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Staying at Folly Beach for the week, Dave and Jack, his son, fished a half day morning charter. Jack quickly showed us how it was done by landing a nine pound redfish after a lengthy fight! The pair did a great job in windy conditions also catching more redfish and a bonnethead shark. Dad put a nice finishing touch on the trip by catching a six pound redfish with a D.O.A. shrimp under a popping cork.
In town to see his son, Dakota, Bruce booked an evening charter for both of them. While waiting for the water to get in the grass, we cast popping corks with live and D.O.A. shrimp at the banks and caught trout, ladyfish and flounder. Once the flats were flooded, Bruce caught two seven pound redfish we saw tailing in the grass while Dakota hooked up with another that broke us off. All three redfish ate a black/gold artificial grub.
Had a trip out of Folly Beach this morning that really showed how many seasonal species of fish are in our waters right now. Over the course of an hour, we caught bluefish, spanish mackerel, cobia, pompano and ladyfish! All of these fish took live shrimp under a popping cork. It was an amazing sight to see.
John had lived at Folly Beach for some time but had only fished from shore. For his birthday, he and Amelia chartered me for a half day trip. Starting close to low tide, we fished the flats as the water rose into the grass. Casting an artificial bait, John soon hooked into a very healthy redfish that put up quite a fight. It was his first Folly Beach redfish. Spent the second half of the trip catching trout and incidentally bonnethead shark using shrimp under a popping cork.
To celebrate John’s birthday, he and his fiancee, Danielle, joined me for a morning of Charleston trout fishing. Started casting popping corks for trout at our first two spots and found lots of little fish who wouldn’t leave our shrimp alone. At our next spot, Danielle landed a nice four pound trout and that got the ball rolling. We caught 20+ trout in the same area with constant action for the rest of the trip. All caught with either shrimp or finger mullet under a popping cork.
Paul and Amy warned me that they had not done much fishing before but by the way they landed fish throughout the trip you never would have known. Amy started us off by boating a flounder on a silver casting jig as we searched for fish in the Charleston harbor. We then switched to throwing live shrimp under popping corks for trout and sure enough both Paul and Amy landed several trout. We stayed with the popping corks as redfish came out of the grass with the falling tide. We had explosive hits not only on the cork but also on cracked blue crab fished on the bottom. These two don’t qualify as novices anymore!
On a week long vacation, John, Tyler and Jason booked a half day charter to try out inshore fishing. We started the trip throwing live shrimp and D.O.A. shrimp under popping corks at grass banks as the tide fell. The corks produced redfish, trout and bonnethead sharks. With low tide approaching, we switched over to fishing the flats. We found a large school of redfish who wanted nothing to do with artificial baits. However, they would eagerly eat cracked blue crab and we caught a 10lb. and a 9lb. redfish to end the trip.
Started fishing at first light in the Charleston harbor. Picked up ladyfish on topwater and then moved to sight fish to redfish on the flats. Found schools of redfish busting up shrimp at every stop we made. We were unable to get any takers at our first stop even with cracked blue crab. At the next flat, we started to dead stick live shrimp on the bottom and began hooking up with redfish. Ended the trip in a steady 8-9lb. redfish bite with fish happily devouring blue crab.
Visiting Folly Beach for the week, Donald and Clark, his daughter, made a fishing charter part of their vacation. Fortunately, we were able to get into some really nice redfish and spend most of the trip sight casting to schools of redfish on the flats. Clark put the first redfish in the boat at seven pounds and Dad followed with a nine pounder. We were able to hook into other fish in the school as well. All redfish caught on black/gold artificials.
Taking advantage of the long weekend, David and Nathan met me at first light for a half day charter. We started the day throwing topwater lures but focused on Kiawah flats fishing once the sun was up. We found a large school of redfish on our second spot and caught the first redfish on an artificial but then moved to tossing cracked blue crab. Both David and Nathan boated nice seven pound redfish and we lost several more. We changed locations on the flat and found another school that produced the biggest redfish of the day, an eleven pounder.
