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Biloxi Fishing Report

Updated Fri, Oct 23, 2026 from live gauge and weather data

The Mississippi Sound's capital: barrier-island flats, the Biloxi Marsh across the water and a casino skyline over speckled-trout mornings.

3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
High 11:20 PM
Air / High
79 / 80 F
Wind
NE 7 mph

Sources: NOAA tides 8744117, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.

Satellite view
Friday
23
October 2026

Today's Fishing Report

Generated this morning from live readings: gauge, weather model, sun and moon. A fresh report is published here every morning.

3/5Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Biloxi offers the kind of conditions this water was made for. Today brings clear skies, wind NE around 7 mph, steady pressure near 1019 hPa and a high of 80. Tides: high 12:05 AM and 12:50 PM and 11:20 PM, low 5:43 AM and 5:56 PM: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 78 F for the season (estimated). With the waxing gibbous, the solunar majors run 9:32 AM-11:32 AM and 9:59 PM-11:59 PM: the windows to build the day around.

The plan, species by species

Redfish (red drum)Excellent

Spring and early summer put redfish on grass flats, shorelines and oyster bars; on the Gulf, fish below spawning age stay inside the bays (TPWD). Sight-cast to tailing and cruising fish or drift live shrimp under a popping cork.

Speckled troutExcellent

Spring brings seatrout back over shallow seagrass, and the spawning season (April to September in Louisiana and South Carolina) keeps them feeding. Popping corks with live shrimp, free-shrimping on the drift and casting to working birds are the main tools.

Tomorrow: Similar at 76 F. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.Next report: Sat, Oct 24, 6:30 AMHow this report is made β†’

Water and weather

Live readings.

Tides

NOAA station 8744117 (Biloxi). Fish the moving water either side of each change.

Fri
HIGH12:05 AM1.0 ft
LOW5:43 AM0.6 ft
HIGH12:50 PM1.2 ft
LOW5:56 PM0.9 ft
HIGH11:20 PM1.2 ft
Sat
LOW6:39 AM0.3 ft
HIGH2:59 PM1.2 ft
LOW5:43 PM1.1 ft
HIGH10:51 PM1.5 ft

Biloxi tide chart: the week and the month β†’

Right now

Latest readings

Air temp79 F
High / Low80 / 54 F
WindNE 7-10 mph
Pressure1018.9 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset07:03 / 18:15
MoonWaxing Gibbous, 91%
Water temp (seasonal)~78 F est.

Bite planner

Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today. Tap a bar to see why.

5 AM8 AM11 AM2 PM5 PM8 PMsunrisesunsetPRIMEPRIME

Which day to fish Biloxi this week

The best day on Biloxi this week looks like Sunday Oct 25, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.

Best day this week: Sunday, Oct 25 β€” good at 4/5, steady pressure, neither help nor hindrance.

Today, Oct 23 β€” Fair

A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Solunar majors
9:32 AM-11:32 AM and 9:59 PM-11:59 PM
Minor period
3:53 AM-4:53 AM
Sun
07:03 to 18:15
Moon
Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit
Sky and wind
Clear, 7 mph
Rain chance
0%

Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out: how the score is built.

Species guide

The species that matter on Biloxi: seasons, structure and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.

Redfish (red drum) illustration

Redfish (red drum)

Best: late-summer and fall bull run; inshore all year

Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), called redfish across the South, is a bronze inshore drum with a black spot near the tail, fished on grass flats, oyster bars, marsh creeks and beaches from the Chesapeake around Florida to Texas. Spring and early summer put redfish on grass flats, shorelines and oyster bars; on the Gulf, fish below spawning age stay inside the bays (TPWD). Sight-cast to tailing and cruising fish or drift live shrimp under a popping cork.

Speckled trout illustration

Speckled trout

Shallow bays spring and summer; deeper water in winter

Speckled trout is the anglers' name for the spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), a spotted member of the drum family that lives in shallow bays and estuaries from the Chesapeake to Texas. Spring brings seatrout back over shallow seagrass, and the spawning season (April to September in Louisiana and South Carolina) keeps them feeding. Popping corks with live shrimp, free-shrimping on the drift and casting to working birds are the main tools.

When to come: the Biloxi calendar

Activity by species and month, and how the water warms through the year. Tap any cell.

Species activity by month

1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted.

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Redfish (red drum)
Speckled trout
SlowPeak

Water temperature through the year

Typical surface temperature for this water type; today is around 78 F (estimated, not a reading).

5060708090JanMarMayJulSepNovOct, ~78 F now

Angler reports

Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. The water log below tracks each day automatically.

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Water log, last days

Auto-logged from live data
Thu, Oct 22

3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 80 F, wind to 8 mph.

Wed, Oct 21

3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 79 F, wind to 8 mph.

Tue, Oct 20

4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 76 F, wind to 10 mph.

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Before you go

License

Mississippi requires a valid fishing license for adults. Buy online from the state agency; one-day options exist for visitors.

Regulations

Mississippi license (Louisiana too if running the Biloxi Marsh). Trout 15/day at 13 inches: check MDMR.

Access

Back Bay ramps, Point Cadet marina, beachfront harbors; Gulf Islands NS by boat.

About this water

The Mississippi Sound's port city, Harrison County, MS. Trout capital of the central Gulf.

Fishing Biloxi: the full guide

Sound country

Biloxi fronts the Mississippi Sound: the shallow, fertile lagoon behind the barrier islands where speckled trout, redfish and flounder run the calendar. The town's fleet splits daily: west to the storied Biloxi Marsh (Louisiana water: license accordingly), south to the islands' surf and grass, or simply out front: the Sound's reefs and channels produce within sight of the casinos.

The Sound's rotation

Spring trout stack the oyster reefs and channel edges (popping corks and shrimp: the eternal method), summer moves fish to the islands' surf and the deeper rigs' shade, fall runs the white-shrimp migration: birds working over feeding schools sound-wide: and winter pushes everything into the bayous and channels' warm holes (Big Lake, the Back Bay's deep bends).

Islands and the marsh

Ship, Horn and Cat islands (the Gulf Islands National Seashore) offer the region's flats fishing: wade the grass edges for trout at dawn, sight-cast reds along the surf's sandbars: boat access only, worth every mile. The Biloxi Marsh westward is redfish paradise: technically Louisiana: carry both states' licenses like the guides do.

Working the coast town

Public ramps line the Back Bay and the beachfront harbors: the lighthouse pier and Deer Island shorelines serve the boatless: and the charter fleet (from the small-boat marsh guides to the party boats) covers every budget. Watch the Sound's salinity swings after river floods: trout follow the salt: some summers east, some west.

Common questions

Do I need a Louisiana license fishing from Biloxi?

If you cross into the Biloxi Marsh (Louisiana water: most guides do), yes: carry both. The Mississippi Sound proper fishes under MS rules alone.

When is speckled trout season in the Sound?

April-June on the reefs and October's shrimp-run blitzes are the peaks: winter's deep-hole bite in the Back Bay keeps the faithful busy. Popping corks never take a month off.

Is fishing good at Biloxi right now?

Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Nearby waters

Pascagoula River42 miDauphin Island47 miMobile Bay53 miGulf Shores71 miLake Pontchartrain75 miBarataria Bay96 mi

Where this page's numbers come from

Tide predictions
NOAA CO-OPS 8744117 β€” Biloxi
Harmonic predictions, datum MLLW, local time. 11 high and low events returned for today and the next two days. A prediction, not a measured water level: wind and surge move the real thing.
Weather and pressure
Open-Meteo forecast model
Queried at 30.3960, -88.8850 in this water's own timezone. A model, not an observation.
Moon and solunar windows
Calculated on this site
Astronomical calculation from these coordinates and the date, not a third-party feed. How much weight it deserves.
The written guide on this page
Pablo Ruiz Quintero
How this page was made. The daily report is computed by our scoring engine from live readings; nobody types it. The written guide was drafted with AI assistance. Unlike our newer pages, it does not yet list the official pages its facts were checked against: that audit is under way, and anything it cannot verify will be taken out. Pablo Ruiz Quintero sets every guideline, the data-verification system and the minimum standards a page must meet to be published, reviews page structure and approves what goes live; the responsibility is his, and the AI carries out the work. We work this way because it is how one person can keep every page current with named sources. Errors are published in the verification log; the full policy is in the editorial policy.

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