Moved down with my wife for her new job in April and have been slowly (real slowly) putting a few pieces of the puzzle together this year mostly on the Wando and the Jetties as they are convenient when I get time to go.
What’s been really fun is to use 25+ years of tournament bass fishing knowledge on an entirely different group of fish species and see how it works (or doesn’t in many cases).
Topwater has been pretty much the same (reds, trout, and flounder all like it equally).
Bottom contact baits; same thing shakey heads, small finesse jigs, slow rolled swin baits along the bottom all good too.
Crank baits; not as good but have gotten a few reds to bite some square bills. Mid range cranks have not yielded much (4-10 foot range), and deep divers like a DD22 out on the jetties has caught all kinds of fish (trout, reds, ladyfish, bluefish, etc) but as in all crank bait fishing you must be making bottom contact which just means fishing parallel to the rocks so nothing new there.
Jerkbaits have been the biggest and most pleasant surprise. They are magic especially now that the water has cleared up some. Everything from 78mm to 110mm hard baits are getting bit and bit in big numbers. Same for soft plastics rigged weedless like a zoom fluke or DOA jerk shad on a 5/0 EWG and with a light weight belly hook. Same presentation, flats, along break edges, over oysters, and out on the jetties. Jerk bait fishing is one of my favorite techniques as I love clear water bass fishing and you get to see some fish take your bait if it’s clear enough which is pretty fun. Had a 3-4lb trout destroy a lucky craft pointer 78 out on the jetties this Saturday on the south side (outside) using 10# floro on a bait caster just like I would in any lake. Super fun bite and a great fight.
Spinner baits and chatter baits have not been the best for me yet so I may need to make adjustments like remove skirts, downsize, change blades, etc so that experiment goes on and will likely wait until warmer temps come back.