With all due respect to the ongoing search and recovery efforts in Texas, I’m thankful to report that our friends from the Mississippi Gulf Coast seem to have weathered the summer’s long line of tropical storms and hurricanes just fine.

I got a note from Sonny Schindler of Shore Thing Charters in Bay St. Louis today, and he said his operation suffered minimal storm damage.

With cooler temperatures now moving in, the Shore Thing crew is looking forward to fishing for redfish and speckled trout in the interior of the marsh.

Sonny says fall is an amazing time to be on the water. The weather is cool, the scenery is incredible and the morning topwater bite can be awesome. Fishing flooded ponds for redfish can be a sight caster’s dream.

If it’s in your budget, you shoul enjoy the trip of a lifetime and help out our Gulf Coast friends after another long, tumultuous summer.