Captain
Whit Edmonds

Member since April 2023 Mount Pleasant, United States
Background
I have been fishing since before I could walk, and it is second nature to me now. I have fished tournaments all around the country picking up knew knowledge at every fishery to bring home with me. I am on the water 3-5 days a week. I truly love having the opportunity to share my passion with others. Being able to share my experience with others and hopefully teach people to be better anglers or instill a new hobby just entisifys my passion for the sport! My goal for every trip is not only to be successful and have a fun time on the water but send the anglers home with something, whether that be a new knowledge set for experienced anglers or a new passion for beginners! Rather than doing the same thing every trip, I make sure we go at the best time of day to fish and that the style of fishing we do will be the most enjoyable to that specific customer. My favorite fishing style is sight fishing for redfish from my poling platform in super shallow creeks during low tide. My other passions include promoting wildlife conservation by teaching our local community and assisting local biologists as well as teaching fishing to children.
Techniques
I love fishing artificial and covering water, however, I am well equipped for live bait fishing if it is tough. The style of fishing we do can be catered to your experience and preference!

Hey, I'm Captain Whit Edmonds

Mount Pleasant, United States
Background
I have been fishing since before I could walk, and it is second nature to me now. I have fished tournaments all around the country picking up knew knowledge at every fishery to bring home with me. I am on the water 3-5 days a week. I truly love having the opportunity to share my passion with others. Being able to share my experience with others and hopefully teach people to be better anglers or instill a new hobby just entisifys my passion for the sport! My goal for every trip is not only to be successful and have a fun time on the water but send the anglers home with something, whether that be a new knowledge set for experienced anglers or a new passion for beginners! Rather than doing the same thing every trip, I make sure we go at the best time of day to fish and that the style of fishing we do will be the most enjoyable to that specific customer. My favorite fishing style is sight fishing for redfish from my poling platform in super shallow creeks during low tide. My other passions include promoting wildlife conservation by teaching our local community and assisting local biologists as well as teaching fishing to children.
Techniques
I love fishing artificial and covering water, however, I am well equipped for live bait fishing if it is tough. The style of fishing we do can be catered to your experience and preference!
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Fish Retriever Charters (Capt.Whit)

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4.9 / 5
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Great weather, great fishing
Great weather, great fishing
Apr 7, 2025 Mount Pleasant
The weather has been hot and the boaters are back on the water. I definitely have had to be more carefull about where we fish to get away from the other anglers. However, I seem to have found places to get away and have to myself. Overall, the fishing for me has been excellent. Today we had a low tide at sunrise which is a best case scenario for aoght fishing. The wayer is cool and light is low so the fosh ate actuve plus with the water. Is low enough you can see the ifha waking around. The first two hors od the day were excellent, there were wither tailing fish of fish blowing baot out of the water about as often as you could cast. They were all ready to eat too. After the sum got up, it did get a little tougher. At that point i am more keen to find some docks to throw shrimp at for the best numbers. There were also some nice sized trout in onw of the creeks.
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February Fishing
February Fishing
Feb 11, 2025 Mount Pleasant
This time of year can be very pleasent on the water, especially when the weather is nice which we have been very lucky with the last few weeks. The biggestt favtor to this, is there just are not that many other boats out and it allows us to really relax and do our own thing most days. Along with that, the fishing has been great. The redfish have been fired up and biting throughout the begining of the year. The trout were initially a bit slow after the snow storm but as of the last few days have started biting good again as well. The brackish trips are producing far more on the artificial front. Most of these have been fishing smaller lures around deeper 10 foot of water structure. You will also pick up trout and bass the same way. On the inshore front closer to the cost, the fish have been very keyed on baby shrimp and various baitfish fry. There are a few way to catch them. Pitching livebait in conjestion points at low tode where the fish group up has been done great and is my recommendation for the best numbers. However, many days there are also quite a few school available for sight fishing on the flats. The sight fishing has been significantly harder, however the fish can be caught by using very small (2inch) plastics and cast far in fromt of where they swim in order not to spook them. The trout have been hanging in the middle of some deeper bends of large creeks. When we do come across trout, my advanced live forward facing sonar helps ensure we are castimg right on top of these deeper schools. One perk about this time of year, is we can be very versatile, if there are specific ways you want to fish. Weather that is, standard live bait fishing, covering water with artificials around cover or wven soght fishing.
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Cold water update!
Cold water update!
Jan 29, 2025 Mount Pleasant
The recent snow we had gave us almost record breaking cold water temps. In most areas, it looks like we were able to avoid a fish kill because the fish made it out deep before hand. Although, the seatrout were mostly inactive last week, we could still see them alive and well on out Live Forward Facing Sonar. With this warm week, we expect them to become more active and produce more on our trips as they have been. The redfish on the other hand, produced good numbers for us still last week. There are a few different patterns to target them now depending on what you are after. One trip we fished deeper water in the 10-15 foot range. This produced around 30 large redfish and was very action packed for us and by far the best method in the colder water. However, sight fishing can still be done too. One creek we actually saw several hundred big redfish cruising the shallows. The key in the cold here was finding samdy bottom instead of mud because the sand picks up more heat from the sun. The sight fishing is much more challenging than fishing deeper water or live bait fishing because of the colder water in the shallows. However is is still an incredible sight to see and the ones who do bite provide the most reqarding feeling! We have a couple of warmer weeks inbound that should get the trout more fired up and the redfish should bite better on all of their patterns.
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Brackish bite is on
Brackish bite is on
Jan 4, 2025 Mount Pleasant
The weather has been changing a lot lately as we egt into winter. We have had still some incredible inshore days but also some tougher ones. I would say it is outside of peak season now but still very good over all. One thing that has gotten even better during the winter transition is our brackish fishing. These fish further up the river near freshwater seem to really fore up once it gets colder. We have been running all artificials on these trips and in many situations catch redfish and bass off of the same spots which is something you can do very few places. The numbers for both reds and bass are great and there ate also often seatrout ans saltwater striper that show up as well!
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Hot redfishing continues
Hot redfishing continues
Dec 23, 2024 Mount Pleasant
Todays trip was a quick one. We fished just two spots, we fished a trout spot and a redfish spot. The trout spot was a less obvious creek mouth with a sandy point and sparce rocks. Here we had a decent trout bite for the hour we stayed using mud minnows. After that, we went to a popular fishing area, however we far back in the creek past where the other boats are able to get to. There is a deeper hole there. We went at low tide when the redfish condense in the hole to wait on the water to come back in. The last week the hole has ad large numbers in it and when timed right we had found fresh fish consistantly replenishing it from the back of the creek as the tide falls further. Here they were feeding on shrimp heavily. We wven saw some blowing live shrimp out of the water alomg the bank. We caught fish quickly almost every cast the rest of the trip and lost count of how many we caught. We had many doible ups and wven two triple ups on fish. This was definitely as good as a trip can get and not wvery day is necessarily this good. However, this cooler weather has had them fired up very well and most trips are very productive right now.
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Water is cold and the fishing is hot!
Water is cold and the fishing is hot!
Dec 17, 2024 Mount Pleasant
The super hot foshing is still going on and we dont see any reason why it should stop soon. Today we fished 8 hours. We spent the first couple searching around and picked off some trout here and there. Finally we pulled i to a great creek where we were able to spemd the rest of the trip putting around 50 redfish in the boat! There are lots of ways to catch fish now. The seatrout are schooled up well and can be caught around hard bottom banks and creek mouths using corks with minnows or small soft plastics. The redfish bit has also been very good and we are seeing larger schools of them. Low tide offers chances to find them in depresions within creeks and and cruising the shallows feeding. Most can be caught fishing target spot like these depresjons while you may also see some waking in the shallows that can be sight fished. Virtually all of the reds we see feeding right now are blowing up on small creek shrimp. Additionally, redfish can also be caught on secluded main creek docks.
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Early Start, Big Smiles, Great Catches

VERIFIED   NEW  4 Hour inshore on August 17, 2025
What an incredible morning fishing with Captain Whit! We pushed off at 6am from Mount Pleasant and kicked things off with a...
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Absolutely amazing fishing trip

VERIFIED   Evening 3 hour Bull Red/ Shark Trip on July 24, 2025
We went out for a short 3 hour shark/bull redfish trip on July 24, 2025. Captain Witt got us a very nice fine tooth shark when...
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Inshore Trip 10/18

Full Day Trip โ€“ Inshore on October 18, 2024
Great trip with Capt. Whit for inshore fishing. We got on fish shortly after launching and stayed busy the entire day. Whit...
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Nicholas W.
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Great way to start our weekend trip!

VERIFIED   Morning 3 Hour Shark/Bull Red Trip on July 12, 2025
Whit was awesome, kept in touch with me weeks in advance and made sure to update me on what the fishing had been looking like...
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Had a great time on the shark/bull red trip

VERIFIED   Morning 3 Hour Shark/Bull Red Trip on April 27, 2025
Did the shark/bull red trip with Captain Whit. Super cool guy, made the experience even better. Price was really affordable...
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