A Week Of Saltwater

[FishinsMyLife]

I've been at the beach for the last week, and I did a lot of fishing. I caught a good many fish with only a few that I consider "good fish," but most weren't of bragging size or desirable species. I caught:

61 Pinfish
10 Sharks
3 Stingrays
2 Flounder
2 Spots
1 Redfish
1 White Grunt
1 Lizardfish
1 Black Sea Bass
1 Oyster Toadfish
1 Black Drum
1 Smooth Butterfly Ray
1 Croaker

This is what happened when I got a Redfish up to the dock and he decided to make another run. It was on a double hook rig that I bought at BPS.

It was dark when I caught this Redfish, so sorry for the kitchen picture, but that fish was getting eaten :mrgreen: It felt better to catch a redfish on my own with bait I caught instead of paying someone to put me on the fish.

This Black Drum wasn't big, but he was the only one caught that I saw. There were always other people fishing off of the dock for the condos in the creek.

There are some pictures on my brother's SLR that look a lot better, and I'll post them up when I can.

 

[LeftCoastAngler]

Nice two spotter. 8) They're aren't no size limits on redfish in SC? That'd be a short one here in FL... Nice catches though. Sounds like the bite was on.
What were you using fer bait? High/Low tide? Do they have oyster bars where you were at? What's the area like that you fish? Marshy? BridgePlyins? OysterBars?

~LCA.

 

[jkbirocz]

Nice catchin =D> it is always more satisfying when you catch fish without help from others. I will be in NC for a week in early August, hopefully I will find some fish, we went on a head boat the past two years and caught plenty of fish. This year I am not sure if we will make it out on the boat, as last year my gf's mom got horribly seasick, along with 3/4 of the entire boat I still caught tons of fish though so I was happy.

 

[FishinsMyLife]

The slot for Reds is 15-23 inches and that one was a hair over 21. I caught most of the Stingrays, Sharks, Redfish, Black Drum, and Croaker on live shrimp. Most of the other species were caught on cut Pinfish (passing the time with a cork and bream hook when I had another rod out) and were not sizable. Some sharks were also caught on mudminnows or finger Mullet. The small fish I caught on cut Pinfish could be caught any time around the legs of the non-floating part of the dock, while the more desirable species were caught on an incoming tide shortly after low tide.. The sharks came at all times.

From what I could tell from the dock, the bottom consisted of mud with scattered oyster beds. There was a lot of grass on the other side of the creek, which was a good ways off. I was fishing at one of the widest points before the creek opens up to the ocean. Close to the shore and the exposed bottom at low tide was all oyster beds. I caught the better fish in shallower water instead of casting into the much deeper channel.

Most people that fished were using shrimp from a grocery store with bass sized hooks for bait and were constantly getting picked clean by Pinfish, and they couldn't understand why the couldn't catch anything. One guy that did catch a hand sized Pinfish and he hooked it back on and proceeded to get broken off on a pretty big fish that he didn't even turn. I tried live pinfish for the rest of the week without results.


Does anyone know how to get a picture off Google Earth into my post? It would help in describing this area.

 

[LeftCoastAngler]

Sounds similar to our backwaters too... I fish alot of the outside edges of the rivers when they dump into Tampa Bay... Brackish waters... Yeah, people'd be suprised what you can catch in 2ft of water! Most of my fishing is shallow aswell... That's why my rig needs to stay light... :wink:

We get the same kinda baitfish here too... Pinnys, backwater chubs or mud minnows... Some of them cigar minnows, spanish dines... etc... Same stuff...

Try free-linin' something in that channel two or three feet under a cork! It'll be big whatever takes it...

~LCA.

 

[Captain Ahab]

Great job - how did you keep count?

After three I lose count completely :shock:

 

[Waterwings]

That's a bunch of catchin'! Good job! 8)

 

[DocWatson]

Does anyone know how to get a picture off Google Earth into my post? It would help in describing this area.

You can use the Print Scrn key to capture the entire screen and then paste it into Paint or another image manipulation program like PaintShop Pro and work with it or save it as is (that would be a rather large image). HTH

 

[FishinsMyLife]

Thanks DocWatson.

 

[DocWatson]

Glad to help. I was just playing with Google Earth and found that you can copy the screen to the clipboard by going to Edit>Copy Image and then pasting the results into Paint. Using this you just get just the image and not all the navigational stuff around the edges.

Is this the place ???

 

[FishinsMyLife]

Is this the place ???

Yeah it is! How did you know?

 

[DocWatson]

Is this the place ???

Yeah it is! How did you know?

Google Earth. If you zoom in on the area, there are 3 points of interest dots to the right of that pier you were fishing from, near the marina. Click on the lower one to bring up that picture.