Running from I-10 to Pass Road in Biloxi - Popps Ferry Road. The central element of this road for anglers is the Popps Ferry Bridge. Separation of Lake Mallet and Great Lake at Biloxi Bay. Waters are home to healthy populations of both marine and freshwater fish.
Location and Directions
Take Exit 44 (Cedar Lake Road) from Interstate 10 and go south. A second red light intersects with Popps Ferry Road. Turning west along Popps Ferry Road takes you to the foot of a bridge with the same name. The last road to the water, Causeway Road, will lead you under the bridge and to the public pier and boat.
Warnings and notes
The 3,900-foot Popps ferry bridge is an important link in the inter-breed waterway (ICW). Its 25-foot drawbridge opens no less than ten times a day to allow recreational and commercial traffic through the waterway. With some boats moving several barges washed together, these leviathans take great care and a careful eye. In 2009, a tugboat with eight barges stuck a bridge and collapsed a 150-foot section into the water below.
What to bring
The waters of Pops Ferry, including Lake Malle, Big Lake and Back Bay lay almost exclusively in brackish water between Interstate 10 and Highway 90. According to the Department of Fisheries and Mississippi Parks, a salt water license is required south of Highway 90, and the license for freshwater or salt water is valid between I-10 and the US 90 highway. This means that this area can be either licensed. Seawater licenses are not valid north of I-10. Any person (65 years old) or older person, or any person who is otherwise exempted from a freshwater fishing license, must have documentation from him / her at any time and from July 1, 2010, residents 65 years and older must purchase all life recreational license for sea fishing. However, residents of Louisiana should buy both freshwater and marine licenses to fish in the Mississippi sea waters.
Typical fishing
Old fishing pier pylons are good places for flounder. Slow trolling natural baits, such as shrimp along the bottom, work well for these flat fish. The good size of the black drum fits closely to have crabs and logically these baits, properly equipped, bringing success. Mouth tidal streams entering the lake, is the preferred place for juvenile perch (red drum) to 20 inches. Night fishing with a good moon in the summer months can often be found with a good amount of trout.
Since the area is brackish water, a large number of fresh fish, including red and black, are often found in this area. Large strippers (Atlantic striped bass) pursue reed cans running in fish and are often a great catch. Fishing near the bridge is a pleasant flounder, especially when fishing under lights at night.
Tips and advice from local residents
Clint Shaw Ellisville and his fishing buddies frequent the Popps Ferry area whenever they have downtime. Fishing from the gondola 21st set at the start there, Clint is proud of his favorite place. Shows when asked if he was lucky this spring:
“Yes, we have quite beautiful ones. We always get big red colors between VA and just on the other side of the Pops-Ferry Bridge. ”
When asked what they were lucky with, he advised: "We used bait with spinners, such as perch magic."
Clint and company prefer open byte drums, including Cabell's Prodigy. Bass pro shop Pro Qualifier and Daiwa Magazine Force V on Berkley Cherrywood graphite rods. The whole boat admits to using the Spider Braid 20lb test.
"There is no need for a leader." - Clint asked with a smile.
His buddy, Brad Hill, is holding a good 17-pound stripper caught on a DOA shrimp bait, for example.
James Randall from Biloxi, a local resident who uses medium-sized fish from a spinning jar to use chopped weights and 1/0 hooks to grab the shepherd dog that is always present, the white trout and the occasional humpback. He admitted that the heads were intended only for bait on large hooks for perch. In addition to his spinning drum, Randall uses Zebco 33 closed drums strung with a 10-pound test. After a day of fishing, James builds a good collection of flounder and trout on the back door of his truck and smiles.
“It's always good fishing here from this bridge.”
