So I’ve been on the water something like 15 hours and have fished a total of maybe 30 minutes while guiding the three different groups.
Trip 1 - Saturday late morning for a falling tide. Hit every point, oyster bar, and creek mouth for a couple of miles. I picked up a 15 inch flounder and I watched my client work his tail off toe get 1 red. Right at dead low it turned on for him with 4 fish in 4 casts. Each one took about 5 minutes to land and by the 4th he was DONE!!!
Left em biting so there would be enough energy left in the arms for the paddle back.
Trip 2 Sunday late morning - a 3 person yak charter. If you’ve never guided a 3 person trip, it’s sorta like herding cats. We covered about 2 river miles and I paddled just a tad under 9 according to my GPS. The trackback looked like a 2 year old had scribbled all over the screen. THe worst part was every idiot with gas money was on the water Jet skis, pontoon boats, jon boats, bow riders, idots pulling a passel of kids on tubes and every one of them blasting by 20 feet away at 30 mph. Just 1 red the entire day. 
Trip 3 Tuesday - 2 person charter at O dark thirty for low tide. Local guy and his dad who is a fishing guide in St Louis. Good morning on the water. River was slick as glass and reds were slamming bait against the bank, just not cooperating as well as they should. We paddled as far down as we wanted to be and drift fished back to the landing. One oyster bar gave up several fish until flipper moved in and spoiled our fun.
We crossed the river to hit some docks on the incoming and pecked away at reds. Randy picked up a nice 15 inch flounder and had a couple of others that decided to let go in route to the yak.
Nothing huge, but all in all a nice day resulting in a serious case of redfish thumb.
I’m not looking forward to going back to a desk.
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I know you guides work hard and every job has it’s downside but dang, 3 days of fishing, how I envy you. Sounds like you definitely got your exercise. After our first trip fishing on yak last week, I can’t wait to get back out there. Unfortunately it will have to wait a couple of weeks. Glad you dodged the parade of idiots on the water.
I enjoyed this post TB. I’ve learned useful stuff reading your posts.
Thanks PeaPod. I didn’t put a lot of “good” info in the original post.
Here’s the good parts
Trip 1 = bite really turned on at dead low. hot bait was quartered crab on a 3/0 circle. cut mullet was ignored. water clarity <1 foot
Trip 2 = bite never turned on. didn’t stay out til dead low. water was a friggin mess from boat traffic. fish were hunkered down. water clarity <1 INCH
Trip 3 = cut mullet on a 3/0 circle, live FM on a jig head, first hour of incoming it was ON. Slowed as the tide came up. water clarity >3 feet
Water temps in high 80’s
6 or 7 foot gator cruising the bank this morning. He ignored us, we watched him closely.
PINFISH ARE EVERYWHERE
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Dayum. Good stuff. I’m bookin you for my kayakin 13 y o. Really
Good info Tommy. Not asking for your exact fav spots but where were you? Stono? Wando?
I went out at dawn on Sat and hooked and lost several large somethings fishing mullet and MM on the bottom. Drag is not working right on one reel but I think my knots were coming undone for some reason that day.
New reels due in tomorrow.
The boat traffic on the Stono was crazy by 11AM. I got off the water but it looked downright dangerous out there. If I can get the new reels set up tomorow I’m going to try on Friday AM low tide. Maybe I’ll get a kayak pic for your contest 
(hard to do fishing solo though)
I hit the Wando fishing mostly different spots all 3 days. Stono tends to fish better for me at high tide. Go scouting at low tide and look for docks with easy access to deeper water and a reason for fish to go looking for food there at high tide.
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Funny. I’ve not been killing anything at high on the Stono so I thought I’d try low.
About the quartered crab for bait…I assume you mean blue crab? How big a crab (before he’s quartered)? Any quarter? Leave the claws on?
Crabs have to be 5" point to point to harvest. I break the claws off, pop off the shell and break or cut into quarters. The circle hook goes thru a leg opening then thru the belly shell.
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Thanks. I’ll have to try it one of these days. Who eats such a bait besides redfish?
other crabs, mud minnows, and bonnethead sharks. If there are reds or bonnetheads in the area the bait won’t sit long enough for the crabs or minnows to clean it out.
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I had a couple Reds hit crab like a freight train a few weeks ago when I took PacAttack out for a test paddle. It was crazy. Lately its been more action on the falling tide in my neighborhood.
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