Hi all,
I’m heading to Edisto beach for a week and the house we are staying at is situated on a lagoon/pond/lake. I was wondering if any of you have fished in it or know if there is anything in it worth trying for.
Lots of mullet. I always see them jumping in there. Get a net, catch the mullet and use them for bait on the beach or at the point. Everything loves fresh cut mullet in those areas.
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We just stayed on a lagoon off of Myrtle Street in the golf course. Our house deck overhung the water. My wife and daughters fished with frozen shrimp and wore out pinfish - like freshwater bream. They quit counting at 35. We could also see some very large fish swimming along the bank. Couldnt determine what they were, but they were probably in the 30"+. Couldnt get them to bite anything, so I dont know what they were.
X2 on the mullet. tons of them.
That is awesome! I’ve got my castnet and minnow trap ready to go. I’m still going to toss a gulp shrimp on a jig in there to see what happens. Thanks guys!
There’s all kinds of fish in those lagoons. A guy caught a small tarpon in one a few years back.
Daniel, my biggest concern was the lack of connections to big water. It seems like a pond or a lake as it doesn’t connect to the ocean or the marshes on the backside of Edisto. I’m just looking at this through google maps so it could be hidden by tree cover.
I stayed on dockside rd a couple weeks ago and there were two guys fishing that every night with finger mullet. i know of at least 4 over slot reds they caught in there. they were clipping the tails on their baits to put that stanky in the water
There’s culverts connecting most of those to the creek one way or another.
There are some “grown” redfish in those lagoons.
I can confirm that there are some big-ass Reds in those lagoons at times…my house is in Wyndham on one of the lagoons and I see them swimming around in there, especially in the Fall.Thing is…I’ve never been able to get them to bite ANYTHING ! Caught a lot of pin fish and mullet in there though.
Thanks everyone for the tips and suggestions. My 3 year old daughter and I will fish hard in the one behind our house and I will post pics of the fish if we catch any. We are leaving tomorrow to head down there and the suspense is KILLING me!!!
You’re going to have a great week! Can’t wait to hear about it.
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Originally posted by fishingfanaticThanks everyone for the tips and suggestions. My 3 year old daughter and I will fish hard in the one behind our house and I will post pics of the fish if we catch any. We are leaving tomorrow to head down there and the suspense is KILLING me!!!
I appreciate it Charley and I’m glad you enjoyed your first trip to Edisto! We decided to try visiting Edisto about five years ago and I have been in love with that place ever since. We have made it a family tradition to vacation their every year and I spend most of my free time thinking about the fishing down there even though I don’t usually catch anything worth bragging about. Thanks to your crabbing post, I will do a write up similar to that with my daughter and my fishing adventures!
The house we rent each year is in the bottorm corner of your pic. We have seen several flounder caught but nothing like a Red Fish or Tarpon.
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I hooked quite a few small redfish on shrimp. The biggest red I caught was in a crab pot believe it or not. It was around 14 inches. I did not do well down there and I fished both the lagoon and the surf hard. I caught a couple of whiting and shark in the surf and nothing but pinfish and little reds in the lagoon. I used mud minnows, shrimp(live and dead), squid, Gulp Minnows and shrimp on a jig, and fiddler crabs to no avail. It was probably my lack of experience but it was fun regardless!
Next time put a chunk of blue crab on a Carolina rig. Redfish and black drum will tear them up, tarpon too. Try a 5-9" live finger mullrt too for trout flounder and reds, if you can get live menhaden it shoild be great in that salt pond. Toss a popping cork or topwater plug as well
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