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Pascagoula River

The rule for this water, with the receipt.

Special regulations for Pascagoula River, as the state words them

George County · River · MS

Has its own special rules
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The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text

Straight from MS's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.

Whole water
  • Largemouth, Spotted & Smallmouth Bass
    Daily limit 10 per day

Statewide base layerParsed

These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.

Season
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Gear
Game fish may be taken by hook and line (one or more hooks, including rod and reel with artificial bait)Statewide
Bait
Sport anglers may use game fish, non-game gross fish, goldfish, and minnows for baitStatewide
Poles
You may actively fish with an unlimited number of poles or rod/reels except on waters where the number of poles or rod/reels is restrictedStatewide

Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.

SpeciesDaily limitSize
Alligator Gar
2-Statewide
Paddlefish
2-Statewide
Striped Bass and/or Striped Bass Hybrids
6min. minimum length 15 inchesStatewide
Walleye
3-Statewide
Sauger
10-Statewide
Crappie (combined white and black)
30-Statewide
Largemouth, Smallmouth and Spotted bass (combined)
10-Statewide
Sturgeon
0-Statewide

How this answer was assembled

  1. StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
  2. This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
  3. Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.

Where this stretch begins and ends

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The drawn shape is the named water, matched from the official list against OpenStreetMap and accepted only because the name resolved to a single feature in this water's county.

Different sections of this water can have different rules. The exact section boundaries are not marked on the map yet; each rule above describes in plain words where it starts and ends, and that written description is the authoritative boundary. Map boundaries come water by water, never as a guess.

At the water nowContext

Overnight
76°F
Partly Cloudy
Wind 5 mph · 3% precip
Thursday
95°F
Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
Wind 5 mph · 54% precip
Thursday Night
75°F
Showers And Thunderstorms Likely then Mostly Cloudy
Wind 0 to 5 mph · 59% precip

Streamflow: 2,740 cfs at pascagoula river at merrill, ms (2026-07-30 03:15)

Forecast: National Weather Service. Flow: nearest active USGS gauge in this water's area, which may sit on a different reach. Conditions are context, not rules.

What are you fishing for here?Advice

Pick from the species named in Pascagoula River's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.

Receipts

Statewide rules
Statewide
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.
Special rules - Pascagoula River
This water
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.

Local services near Pascagoula River

Tackle shops, guides, and boat launches that serve this water will appear here - a separate lane below the rules, so a local business can reach you without ever getting between you and the regulation.

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