Best Speckled Trout trip I've had in years

An old fella I fish the Slidell Bridges with called me last night for an impromptu trip today and I'm sure glad I took him up on his offer. Light winds, good falling tide and an approaching front had the trout in a frenzy at the 2nd spot we stopped at.

We hit some inner ponds, lagoons and bayous off Bayou Biloxi today. I'm not certain on all the names. The first stop was a lagoon where I jinxed us by catching a trout on the 1st cast. 1 hour and 5 trout later we moved to where my buddy knew the tide would be moving a bit harder and that was the ticket. Had a 2 man limit in the boat by 9:20am. It was a literal feeding frenzy. Shrimp scattering everywhere and corks/lures going under as soon as they hit the water. If one fish spit the bait, the cork didn't even have time to pop back up before another fish had it. I hooked into a really nice red and while I fought him for almost 10 minutes my buddy had time to pick up all the trout that were laying on the floor of the boat and catch a half-dozen more. It'd been a long time since I've been on a bite like that. It slowed down around fish # 42 so we had to troll around that immediate area and we managed the full 50. Then we spent the next couple hours looking for reds and scoping out other potential spots.

Great day in the Biloxi Marsh!