Generally they are easy to approach, and a shrimp on a bottom rig or jig will lead to amazing battles. If possible cast ahead of the cruising fish, letting them swim over the bait sitting still on the bottom. If you’re looking for something really big to challenge your light fishing gear, look no further than the flats and shoals at the barrier islands for the big black drum. This time of year they gather in the shallows, and often you can encounter hundreds if not thousands of the 25 to 50-pound creatures in compact schools.
A live shrimp will be an excellent offering to the bait stealing sheepies, and on light tackle these dark-hued scrappers are simply a delight to catch. With the spawn going on in March these fish can be found in good concentrations at the mouth of the bays, around bridges, and especially at the barrier islands around various sorts of structure. March is also one of the best months to catch the structure loving sheepshead. Anglers fishing scaled down bottom rigs using shrimp, squid, or cut bait will do well on the silver-hued trout, and provide some of the best frying fillets on the planet. And by mid or late March these tasty bottom dwellers should be showing up on the near shore reefs in good and steady numbers. Speaking of white trout and ground mullet, March will continue to deliver good catches on the deeper rocks, wrecks, and fish-havens around the barrier islands.
Aboard TEAM BRODIE CHARTERS we’ve already caught Florida pompano, gafftopsail catfish, bull reds, sharks, white trout, and ground mullet in the Mississippi Sound in February, so look for a cobia to be next on the March fishing list. Well, February was been a crazy month to say the least, and it looks as if March is going to be a strange one too.
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