May 16th, 2015 Call 843-631-5055 if interested!
God Bless,
Capt Buddy Bizzell
Being on the water is a blessing, catching fish is a bonus!
“Come follow me.” Jesus said “I will make you a fisher of men.”
Matthew 4:19
Bad weather make-up day is Sunday the 17th.
Capt Buddy Bizzell
Edisto Palmetto Charters
803-603-2781
www.edistopalmetto.com
Being on the water is a blessing, catching fish is a bonus!
I’m in!
Capt Ron,
Good luck bro! My schedule does not work out for me for the 16th, but I am very happy to see Edisto having a Cobia tourny! We’ll be down the following week. Come by and visit, we’ll be in the blue fish house by EWT!
Capt Buddy Bizzell
Edisto Palmetto Charters
803-603-2781
www.edistopalmetto.com
Being on the water is a blessing, catching fish is a bonus!
I hate to be a negative, but with the sad state of our cobia populations, this just adds to the pressure on these fish - would rather see a moratorium on cobia fishing tournaments until we get more protective limits plus vigorous enforcement - the Combahee Light has become a parking lot of boats with fewer and fewer fish caught every year. Same problem over in the Broad River. Please urge conservation with your participants.
From the Beaufort forum is this very relevent post:
"Crisis with Beaufort County Cobia
Research by our South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has highlighted an impending crisis with our inshore family of spawning cobia due to overfishing. SCDNR and its Waddell Mariculture Center has become a national leader in cobia DNA research working closely with our local charter boat and recreational fishing community. Genetic analysis has identified two local families of cobia, one that comes in to spawn and one that stays out at our artificial reefs. Neither one tends to migrate north or south or mixes significantly with other families. While the offshore population appears to be in good shape, the spawning family that comes into our Port Royal Sound System shows a steady decline in the wild fish and an increase in the ratio of stocked fish. Because of the genetic difference between the two families, if we deplete one it may not be repopulated by another for many years. Although we fishermen want action, SCDNR is not empowered to set fishing regulations or limits, only the fishermen, enlisting the help of the legislature can do that.
On Friday May 8th at 6 PM, Dr. Michael Denson the head of SCDNR?s Marine Resources Research Institute will give a presentation at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center at Lemon Island detailing the background of the crisis and offering solutions to the fishermen. Unless one has heard Dr. Denson?s presentation it is very difficult to understand the complexity of the problem and make rational cobia management choices.
David Harter
Pres. HHI
I’m with P man!!! Look what the laws did to Santee and Murray striper fishing in a short time!
Definitely interested need more info. Is this tournament out of Edisto Marina?
I agree with P-man. It’s time to for all of us to pitch in and fix this. Go easy on the Cobia.
2004 Scout 187 Sportfish
115 Yamaha
Congrats to Capt Dillard Young on winning with a 37.5# cobia! Also congrats to Capt Jimmy Skinner and my local boy Wesely Fogle for placing 2nd and 3rd respectively!
Capt Buddy Bizzell
Edisto Palmetto Charters
803-603-2781
www.edistopalmetto.com
Being on the water is a blessing, catching fish is a bonus!
A few years ago, it would have taken a 60+pounder to win a tourny. We need to help DNR and start raising hell with the legislature to take the setting of game seasons and limits out of the hands of politicians and place the responsibilities with a coalition of biologists, professionals, and sportsmen who want to conservatively manage the resource. I drove across the Broad River bridge in Beaufort last Thur at slack tide and saw one boat fishing. That’s the telling tale right there my friends.
P-Man
Sea Hunt 240 Triton w/Yamaha F250
“Daddy’s Girl”
I agree with the idea of conservation of the population, its been a slow cobia season in Beaufort. I was at the dock in HHI this past week and saw a boat of 5 guys bragging about taking home nine that day from near shore in and around the PRS. Boat limits or per person limits need to change.