This is my first post after reading here for awhile. I love the fact I see many guys giving advice on this site. So I normally fish Combahee for red fish, started fishing Beaufort and its a difficult transition but it will come with time. I tend to end up fishing around high tide (not by choice) when I can get out there. My question is on high tide how do you guys fish oyster rakes and structure successfully. If you can get up on the oyster rake do you go in it, or do you sit off of the oyster rake and cast up to it. I tend to try and fish low tide and look for the fish feeding and have been fishing that way but high tide is difficult for me and want to get better at it. I am using jig heads and plastics. I am not set on just catching red fish, I love catching trout and just enjoy being on the water. Hope I am not asking for to much information and the search function didn’t work well finding information just on high tides. Thanks.
U have to divide it up by water temp.
My high tide tactics are (summer 70+ water)- in the am, grass line top water for trout. Oysters work great too.
Also get way back up the feeder creeks and blind cast a spoon for reds or a spinner bait. Reds are anywhere so throw into
Thick cover.
Or float a feeder creek with the tide and work each bend or creek mouth.
Don’t sit on oyster rakes. Always cast to them
Great! Thanks for the information. I have some spinnerbaits I have been wanting to use.
Shane ; sounds like you’ve got a lot of it figured out , advice from epres is dead on right. Just a couple more hints , if you’re in unfamiliar areas try to spend as much time on lower tides as possible
so as to see physical structure better and carry a camera to shoot pics
of area to help remember layout , just move around cautiously as to not run aground especially if still on a falling tide…
Increase your lure assortment to include t-tricks , gulp shrimp , and some swimmin minnows…Live shrimp and mud minnows also work great under popping corks and c-rigs on bottom… Good luck,catch em up,and post pics cause there are some here that say ;; no pics then it didn’t happen:wink:
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Thanks Gail. Hoping to get out there this weekend and try and get into some fish. Thank y’all for the advice it is very apprecited. Hopefully have some pics soon to share. The spoon is a great idea to help cover more water. I’ve always had great luck with soft plastics and fish them real slow but don’t get to cover water like with a spoon or apinnerbait.