Shore Thing Fishing Report, 11/27/2024

November 27, 2024

Cooler water temperatures are making the local fish hungry! Whether you fish the oyster beds to the south, near the coast, or inshore, plan to enjoy the beautiful weather and something for the fish box.

- by Sonny Schindler, Shore Thing Fishing Charters

Lance, Mason, and Sara Tamburo with a giant bull red they caught, tagged and released in the Louisiana Marsh.

We wish everyone on and off the water a very safe and Happy Thanksgiving!  It’s been hard to miss this very nice weather. We’ve enjoyed some very good fishing on these calmer days. The little cold snap we had dropped the water temperature several degrees, and it appears to have triggered a very good bite. Hopefully, the cold fronts will start spreading out so we can get more of these calm days to get in on this great fishing.
 

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Andrea Maybury from Austin, TX (and Waveland) with a pretty speckled trout she caught near the Pearl River.

 
We spent the majority of the calm days down south in the Louisiana marsh chasing speckled trout, redfish, sheepshead, and those big white trout. The overwhelming method of choice is still drifting over oyster reefs. We are still using the Boat Monkey Popping corks, 2 feet of 20 pound fluorocarbon leader, a one on kale hook, and a frisky live shrimp . We have had good success with changing out the kale hook and putting on a plastic shrimp imitation. I have been using the Matrix shrimp, and they seem to do the job very well.
 

Mary Paretti from Mandeville, LA, with a healthy sheepshead she caught south of Bayou Caddy, MS.

 
The redfish have started to move inward into the ponds. The colder it gets, the farther back into the marsh they seem to go. In the coming weeks, that should keep getting better and better.
 

Mathew Swinderski from Northern Mississippi with a massive black drum he caught and released near Waveland.

 
On windier days, we are still hugging the shoreline from Lake Borgne all the way into Bay St. Louis. There are still plenty of fish to be caught near shore. The bait still seems to be hanging around everywhere, and in turn so are the speckled trout, white trout, puppy drum, flounder, redfish, and sheepshead. Hopefully things will stay on this course for the coming weeks.

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