Finally a sunny day in the beautiful Lowcountry! Started out the day deep holing shrimp in about 15-20′ of water. The menhaden were a little harder to find than most days but as the sun came up, they started showing up. Quickly loaded up the live well for the 4 hour trip ahead.
The winds finally cooperated with us and wasn’t the usual strong southwest wind. We were able to set up on structure in the harbor with no problem, caught a few 30″-35″ bull redfish. The customers decided they had enough big fish and wanted to look for a few fillets for dinner so we moved inshore.
It was an incoming tide and the water was moving pretty good as we were fishing around a full moon which typically makes the water move a little faster than normal causing bigger high tides ans lower low tides. We set up on a grass edge, the water was just touching the reeds of the marsh grass. BOOM! Trout after trout with a few keepers and a few that i could tell were breeder trout, we let her swim another day. We moved further up the bank to a spot that i know holds some slot (15′”-23″) redfish. Threw the deep hole shrimp i had caught that morning on a porking cork and hooked up to a mid 20″ slot redfish. A few moments later we hooked up on something that took drag for long enough for me to think that we may get spooled. Finally landed a 34″ 14 Ib red drum. Caught a few more of the big boys then headed out to catch sharks in the havor before we had to run in.
August is usually a very hard month for creek fishing but it has produced many sucessful trips. Fishing being this good makes me more and more excited about the fall months like October, November and December. Give us a call and lets have a fishing trip you will never forget! You dont know if you dont go!