Hard Tide Journal

New Waters, Familiar Respect: Finding Your Place in a Fishing Community

New Waters, Familiar Respect: Finding Your Plac...

Learning new waters means learning the community around them, too. From asking better questions to respecting shared spots, here’s how newcomers and longtime locals can help build a fishing community...

New Waters, Familiar Respect: Finding Your Plac...

Learning new waters means learning the community around them, too. From asking better questions to respecting shared spots, here’s how newcomers and longtime locals can help build a fishing community...

The Fall Transition: Follow the Bait

The Fall Transition: Follow the Bait

Cooler mornings don’t move every fish at once. This week’s Hard Tide Journal looks at following fall bait movements and choosing between Mississippi beaches, bay mouths, and upper bays.

The Fall Transition: Follow the Bait

Cooler mornings don’t move every fish at once. This week’s Hard Tide Journal looks at following fall bait movements and choosing between Mississippi beaches, bay mouths, and upper bays.

Live Bait vs. Artificial Lures: What Earns a Spot on Your Rod?

Live Bait vs. Artificial Lures: What Earns a Sp...

Live shrimp or artificial lures? From popping corks to shoreline searches, here’s how we choose between them on the Mississippi Coast—and when we switch.

Live Bait vs. Artificial Lures: What Earns a Sp...

Live shrimp or artificial lures? From popping corks to shoreline searches, here’s how we choose between them on the Mississippi Coast—and when we switch.

After the Deluge: Where Mississippi Gulf Coast Fish Go After Heavy Rain

After the Deluge: Where Mississippi Gulf Coast ...

Heavy rain can completely rearrange the Mississippi Gulf Coast fishing map. Here’s where trout, redfish and bait may move after a deluge—and how to decide where to fish next.

After the Deluge: Where Mississippi Gulf Coast ...

Heavy rain can completely rearrange the Mississippi Gulf Coast fishing map. Here’s where trout, redfish and bait may move after a deluge—and how to decide where to fish next.

How to Fish Moving Water: Why Tide Matters

How to Fish Moving Water: Why Tide Matters

Learn how rising and falling tides move bait, create feeding opportunities, and help you locate redfish, speckled trout and other inshore predators.

How to Fish Moving Water: Why Tide Matters

Learn how rising and falling tides move bait, create feeding opportunities, and help you locate redfish, speckled trout and other inshore predators.