Fishing Reports by Capt. Barry Brown

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Fish Still Spotty After Heat Wave The worst of the heat wave seems to be over. Daily highs for this week are forecast in the high 80's, but with heat index numbers over 100. That's better than the last few weeks when we felt heat index temps aro more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Summer Fishing Pattern Is Here The hot summer days bring with them some difficult fishing days. This time of year more than any other, especially July and August, you will have some days where all conditions seem good but the fish don't bite. Yo more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Live Pogy Producing Limits of Reds The redfish are feeding well on live pogy. In recent trips we have limited out in less than an hour on reds. If you hit those schools when they are feeding it doesn't take long to fill up a box. More often, th more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Live Pogies Producing Reds and Specks We're catching some nice specks early in the mornings on live pogy and top water lures. These specks are ranging between 1 and 3 pounds, but are not in great numbers. They're still worth the effort for some more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - It's Time To Fish With Live Pogy My favorite live bait for catching redfish, speckled trout, and flounder is juvenile menhaden. In the Pascagoula River marshes schools of young menhaden are plentiful beginning around March or April, and reach ade more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Flounder Moving In Although we are still targeting redfish and speckled trout, we are catching some nice flounder at most of our favorite holes. In fact, today Dianne Mason caught a whopping 7 pound 7 ounce flounder on a live cocohoe. Of course, more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Live Bait Producing Good Catches We are still using top water lures early in the morning, and still are catching some good trout on them. But, we are switching to live bait to catch the bulk of our reds and specks. Live cocohoe minnows are attr more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Top Water Still Producing Excitement We had a rise in the river due to rains to our north about 10 days ago. That fresh water coming down slowed down the trout for several days, at least in the areas we had been catching them. Now the water is c more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Winter Returns; Slows Down the Fishing Where did THAT come from?!!! Strong north winds and cold temperatures have stalled the spring fishing action for the last several days. We even had a night of heavy sleet over the weekend. The good new more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River

Mississippi Sound & the Pascagoula River Marsh - Big Trout On Top We are catching some very good size trout on top water. These trout are between three and six pounds. We also get the occasional redfish on the top water plugs. Over the past week I've had my hooks straightened three different more...
Capt. Barry Brown - Pascagoula River