Fishing in January on the Biloxi Back Bay

We would like to take the time to thank everybody for a very productive (loads of fish and friends)..and safe 2018. (Except for the captains shark bite….) And we would like to wish everyone a Happy and safe New Year! Hope you had a joyful Christmas…Ours was GREAT spent time with family and friends.

The Biloxi Mississippi charter boat “WhipaSnapa”, finally had decent enough weather to jump off the 2019 fishing season…As predicted the fishing was little slow….as we have had an enormous amount of rain the last couple of weeks…Even the bait shops are hurting they did not have any live shrimp, but we always keep a large supply of fresh dead!!

On this day we started out couple miles west of the I-110 bridge and fished a few consistent spots..action was slow but we were able to get few nice reds in the 14 to 17 inch range in maybe an 1 1/2 hours!!

Then ran down east of the I-110 bridge where the fishing picked up quite a bit but still the smaller Reds..won’t mention the nice flounder that flopped out trying to get it in the boat.

So to make a long story short….once we found the trick and the sweet spot we boated a large number of really nice black drum and red fish. Fishing on the front side of the highway 90 bridge with a 3/8 oz lead head along with a dead shrimp drifting with the tide on bottom…good stuff

Anchored in front of the large columns with a rising tide, letting the bait fall dead in the middle of the bridge, about 10 feet under the front side would get a strike most every time! Felt really good to see the smiles and the rods bent with the drags ripping…

So load up and come on down and knock the rust off with me

LET’S GO FISHING

God Bless

Capt Earl WhipaSnapa Charters

Let’s Go Fishing!! Biloxi, Ms 1-1-2019

Well mother nature sure  has been giving us heck here along the Biloxi Gulf Coast this last month or so. Lets hope it get straightened out here real soon. I’m ready to get my hook in the water how about ya’ll? Cabin fever getting to you? Lets go fishing!!! Fishing is heating up with trout, flounder, drums, reds, and they going to be hungry. So get your trip booked today!

all smiles on the whipasnapa charters

biloxi ms back bay fishing

biloxi back bay

Shark Attack-Whipasnapa Charters

sharks, cobia, snapper, reds, sheepshead biloxi, mississippi charters fishing in biloxi

 

shark attack on the whipasnapa charter boat
shark attack on the whipasnapa charter boat

Well that Biloxi, Ms based charter the Whipasnapa was out of commission for a couple of days after the fourth of July. Yea after 30 years a shark got me!! I’m not going to gross ya out with pictures (but they are on facebook lol) but lets just say ouch!

But, hard to keep the captain of the Whipasnapa down!! Been doing pretty good this week foot and fish wise. Snapper been on point and drum oh man!!! In one of my clients own words —

“ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! 1/2 day trip with excellent guide

big ole fish Gulf of Mexico
big ole fish Gulf of Mexico

Earl ”.

Thanks Mr. Tony its was great fishing with ya”ll!!

 

The next crew they wanted to catch a shark!! Oh well guess its time to get it over with lol. But, they were gone, one bite of the captain and they high tailed it out of

drum, sheepshead
drum, sheepshead

there bahhh! No but seriously we caught some good eating fish but no sharks for that day.

fish head funny
fish head funny

Had a great day fishing for snapper on the whipasnapa with a bunch of crazy guys from north ms minus one that could not make it. Had a lot of laughs and caught a lot of snapper, vermilion and mangroves. So all in all a great day.

Wanted to thank everyone that has called, texted, and facebooked to check on me, I am doing really good a lil ole shark not going to keep the Whipasnapa Charters down long!! Only few more days

snapper on  whipasnapa charters
snapper on  whipasnapa charters

in July open so get on down here and have some fun in the sun and pet a shark! 😉

 

God Bless

Capt Earl

Red Snapper, Sharks, and a Pompano!!!- Whipasnapa Charters

gulf of mexico sunrise
gulf of mexico sunrise

Inshore fishing is a great past time for first timers with little experience or if you just want a leisurely boat ride to get some of the Back Bays finest and a great pictures of sunrises, I never get use to this, breath taking.

In this ole capt’n opinion the Red and Black drum cook up just as well as the Snapper everybody needs to try it. And the shark meat oh yeah!!!! If you haven’t tried it you must come on down and catch you some.

We had some really great folks on the Whipasnapa Charter Boat this week. Glad to see everybody getting out on the water and taking a kid fishing. Good to see the next generation enjoying this as much as I do. Nothing like feeling that pull of the rod and landing something like this….                      So much fun to catch even better eating!!!

snappers galore offshore gulf of mexico
snappers galore offshore gulf of mexico

gulf of mexico sharks
gulf of mexico sharks

To round out the weekend we went offshore to catch some snapper and boy did we hit the mark on this! Even reeled in a pompano what a beauty. All in all we were able to miss the rain and had a great haul!!  Thanks everybody that came out to have a great time!!!!! God Bless and have a safe 4th of July

pompano and red snapper on the table whipasnapa charter
pompano and red snapper on the table whipasnapa charter

Finally a cobia makes its way to my belly- Whipasnapa Charter

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Some more beautiful weather along the South Mississippi shores has finally produced a nice keeper cobia for the Biloxi Ms. charter boat Whipasnapa. Big reds, sharks, jacks an piles of spanish and King mackeral, entertained as we anticipated the next cobia to come up the chum slick, or for the screams of the reels to get everyone’s ol ticker ticking at a very dramatic tick.

Only one problem, 2 of the cobia, happened to show an hit at the same time!That didn’t work out so good. One eluded our attempt to capture the beast. But luckily (I suppose) it was the smaller of the two. Sure felt good to give out a round of ol high fives thou. Just breaking the ice was a great feeling. Especially since it seems I was getting to be one of the last to catch one. Yeah, trust me these fellows round here, they like to rub it in. Especially; when it comes to the cobia. They all ask me “You get one yet? You caught any cobia?” Well we have caught 4, which 3 were just short of making the 33inch mark. Anyway a nice fat 42 lber(has give us some redemption) an did make for some surenuff :)s. O an some happy belly’s 2.

Another nice 40 come up through the master chum slick about noon. Which the other action was about 7:30, not long after we anchored. So quite some time had passed before the next sighting. Yes, just a sighting, passed just feet from the boat in the slick 4 times. Yet no one could entice this madame to take their offerings.

The spanish on the lil light tackle spin cast helped pass some time,an were surenuff the 🙂 producers. A bright chartreuse jig bounced around in the chum, produced an exhilarating drag ripping run bout every time. A free lined poggey or croaker drifted back a little further(in the chum slick) would get the ol mighty Kings attention also.

The winds picked up on the weekend, which kept us inshore for one, an actually grounded us Sunday. The crew sat. did manage a good mess of whitetrout, Sheepshead, blackdrums an ground mullets. They elected to take a variety sampler (of the catch) to one of our favorite lil restaurants and have it cooked up for lunch. They only had 2 thumbs but gave it 4 thumbs up.

what you waiting for here is your invitation:

Getcha self on down here, load up on the dang ol’ WhipaSnapa an let’s get it on!!!

Many thanks to all and God Bless!!!!
Capt Robert “Earl” McDaniel
228-229-6978