Opinion?. Added pics

Saltwater Inshore Discussion
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Yesterday I was staying on the 8th floor of the Tidelands hotel on Folly beach when I noticed two huge flocks of seagulls about a mile apart in a feeding frenzy over something about a hundred yards from the beach. I’m talking hundreds of them. I was wondering what kind of big schools of bait run up and down the beach this time of year. I was also wondering if they were over big schools of reds tearing up the bait. Do schools of reds cruise the beach close to shore this time of year? I have never tried to catch schooling reds in the winter off the beach. I have caught many reds when I saw gulls over reds in the creeks in the fall but have never seen anything of this magnitude. My daugther who works at the front desk and has a good view of the ocean said in the two years she had worked there she had never seen anything like this. I was wondering if anyone else had ever seen this in the winter or had any opinions.

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Menhaden run in big schools off Folly in the winter. Every once in a while a school will get washed up on the beach- dead fish everywhere! I do not think any big fish are eating them because I can’t catch a cold off the beach in the winter.

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I have seen it before this time of year. Baitfish don’t get close to the surface and let gulls eat them unless something is pushing them up there. Could be reds, bluefish, weakfish, etc.

Iain Pelto
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4

I bet some spanish came in and flushed the bait fish.

Stonoman

5

Great whites eating bait and the seagulls eating the scraps :wink:

miss’n fish’n

212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16

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Great white birding for seagulls using menhaden as bait. :-p

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