I’m living anchored on a sailboat across from the City Marina, the Megadock off of hwy 17, on the Ashley river.
Food is just eating up all my savings fast. I need to figure out a way to legally catch some food.
These waters are unusually fast moving and the current changes direction 4 times a day. The temperature is around 55 deg F. I’ve tried throwing a bobber & some bait off my boat but usually the wind is constantly moving the boat around from one place to another & in different directions, so, the line gets moved around. My biggest question is what’s the easiest way to catch some calories? I don’t mind watching the bobber for an hour, if I’ll end up catching some dinner, but is there a way I can set a line & forget about it?
I’ve got a dinghi I can use to row to the old sunken boat nearby, or land, or the bridges, if they have more fish. I see plenty of fish on my GPS depthsounder, but, I’ve only seen dolphins in the water. Most of the time the water is so murckey, there’s no seeing in it anyways. I thought about spear-fishing, but, I have no idea what the visibility would be, or if I could swim faster than the currents! I’d have to use a tide-chart if I did try it.
I read that flounder are easy to jig at night, but then I read also that there are laws outlawing anything but pole fishing in the Ashley & the Ashapoo near downtown Charleston. That would mark out the flounder idea, but I could crab. I through an old piece of smelly meat over the boat, but nothing ever touched it & it was out there for days, surprisingly.
I also hear that you can scrape the oysters off the bridge supports and catch more fish that way, but chumming is illegal too, so, that’s probably out. There are a few tiny streams near my anchorage. Also, I don’t care if it’s “trash” fish. If it’s legal, I’m interested. I hear there are a lot of rays in this river.
So what’s the most productive method for fishing off of an anchored sailboat in the Ashley river? I’ve caught maybe 4 fish in my life, when I was a
