Fresh Cooper River Fishing Reports

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!

Dont let the cold temps fool ya! Its a great time of year to be fishing!

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.

With the water temps dropping, these Redfish are beginning to school up and can be found in super shallow water!

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.

Some winter time studs?