Charleston Sport Fishing
King Mackerel are Biting!
May 29th, 2009
May 28
On Thursday, after loading the baitwell with frisky menhadden, we made our way offshore in a 3 to 4 foot southwesterly swell to look for cobia on the shipping channel buoys and later move further offshore to troll for some kings. The first buoy I checked didn’t have any cobia, but we convinced a 40lb amberjack to take a menhadden. None of the other buoys produced any fish so we put the spoons and ballyhoo out to get some kingfish. The first hour didn’t produce any strikes. As soon as I reached the Charleston 60 artificial reef, two rods went off and a few minutes later we landed two king mackerel in the 15lb range. The action was pretty good the rest of the day with a dozen more kings, another amberjack, and a nice spanish mackerel!
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The Shipping Channel Buoys Were Hot!
May 14th, 2009
May 8th
On friday the 8th of May I had a nice newlywed couple that were looking to catch their first big offshore fish! Never having been offshore, they nervously booked a 6 hour trip not knowing what to expect. I wanted to check the shipping channel buoys for cobia because I have been receiving good reports from some other captains. After a long slow ride out on a choppy sea we finally reached the first buoy. Unfortunatly three buoys later we hadn’t spotted a fish! Finally on the fourth buoy we spotted a huge school of amberjacks and along with them was a 50lb. cobia! I tried to hook the cobia, but a big amberjack pushed him out the way and gobbled the bait. Thirty minutes later we landed a nice amberjack. A few hours later we landed three more, and broke off three more on the buoy. There was no sign of the cobia that we had first seen. We then switched gears and trolled for some king mackerel. The rest of the trip didn’t produce any kings, but we did end up with a big gag grouper that we caught on a bomber plug trolled over the top of the Frederick Day Wreck.
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Big Red Snapper are Biting!
May 14th, 2009
April 23th,
Me and a few of my friends from the Barrier Island Ecotours had been planning a bottom fishing trip for months that finally came together when all of our schedules allowed us to fish together. It was a beautiful morning and we started out looking for some live bait. After an hour of searching, I loaded the cast net with dozens of frisky menhadden. The ocean was calm so we had a great ride out spotting a migration of ocean sunfish and seeing many loggerhead turtles. All of these we took as good omens for a great day of fishing. The first spot we went to in about 90ft of water produced a lot of vermillion snapper, pink snapper, black sea bass, and a few nice red snapper. When the fishing slowed there we moved on to a location south about 8 miles in a hundred feet of water that immediately produced a limit of big red snapper to 15lbs. We also limited out on all the other snapper species. Lots of amberjack and sharpnose sharks were released and we even caught a big bluefish. What a great day!
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