Sports

Mississippi Outdoors crew pursues an inshore slam near Ocean Springs

The Mississippi Outdoors crew traveled to Ocean Springs on a chilly October morning for a day of inshore fishing with Jeremy Bass, Noel Bass and Thomas Hogue.

The group pursued a Mississippi Gulf Coast inshore slam, defined in the source as catching a speckled trout, redfish and flounder on the same day.

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With the three species as their goal, the crew worked the coastal waters around Ocean Springs to try to find all of them within one day.

Source: Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.

Jon Myers

Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."