Get All of Mississippi’s Saltwater Fish Now in August – Inshore, Offshore and In-Between
Day 4: Mississippi’s Snapper Season’s not Over in August with Captain Mike Moore
 "Plenty of snapper live off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast,” Captain Mike Moore reports. “Just because American red snapper season has ended doesn’t mean you can’t catch other varieties of hard-fighting, delicious-to-eat snapper, including lane snapper, vermilion snapper and gray snapper, as part of your aggregate of 10 reef fish. I particularly enjoy fishing for the gray snapper, (mangrove snapper or black snapper).”
 You often can pick and choose the size and the individual snapper you want to catch, when you get into a big school of snapper and chum them up to the surface offshore. You’ll have very little snapper mortality when you can catch and release the gray snapper after chumming one to the surface, you legally can take home 70 pounds of snapper per day, and you can’t tell the difference between a gray snapper fillet and an American red-snapper fillet when both are properly prepared. Too, anyone who’s rigged right can catch gray snapper.
Captain Moore says, “Using the chumsicle to catch snapper may be more important and more beneficial to fishermen after the closing of American red snapper season than during red snapper season. Here’s why: So-many red snapper are in the Gulf of Mexico right now that you’re more likely to catch red snapper than most-other species. But, if you can pull all the bottom feeders from the rigs and the wrecks using the chumsicle, you can be much-more selective at presenting the bait to the fish to catch the ones in season, like the gray snapper, the cobia and the king mackerel.”
Taking Bonus Fish in August
  Another big advantage that the chumsicle provides for you while August fishing is the bonus fish you can catch utilizing this device. Although most cobia fishermen sight-fish, when you’re fishing reefs and wrecks, the cobia may be deep and out-of-sight. But as you lift-up the chumsicle, it also will bring-up the cobia. On my last August trip to Mississippi’s Gulf of Mexico, we brought-up an 82-pound cobia and caught it right behind the chumsicle. The chumsicle also brings-up king mackerel and many other fish holding on wrecks and reefs on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. For more information on boats available to take you gray snapper fishing, contact Captain Michael Moore at http://www.biloxifishing.com or call 228-392-4047.
 To learn more about catching fish at Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, order John E. Phillips’ new Kindle eBook, “Fishing Mississippi’s Gulf Coast and Visitor’s Guide,” by going to www.amazon.com/kindle, and typing in the name of the book to purchase. Or, you can get a free Kindle app to use to download the book to your iPad, SmartPhone or computer.
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