Shore Thing Fishing Report, 9/3/25

September 3, 2025

Don't let the cooler temps fool you - summer, and great summer fishing, are far from over!

​- by Sonny Schindler, Shore Thing Fishing Charters

Philip, Garrett, and Autumn Garcia with bull red they tagged and released in the Louisiana Marsh.

We are going through what I like to call “fake fall.” While we have unseasonably cool weather, I seriously doubt we are done with the heat for a few more weeks. For the time being, though, we’re enjoying some very pleasant fishing conditions.

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Malcom and Evan Nelson with one of the many bull reds they tagged and released south of Pass Christian Harbor.

 
With these cooler fronts have come some windy days, so we have been focusing more on redfish when it’s choppy out front. No matter where we fish, we are looking for the same scenarios: water up in marsh grass and schooling mullet. If you can find finger mullet bunched up around a grassy shoreline, ideally with shells on the bottom, there are more than likely redfish around that. We are using minnows 18 inches under a Boat Monkey popping cork and letting them sit close to the grass. Give an area 10 minutes – if you aren’t seeing any signs of redfish, move down.
 

Margot Schindler with a tripletail she caught near Long Beach.

 
There are still plenty of speckled trout around, but we are definitely waiting for calmer days to chase them. We have seen a little push of shrimp come through, and with that comes schoolie trout. The bigger fish seem to be holding in the deeper water, either around oyster reefs or around near shore reefs just off the coast of Hancock and Harrison Counties. Big, frisky shrimp or live croakers should get it done. We are seeing some random puppy drum and sheepshead mixed in, especially when fishing with live shrimp.
 
Sea conditions over the last few days have kept us from looking for tripletail, but with this warmer water, there should still be a few lurking around.
 

Shore Thing Charters Captains Bryan Raymond, Ray Necaise, Darien Ladner, and Sonny Schindler with a big red snapper they caught near the end of Federal snapper season.

 
The most fun has been chasing big fish by cruising the beaches along Harrison County from Henderson Point to Gulfport Harbor looking for big feeding schools of jacks and bull reds. Another productive method is to find schools of pogies jammed up in smaller bays or bayous with deeper water. More often than not, the bull reds are underneath the pogies. You have to pick through some giant gaff top catfish and sharks, but the steady action will keep you on your toes.
 

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