Can you keep a red drum (redfish) in Mississippi?

A slot means the fish must fall between those two numbers. Shorter than 18 inches goes back, and so does longer than 30.

A slot of 18 to 30 inches, three a day — and recreational anglers may keep one red drum over 30 inches on top. That 30-inch ceiling is the highest of the five Gulf and Atlantic states on this site; Alabama stops at 26.

MDWFP source page

What we left out on purpose

• Border waters follow an unusual rule that has no field in this schema: for black bass, bream, crappie and striped bass in waters touched by the state line, the limit is that of the adjacent state or Mississippi’s, whichever is greater. Anyone fishing the Mississippi River or Pickwick Lake needs both sets of rules.
• MDWFP’s own page links the April 2023 revision of the creel rule, while a May 2024 revision "with CHANGES" sits on the same server. Both were read; the statewide creel table is identical in the two, so nothing here depends on which is current. Anything beyond that table should be checked against the newer file.
• Mississippi sets freshwater length limits lake by lake rather than statewide — Arkabutla, Enid, Sardis, Grenada, Eagle Lake and others each have their own for crappie and bass. None of those waters is reported on by this site, so only the statewide creel figures are carried.
• Paddlefish is left out. Mississippi measures it from the front of the eye to the fork of the tail, a method this schema does not carry, and fish over 30 inches must be released.
• The reef species — snappers, groupers, amberjack, triggerfish — carry aggregate limits and federal seasons set by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, which change within the year. Only size and bag are published here, not the season.
• Sturgeon of every species may not be taken or possessed in any Mississippi water. It is left out rather than listed as a zero.