Fishing Report: 3/25/08
Trout are back and they are biting, they are hitting white and rootbeer swimming
mullet and shrimp gulp bait, and live shrimp.
Redfish are still schooling in large numbers, however they are not as skittish
as they have been, due to the climbing water temperature as bait is getting to
be more plentiful. Tight lines. - Capt. Steve
Fishing Report: 4/01/08
Fishing is good the last few
days in the Ashepoo/Coosaw cut. The trout catch
is great! All of them where keepers, even a few nice gators in
the double digits. Redfish are schooling in the low tide. Closer
to high tide the larger ones seem to be scattered and the smaller
ones seem to be next to the bank, hitting on Gulp swimming mullet
(camo) and mud minnows under a cork. Managed to grab a keeper flounder,
(an early treat) made a great crispy scoured delight with a little
honeydew, pineapple chutney, for me and the wife, KEEP YOUR BAIT
FRESH!
- Capt. Steve
Fishing Report:
4/29/08
Caught 14 mahi-mahi (unfortunatetly
no pics of them). However I have a nice picture
of a 53 lbs. wahoo, triple tail, and an eagle, caught
triple tail and a handfull of dolphin around a Home
Depot shopping cart floating around, we fished S.W.
of the deli.
Let's go fishing! - Capt. Steve
(See Photo Gallery)
Fishing Report: 05/01/08
Shopping Cart Full of Fish
Had a great offshore trip over the
weekend with my friend Capt. Mike Sackman. We decided to fish south
of the Deli. Things started a bit slow. We trolled for about 90 minutes,
catching only one Dolphin. Finally we spotted a floater (it was a
Home Depot shopping cart), as we trolled by it, I noticed there were
Triple Tail all over and in it. As we went by it all 4 lines started
screaming, Dolphin on everyone. We boated two of the four.
After getting reorganized, we went back to the shopping
cart and free-lined for Dolphin. I caught my first Triple Tail of
the year. All in all, we brought back 14 Dolphin, three of which
were 25 lbs, 3 Triple Tails and I hooked and landed a 53 lbs. Wahoo-
a reel treat!
Thanks Mike for a great trip.
The inshore bite is as expected for this time of
the year. There are a lot of early Flounder in the creek mouths and
around structure. The Trout have finally turned on. They are excited
with the increasing H20 temp.
I’ve been Cobia fishing twice and but no luck yet.
There have been a handful of 25 pounders around the bridge. I can
assure you; I will put one or two in the boat this week.
Call me to make your Cobia reservations now.
Tight Lines,
Capt. Steve
Fishing Report:
05/13/08
Birthday Brownie
The Cobia have finally invaded the
Broad River. They are stacked up at the Bridge, the Cobia Hole and
the Turtle and the boats are too. It's no secret when those Brownies
arrive, any avid South Carolina angler knows when the water hits
68' they're here! The bigger ones seem to follow shortly thereafter.
People drive here from all over the state, pros to amateurs. You
will see some of the finest equipment on the water, as well as some
of the not so fine. We saw a john boat almost sink at the bridge
last Thursday. Anyway, let's get to the point; we caught about a
dozen last week. My longtime friend Tim Kemp, from Calabash, N.C,
came to visit for a few days. He is a Kingfish specialist who fishes
the SKA and FLW. Tim caught a nice 45 pounder. Yesterday was my birthday
and all I wanted to do was catch a cobia. Even though the water was
nasty 3-4 foot chop, we went anyway and bagged a decent 25 pounder;
brought him home for a nice birthday dinner.
Give me a call if you want a 2008 cobia.
Capt. Steve
(See Photo Gallery)
Fishing Report:
06/09/08
Atack of the Cobias
They are still here in good numbers.
The big challenge has been keeping the bait out of the jaws of the
Sharkys! Sighting is the way to go for 'em. These fish will stick
around a few more weeks and I've been averaging a few in the box
each trip. The Silver Kings (Tarpoon) are slowly arriving in the
sound and will soon be stacking up. They are a lot easier to catch
when they first arrive in the sound and before they head up into
the creeks. Rumors of few landed already; I will be posting Tarpoon
pictures soon!
Fished the Annual Beaufort Water Festival Tournament last Saturday with Barry,
an old friend of mine I use to work with at Budweiser. We caught many Reds, mostly
18 and 19 inchers. Did manage to grab a 23 1/2 incher so he had to go back in
the water. Barry specializes in Flounder, so we caught many Flattys, unfortunately
a 1.6 lbs. only got us 3rd place. If we had weighed in earlier it would have
gotten us 2nd (we tied). Also weighed in a nice Trout, about 2 lbs. It was fun
day, always nice to learn new flounder tricks. They are mostly in the creeks
and will be as long as the bait fish stay there and then they will head out for
structure such as jettys, piers, docks, etc.
LETS FISH !
Capt. Steve
Fishing Report: 08/04/08
SIZZLIN HOT SUMMER BITE
It's getting to be the middle of
the summer and the bite is sizzlin hot, just like the weather. I
can't begin to tell you how many redfish and trout we have caught
in the last month, mostly in the creek mouths around oyster beds.
The Reds have been really good in the grass around high tide, and
the trout have been hanging around the grass line. Flounder are strong
and starting to move out of the creeks and in to and around structure,
mainly rocks and docks. It's a great time of year to catch flounder.
I spend a lot of time sweating over structure for flat fish in the
afternoon when it is toasty outside. On the larger side, Tarpon are
here thick. I see them rolling and jumping on an almost daily basis.
They are enjoying the buffets of Menhaden, which are scattered throughout
the sound and the Broad River in very large schools. Just look for
the diving pelicans. You can find Tarpon from St. Helena Sound to
the Port Royal Sound and all the way up to Grays Hill and past. A
few Cobia still hanging out, but not many. Caught one in a rip near
Hilton Head last week.
Due to my friends from Tennessee
(Phillip and Dave) corks are no longer corks and floats are no longer
floats, they are now known as Strike Indicators. Give me a call and
let's go wet a line...
Capt. Steve
Fishing Report:
Fripp Flounder Frenzy
August 18, 2008
I have always enjoyed Flounder fishing
at Fripp Island. The Flounder show up once the weather is good and
hot. I have hit it about once a week since July always producing
a handful of fish, until today. Absolutely crushed it today! Kept
count up to 20- caught 15-20 more after that. I started out using
mud minnows and mullet, caught one Flounder and on Trout. Then I
decided to go with ole faithful, Gulp Swimming Mullet (rootbeer & white).
Almost every cast produced a flounder with a few nice trout mixed
in. The Flat Fish Bite at Fripp is finally here! Called
my friend Capt. Mike Sackman- just to tell a few fish tales- to which
he labeled me the Flounder Pounder. Kinda like that one.
Had an all day trip with Gregg from
Texas last Saturday. He told me he does a lot of fishing in Venice.
I told him “please not have Venice expectations”. We had pretty
close to a Venice day. Caught about 2 dozen redfish, a nice pompano
and a fat trout. Almost all the reds were keepers. Used an array
of bait from shrimp with a cork, peanut pogies, mullet and the trusty,
always smelling good Gulp. Look forward to Gregg moving here in
the Spring and showing him a few more spots as well as some Cobia
Tactics.
Catch you on the next tide,
Capt. Steve
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