Mississippi Fishing Reports

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Live Pogies Ready for Action We're still catching a lot of reds on live bait, and the best news is that the juvenile pogies are now large enough to get their attention. Within the past few days I have started using some pogies along with my usual more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Top Water Specks and Reds The water temp is up to nearly 80 degrees, and that means top water fishing. We have had several great catches lately on top in the early morning. We're catching specks up to about 5 pounds and reds up to 20 pounds usin more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Top Water Trout and Reds Over the past two weeks we have consistently caught some nice trout on top water lures in the early morning and just before sunset. The trout are out on the oyster reefs and in several of my favorite spots up river. Thes more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Bigger Trout Moving In We are catching some nice 3 pound specks on the reefs with artificial cocahoe under popping corks. The bigger trout are cruising the reefs feeding on finger mullet. We are catching 8 or so of these per trip. There are sc more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Reds Are In The Shallows My last trip on March 5th was typical of the spring. We started the day fishing specks and caught several in the 14 to 15 range, and about twice that many 13 inchers that were not keepers according to Mississippi's lega more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - It's Still February...It's Still Winter A mild January had my hopes up for an early spring, but February has been a steady flow of cold fronts that have interfered with my fishing. We were getting the fronts about every three days for most of the more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Winter Trip with Bobby Cleveland This week I had the pleasure of guiding Outdoors Editor Bobby Cleveland and photographer Brian Broome, both of the Clarion Ledger newspaper. Here is a link to their story: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dl more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Winter Trip with Bobby Cleveland This week I had the pleasure of guiding Outdoors Editor Bobby Cleveland and photographer Brian Broome, both of the Clarion Ledger newspaper. Here is a link to their story: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs. more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Spring Is Near Fishing has been a little slow lately. The specks are scattered mainly along the river channel, and can be caught if you have enough patience to fish slow with jigs. It's been tough to make a limit on most days over the past two w more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Trout Slow Down with Colder Temps After a tremendous post-hurricane bonanza on both reds and specks, things have slowed down over the past 10 days or so. The speckled trout are very difficult to locate, and the numbers are not very impressive. P more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River