Fishing/Crabbing East End Bay St. Louis, MS

You can definitely catch fish around Bayou Portage. Fish the marsh on a falling tide for reds and flounder. If you get a lot of rain before though it can make fishing harder.

Plenty of redfish all back in the marsh of Bayou portage and north of there around the Wolf and delisle/acadian bayous. Your boat is perfect for that area. Can also catch plenty reds and big drum along the hwy90 bridge and train bridge. A little early for good numbers of trout in the bay, but still plenty can be found. Just remember, you can't keep those 12" LA dink trout over here.

I have 23 double ring nets, typically bait with turkey necks and perch heads..... okay to do that over there?

Never had any luck with crabs that way. Flounder might start to be trickling out by then though, got to watch the reports to see where they are when you go.

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I have 23 double ring nets, typically bait with turkey necks and perch heads..... okay to do that over there?

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Yep. I've only used the nets off of a pier or the sea wall in BSL/Waveland.

Ipp bring them and give it a shot. Thanks for all the replies fellas.

I have a place on that side of the Pass. Neighbors said they have seen a few schools of reds coming thru. I wonder if you rented my place?

It's called "The Casual", my SIL rented it, she invited us to go.

Update; crabbing sucks. 3 hours yesterday with 10 nets out, caught 3 crabs.

Fishing; we soaked some shrimp up against the bridge and caught a drum.

Boating Etiquette; Sucks. Trump Flag Flying (I'm a trump Guy FWIW) run on plane less that 50 feet from you..... happened 3 times yesterday.

Teenage Fishing partner; tired, he's use to fishing where we catch fish/crabs and "just wants to go ride around later"

I did go buy some bait shrimp in Port of BSL yesterday, beautiful 21/25s for $2.50 lb. They had a couple charter captains cleaning up a mess of white trout. I think they went out to the islands (my boat is to small)

Ouch. Hate to hear that, especially the DA that doesn't know how to operate a boat. Unfortunately, there's far too many new boat owners this year and most don't have a clue. What time did y'all get out and fish? It's tough when this hot. Early or nothing.