About Capt. Robert L. Brodie

Captain Robert L. Brodie

Capt. Robert L. Brodie is an award winning photographer, and lifelong native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Born and raised on the Back Bay of Biloxi, his entire life has been spent with a passion for the outdoors. Fishing since the age of 5, and operating a motorized boat at the age of 6, Robert has accrued over 45-years of hunting and fishing knowledge and experiences. Robert’s life experiences has included all facets of angling including: inshore and near shore bays, rivers, and bayous; barrier island wade and surf fishing; Louisiana’s vast marsh realm; offshore blue water; oilrigs; and countless days spent roaming the Gulf of Mexico for anything that swims.

Besides conventional fishing, Brodie is also into saltwater fly-fishing, and has held several state records including sheepshead and bonito. Currently he still holds the record for bluefish and gray snapper. Brodie has also experienced fishing the waters surrounding Alaska’s remote Prince of Wales Island where he caught a wide variety of fish including: king salmon (Chinook), silver salmon (Coho), halibut, as well as a variety of cod and rockfish.

Brodie’s second passion is duck hunting, and has focused primarily on the art of hunting diver ducks. His detailed log contains over 30-years of documented hunts…hundreds of them, and still enjoys adding hunting experiences to the long list of wildfowl adventures. Although most of Robert’s big-water hunts have been conducted on the Mississippi Sound, his travels have led him to other areas rich in waterfowl gunning history.

On the Atlantic seaboard Robert has taken tundra swan on the famed Currituck Sound in North Carolina, black ducks in the vast marshes of Wachapreague, VA, Atlantic black brant in Poquoson, VA, near the Chesapeake Bay, and layout boat gunning for redheads on West Bay in Panama City, Florida. Hunting Florida’s Special Early Wood Duck Season and opening weekend of Florida’s regular duck season is also a common ritual for the author, and on occasion he ventures into Louisiana’s Cajun Territory to shoot a wide variety of waterfowl. Also in his travels, Robert has enjoyed the thrill of shooting giant Canada geese in the dairy farm cornfields of Lake City, Michigan.

Appearing on national television is also a part of Brodie’s outdoor resume. Appearing on the Outdoor Channel, “Engel’s Outdoor Experience”, an award winning nationally televised outdoors program hosted by outdoor celebrity Jeff Engel, Robert appears on film catching redfish and shooting redheads along Mississippi’s coastline.

Robert now adds award winner to his title too, because on October 7, 2006 at the 42nd Annual (SEOPA) Southeastern Outdoor Press Association’s Fall Conference in Decatur, Alabama, he received the first place award in SEOPA’s “Excellence In Craft” (EIC) awards for the best published color photograph of 2006. The striking photo titled “Run With The Bulls…Bull Reds That Is!” shows huge schools of redfish boiling on the surface off Mississippi’s mainland just outside barrier island West Ship Island. When displayed on the big screen at the awards banquet it wowed nearly 200 of the best in the outdoor film, radio, television, newspaper, and magazine industry. The breath-taking photo first appeared on the cover of The Sun Herald’s “South Mississippi Outdoors Monthly” magazine, and was later featured as a two page spread in the June 2005 issue of Mississippi Woods & Waters from where it was entered into the competition. It was the first time Robert had ever entered his work into a competition.

Robert’s writing career got started in August of 1994 with “Specks On A Gamble”, his first article for pay that was published in the Mississippi Game & Fish Magazine. Although Robert started writing professionally late in life he soon made up for lost time with an impressive list of published articles and photos on the state, regional, and national level.

Included on the list are: Salt Water Sportsman (featured as the “Contributor of the Month” in the April 2004 issue for the article “Here Come The Cobia”), Wildfowl, Retriever Journal, Waterfowl Hunter, Sport Fishing, Mississippi Woods & Waters, Mississippi Game & Fish Magazine, Florida Game & Fish Magazine, Texas Game & Fish Magazine, Alabama Game & Fish Magazine, Louisiana Game & Fish Magazine, New York Game & Fish Magazine, Louisiana Sportsman, North Carolina Sportsman, Harold Wells Gulf Coast Fisherman, Gulf Coast Outdoors (now Great Days Outdoors, and for 2-years wrote their “Coastal Mississippi Fishing Outlook”), SEOPA News, The Journal Of South Mississippi, and Gulf Coast Boating & Fishing.

Robert also writes extensively for The Sun Herald’s “South Mississippi Outdoors Monthly” where he specializes in all phases of saltwater fishing and duck hunting, as well as freshwater fishing and other outdoor related subjects. The author’s photography quite frequently makes SMOM’s cover shot. Brodie is also an active member of (SEOPA) Southeastern Outdoor Press Association, as well as (OWAA) Outdoor Writers Association of America.

Many of the author’s hunting and fishing articles can be found featured on magazine web sites. For example; articles like “Stripers In The Brine”, “Deer Point Duck Action”, “Diving Ducks On Florida’s West Bay”, “Time And Tide For Speckled Trout”, “The Amberjacks Of April”, “Going Coastal For March Redfish”, “Coastal River Crappie”, “The Gulf Islands For Reds and Trout”, “Mississippi Speckled Trout Fishing”, “Live Baiting For Speckled Trout”, “Mississippi’s Hot August Inshore Action”, “Tuna Times At Sackett Banks-Midnight Lumps” , “Rounding Up The Bulls“, and “Run with the Cobia” are accessible on either the Mississippi Game & Fish Magazine, Florida Game & Fish Magazine, Great Days Outdoors, or Harold Wells Gulf Coast Fisherman web sites.