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Shore Thing Fishing Report

Shore Thing Fishing Report, 9/6/2023

9/6/2023

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September 6, 2023
Soon we will transition to fall fishing - but in the meantime, acres and acres of baitfish off our shores are attracting big fish for those who can pick them off!

- by Sonny Schindler, Shore Thing Fishing Charters
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A happy young man with his very first redfish! Caught near Bay St Louis.
We have thoroughly enjoyed the slight break in the heat these past few days. We still have a long way to go before we get into fall temperatures, but after the summer we had, any relief is very much welcome. We have been doing a little better on the speckled trout and smaller redfish the last few days.
 
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James Gauthreaux with a giant bull shark he caught near Ship Island.
 
One of the bigger problems we are having is hard-head catfish (they’re everywhere), and what seems to be areas that have too much bait in them. We fished some shorelines last week that had acres and acres of mullet in them. We were able to pull a handful of smaller keeper-sized speckled trout and redfish out of them, but I honestly believe some of these areas have too much bait for the fish to feed on.
 
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Father Patrick Sanders with a nice keeper redfish he caught south of Pass Christian.
 
One thing that these large schools of baitfish attract is large fish. We still have crews that are all about catching really big fish. When the bait is this thick, and we can see the big fish exploding in the middle of them, I switch gears and start throwing huge top-water poppers into the middle of the feeding frenzies. It is an absolute rush, watching those big bull reds and Jacks come completely out of the water attacking these big topwater baits.
 
Also, on the big fish side of things, some of the biggest sharks I have seen in a while are lurking around the barrier islands. We pulled a bull shark out of some deep water near Ship Island last week. That was one of the larger ones my boat had seen in a very long time.

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Will “Dance” Herrin from Madison MS with a Nice trout he near Bay St. Louis.
 
We are still seeing tripletail when we are out and about in the Mississippi Sound. I think they should be around for the next couple of weeks.
 
The white trout bite should be getting here now; we just haven’t had boats checking on them. We plan to give them a good once-over this week if we don’t find big numbers of speckled trout in the Louisiana marsh. Fresh white trout is, without a doubt, one of my favorite fish to eat.
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