Summertime fishing!
We are starting to see a lot of our summer time fish show up! Jack Crevalle and Cobia have made their way in along with a healthy number of sharks. The inshore bite in the creeks continues to provide us with solid action.
Summertime is one of our favorite times of year to fish because we can fish for such a variety of species allowing us to break trips up. We may start with redfish in the creeks and then move our way to some deeper waters if the weather allows for some sharks, bull redfish , cobia, and jack crevalle.
We expect the bite to continue to flourish as more and more bait is showing up in our waters. Lately we have been using shrimp and mullet in the creeks and then pogies, whiting and mullet nearshore for some of those larger fish.
Summer break is almost here and trips are booking up so secure the spot you want today!
Nonstop Action!
March has been action packed in the creeks! We have been using live shrimp to catch most of our fish lately. I try to go out between trips to load up the live wells with shrimp because we sure do burn through some shrimp right now.
We have mostly been catching redfish and black drum in the creeks and we have seen some sea trout, flounder, and sheepshead mixed in there as well. Over the last week or so we have even started to fish deeper waters when the weather allows for it and we are starting to catch some sharks too!
Things are really coming to life as the water temps are up significantly. The birds are finding more bait to eat and we have been seeing a lot of mullet and shrimp in and around our fishing spots.
We expect the bite to continue being stellar providing us a lot of opportunities on our trips this month (April). We will continue fishing the creeks and will also venture out in the sound some to catch some sharks and bull redfish as they make a run in the spring.
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Sheepshead Bite!
February provided us with some really solid action on the sheepshead! They are terrific table fare if you catch legal size fish. These fish have funny looking mouths that they use to eat hard crustaceans like crabs, mussels, oysters, and barnacles.
We expect the sheepshead bite to stay solid through the month of March and into early April. The redfish bite has been good with plenty of lower slot fish being caught along with a couple of chances at some really large ones which are a blast on light tackle!
We have been mostly catching and releasing the redfish. These fish are basically residents of our local waters and it’s important that we take care of them so we have a healthy population for generations to come. These fish are a lot of fun to catch and are under pressure throughout the year so we try to make an effort to never take an excessive amount of fish and to handle them carefully.
According to The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources our redfish numbers have rebounded some in the last year or so which is fantastic! We want to keep this trend going and will do our part in this.
Later in March we will see some of the large Black Drum coming nearshore to spawn as well as some bull redfish starting to show up late March through April. As the water continues to warm up things should really start to come to life!
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Epic Inshore Bite!
We caught plenty of redfish and they sure were happy to eat about anything we threw at them for 3 hours. They ate live shrimp, mud minnows, and artificial baits. We fished the inshore water of Hilton Head.
We fished the inshore waters of Hilton Head Island and caught a large quantity of fish keeping busy for three hours! During those three hours we threw live shrimp, live mud minnows, and artificial baits. It did not matter what we threw at them they wanted it all!
We targeted creek mouths as the tide was falling and we could see shrimp and other baits getting sucked out of the creeks. This caused a feeding frenzy of birds and fish for quite some time.
We mostly used a popping cork with a short leader to suspend our baits over the oysters where the redfish and flounder were staging up to ambush the bait as it flushed out. We were using light tackle Star Rods with Shimanos new Stradic 3000FM reels and what a combo those are. We threw quite a few ZMAN artificials too.
Stay tuned for fishing reports in the near future! We suspect the bite to continue to be good through the fall and into early winter as fish feed to bulk themselves up for the colder months.
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