Captain
Cory Johnston

Member since August 2023 Folly Beach, United States
Background
Meet Cory Johnston, your enthusiastic guide to thrilling fishing adventures in beautiful Folly Beach, South Carolina. He's your go-to expert when it comes to finding the most exciting spots for catching Sharks and many other fish species right from the shoreline. Plus, he's got a special setup with kayaks to reel in those colossal fish! Get ready to embark on a one-of-a-kind, action-packed adventure with your loved ones. Let the excitement begin!
Techniques
Land based shark fishing. Where you take baits from the land/beach/shore far out into the water with drones, kayaks,or boats and come back to shore and fish from the beach

Hey, I'm Captain Cory Johnston

Folly Beach, United States
Background
Meet Cory Johnston, your enthusiastic guide to thrilling fishing adventures in beautiful Folly Beach, South Carolina. He's your go-to expert when it comes to finding the most exciting spots for catching Sharks and many other fish species right from the shoreline. Plus, he's got a special setup with kayaks to reel in those colossal fish! Get ready to embark on a one-of-a-kind, action-packed adventure with your loved ones. Let the excitement begin!
Techniques
Land based shark fishing. Where you take baits from the land/beach/shore far out into the water with drones, kayaks,or boats and come back to shore and fish from the beach
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My Charter Listing

Charleston Shark and Surf

Excellent
5.0 / 5
(47 reviews)
Folly Beach
 3 bookings in the past week.
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Trips from US $350

Fishing Reports

The weather water and the bite are heati
The weather water and the bite are heati
Mar 15, 2025 Folly Beach
We had a lot of kids (10) and 5 adults who wanted to catch and see some big shark so knowing the bite was slow and the beach would be a ghost town so we put out a mega spread (11rods!!) from the up close in the surf with the light tackle to 600 plus yards off the beach with big reels. We ended up go 3/4 on large sharks on the trip. The biggest shark was a sandbar shark over 7ft the other two sharks were sandtiger sharks close to 5ft. Everyone took turns fighting the fish, big fish are a challenge and a lot of work. The big fish was caught on the 600 yd drop thats over a third of a mile!!! Talk about a sea monster. The meduim sized tackle produced the two 4-5 ft sand tigers which put up a good fight on that tackle. The surf casting was producing whiting, a smaller fish that is common in the surf and fished with lighter tackle.
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The Fall fishing is in full effect!
The Fall fishing is in full effect!
Nov 11, 2024 Folly Beach
The fishing has fully switched over to the fall pattern. A mix of sharks, rays and redfish have been caught on the most recent trips. The sandbar sharks have been the most common catch with their size ranging from about 3-7ft with some of them putting up some real fights. The warm weather lately really has the fish fired up and has extended out season. A good time to come fish before the season ends in a few weeks
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The big fish are biting
The big fish are biting
Oct 10, 2024 Folly Beach
Some picks from the first week of october. Most the trips lately have been producing multiple species and big fish each trip with the red fish bite being very good and the fall sharks showing up and putting up some heavy fights. Day fishing and night fishing has been excellent
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The fishing is in fire
The fishing is in fire
Sep 4, 2024 Folly Beach
We had a tough time aligning fishing days and good weather and had to cancel a lot of trips in August do to high storm winds, current and thunderstorms at times. The trips we have been making it out on have been pretty good fishing. We are catching lots of sharks in the 3-5 ft range some in the 6-8 ft range and some big big giant ones too. Most nights we have been catch 3-5 different species of sharks but right now we have 11 different species of sharks from 3-13ft in our water which makes it even more fun because you never know which one youll catch.
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Have you ever caught a large shark?
Have you ever caught a large shark?
Jul 27, 2024 Folly Beach
The trip started with some quick action on smaller sharks and then it got slow for a little while and then we hooked fought and landed this beast of a lemon shark
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Customer reviews

Rating summary
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Equipment
Excellent
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Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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One of a Kind !!!!!!
One of a Kind !!!!!!
Great experience!
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Friendly captain
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Appropriate for children
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Satisfied with the boat
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Chris C.
Excellent
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Sharks, sharks, sharks

VERIFIED   3 Hour Trip โ€“ mixed Tackle (AM) on July 19, 2024
Cory was fun and friendly, and we caught several sharks
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Josh N.
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Fishing with Cory

VERIFIED   3 Hour Trip โ€“ mixed Tackle (AM) on October 12, 2024
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Thomas S.
Excellent
4.7 / 5
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Cory and his dad, Alvin, have this game down. Great knowledge and insight with enthusiasm. Anyone can enjoy the experience.

VERIFIED   Late season special Am on November 10, 2024
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Josh D.
Excellent
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Excellent
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Amazing and Knowledgeable

VERIFIED   3 Hour Trip โ€“ mixed Tackle (AM) on October 7, 2023
If youโ€™ve fished or hunted before you know that sometimes patience pays off and thatโ€™s what happened today. Bite was slow...
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Zac M.
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PHENOMENAL

VERIFIED   3 Hour Trip โ€“ mixed tackle (PM) on October 11, 2023
Excellent guided experience! Great information on every species we caught (Red drum (x3 all 36+โ€) Sandbar shark, Bonnet head...
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