Mornings are the ticket righ now!
May 21, 2025 Mount Pleasant 2 photos
Redfish
Redfish

Trip Summary

The weather is hot and there are lots of boaters and angler out right now. This often makes the fishing a bit tougher for many. However, lately we have still been finding lots of big hungry fish. Especially if you are wishing to thrpw lures and sight fish. Getting out right at sunrise seems to really be the ticket. The first several hours of the morning fishing have been extremely active on the bank and blowing sheimp out of the water. Topwaters lures have also produced a lot of bites while covering water between where we see fish actively working. This bite has mostly been for redfish, however a big torut on the topwater has been a comlon occurence too.
Whit Edmonds
Mount-pleasant, South Carolina, United States
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Come out and experience some of the world class fishing Charleston has to offer! My 19 and a 1/2 foot Sea Pro bay boat comfortably fishes four people while also still getting i to all the shallow places redfish like to live. Redfish are what we specialize...

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Sight fishing remains one of the best wa
Sight fishing remains one of the best wa
May 13, 2025
These trips I recommend no more than two peope and typically takes a little bit of prior fishimg experience. However, there is mothing more fun in the inshore scene in my opinion. Picture a cool morning before a hot day, while the other guide boats have not even touched the water. As we make are initial drive out, we see a sunrise over the marsh and dolphins playing in the river. Right as the sun is just shining enough light to make our first casts, we pull into a shallow flat in just a foot of water. Each angler holds and artificial lure as we slowly ease around looking for wakes from actively feeding redfish against the bank. Suddenly we see 20 or 30 huge wakes on the bank and shrimp getting blown oht of the water. That is when you make your first cast and have a long powerful fight with some light 10 pound line. Taking advantage of these cool mornings is great right now, because during the first hour, the redfish are active enough that you can see their wakes as the feed up aggressively from a distance. The key is to cast well ahead of them and let them swim into where your lure is. You can also buy a few furocious bites on a topwater right now during these same conditions. As the days goes on, the redfish become a bit less active. We may still be able to use the sun to our advantage after it heats up by actually seeing one sitting somewhere or perhaps switch to a bit of structure fishing woth the same lures. Although we may not always, get as many bites as live bait trips doing this, the bites you do get are far more rewarding.
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