I’m planning on fishing the upper Wando this Sunday targeting Reds / Trout. I don’t have a ton of experience inshore so looking for some advice on approaches with all the rain we’ve been having (maybe it doesn’t matter?). My usual MO is jig heads with soft plastics or poppers with mud minnows or shrimp. Any type of structure better than other or bait vs artificial or try another type of lure with noise?
Thanks in advance!
Andy
“And when a pony he comes riding by you better set your sweet ass on it”
more to do with the prevailing temperature and pressure trends, i’d imagine.
tiny tides, clear water, dropping temps, disappearing bait- anything you throw should get eaten, the last couple days have been ridiculous on the trout in 5-6’ with cloud cover. getcha some trout eye jig heads and some z-man opening night paddletails! bone colored spook jr should cover the top pretty well, add a subsurface plug like mirrodine and a live bait rod with a float… your arsenal is ready.
I’m wondering the same thing as I too am planning on hitting the salt on Sunday. I live in Lexington and I’ve been told it takes roughly two days for rain runoff from the midlands area to reach the coast. I don’t know if that’s true or not but if it is, that means all of this rain we’ve been getting up here (still raining pretty steady as of this morning but is supposed to clear up today for the rest of the week) should be at the coast on Saturday. I believe too much freshwater runoff can have an adverse impact on inshore saltwater fishing so this definitely has me concerned.
As far as my approach, I already have my rods rigged. I throw artificials 99.999% of the time and that’s what I have rigged up. I’ll have the entire water column covered with my baits. I have two different topwater bait tied on, a couple different baits to cover the middle-to-upper parts of the water column and a couple different baits tied on to cover the lower parts of the water column to the bottom. I’ll start out with the topwater and, if I have to, work down through the water column until I find what the fish want.I typically start with “natural” colors regalrdess of water color. The baitfish are the same color regardless of water color and I’m always trying to “match the hatch.” Now, that doesn’t mean a different color won’t get more bites but I always start with natural colors and change if needed. Again, the fish will tell you want they want if you listen. Past experience is what allows me to be pre-rigged but I’m always prepared to change up as the fish and conditions dictate.
I know this isn’t any specific information but it’s pretty much my approach every time I go fishing, regardless if it’s in freshwater or saltwater. Good luck to you.
“You don’t always know where you stand till you know that you won’t run away.” ~Slipknot
y’all must’ve gotten more than coastal CHS, don’t think ours went over 2" and it was fairly gradual. the wind may very well be destroying water clarity as we type, though. I bet it looks pretty good by saturday/sunday. probably worse near large drainages like winyah/edisto and better in BB, murrell’s, etc. Tidal amplitude bottoms out tomorrow on the half moon and then starts jacking up big by turkey day.
Edisto at Givhans- level will continue to go up
Cooper River at ports- temp will continue to go down
bottom line: fish this weekend, shoot mud chickens next weekend
It’s been raining all week up here and most has been a steady to hard rain. It’s not raining right now and, other than some cloud cover, radar shows the rain has pretty much cleared out. Forecast shows steady clearing today and then clear the rest of the week and weekend.
“You don’t always know where you stand till you know that you won’t run away.” ~Slipknot
