Shore Thing Fishing Report, 10/8/2025

October 8, 2025

The waters are real salty right now, making fishing a little more challenging. Captain Sonny and his crew have met the challenge head on and still come back to the dock with a good catch! 

​- by Sonny Schindler, Shore Thing Fishing Charters

The past several days of East winds have pushed a ton of salt water into the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This makes things difficult to fish in, but once this water recedes, and things stabilize, I anticipate fantastic fishing everywhere. If you are lucky enough to get out there as the water is flowing out of the ponds, you should be in for a treat.

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Local boys, Justice Nguyen and Cyrus Tusa with a perfect sized puppy drum they caught in Bay St Louis.

​​All of the minnows, shrimp, and crabs should be flowing out of with the ultra high water. The speckled trout, redfish, flounder, and a few other predators should be close by, waiting to feed. You’ll definitely wanna look for points where the water is moving (current lines) and if you can see signs of bait fish. This combination of baitfish and moving water is where you want to focus your casts. 

These two youngsters enjoying some great early fall speckled trout in the Louisiana Marsh south of Hancock County 

We have been relying heavily on the Boat Monkey popping corks with about a foot and a half to 2 foot of 20 lbs. fluorocarbon leader. We usually start with the live bait to try to locate the fish quicker. If and when you are getting a bite almost every cast, we switch over to soft plastics or even better tipping the hooks with FISH BITES. ​

Darden and Tricia Nelms from Tennessee with 2 of the many bull reds they caught underneath large schools of pogies (menhaden).

Hopefully, the big schools of mullet and pogies will hang around for a little while longer. They have been the best thing going when locating the big fish. If you are fortunate enough to find a large school splashing near the surface in about 4 foot of water or more, there is almost always big fish underneath them. It’s what we have been looking for to find the big bull reds, jack crevalles, and sharks.

Mary Ruth Allen from Ocean Springs, MS with a nice flounder she caught south of Pass Christian 

The cooler the temperatures get, the better the flounder fishing has gotten. Again, it’s focusing on current lines and shorelines with bait. We are working drop offs and ledges with a extremely slow retrieve on the bottom.

Please remember that our neighbors in Louisiana close Flounder fishing on October 15th until November 30th. Mississippi does NOT have a closure, but like any fishery please keep what you need and save some for the next angler. ​

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