocean Springs)...you'll run into fresh and salt water fish back in there...they will all eat live shrimp...caught a 12# tagged striper in there one time. Have a fresh water liscense in there. Just west of the Beau you will see the remains of a pier...1 mile directly out is an oyster reef that holds fish. You can run into ALOT of them small sharks there later in the year....kids love em. Take a garden hoe and some live and dead shrimp to the Ocean Springs/Biloxi bridge. Rake the barnicles off the pilons to chum em up...HANG ON...Ive hooked run away submarines there and the railroad bridge where there is an outcropping for maintenance...dont drop an anchor or you'll lose it next to them bridges. If you can throw a small cast net for finger mullet and pogeys...you'll be in bussines. The flats in front of the VA(Gulfport) at sunup with a live shrimp under a popping cork can be good...you can wade that area as well....stay out of the Least Tern nesting areas. A Norm Bait or Top Dog Jr can be deadly over ANY of the oyster reefs...they are marked with plain white poles. I lived down there for a number of years and fished about everywhere at one time or another...Good Luck

[greenheadgrimreaper]

I'm really beginning to think Dux Be Us is on a whole 'nother level far as fishing goes... dude knows the stuff no matter where it's at!