My Dad and I go fishing on the Wando and I outfished him with a grand slam! I started the day off with a nice 27 inch redfish at the upper Wando. We then head down stream and get into a hot trout and flounder bite keeping a 16 inch flounder and 16 inch trout. We end up at Juba Flats jumping off several trout and landing a 16" redfish. We take all three species home to Mom to fillet and cook for us. She fried them like they do in Mexico and they were great! The hot bait of the day was the Zman 4" Jerk Shad https://amzn.to/2PHeMxc rigged on an Eye Strike 3/16 oz Jighead https://amzn.to/33ghb5N.
That’s a slam, a grand slam needs 4. But still good fishing, I always out fish my dad, I try to put him on them but he’s to good a missining/losing fish and tangling lines.
Thee grand slam has a sheep head or a black drum. The big five is getting all five, a drum slam is a black a red and a trout. Margarita slam is trout, red, flounder, striper, large mouth. Pan fish slam is a pinfish, spot, croaker, whiting, pigfish, a ■■■■ fish slam is a toad fish, a sting ray and a baby shark or a pelican, seagal and seaturtle. The margarita slam is the only one I haven’t got. The salt water striper isn’t around most the areas I fish. I’ll have to make a drive to get a margarita slam it’s a good time of year to do it.
I’ve heard the margarita slam called a dirty water slam or sweet water slam also. I threw the net the other day and there was a ton of what look to be baby large mouth bass mixed in with the bait I caught them not even a mile off the Stono river. They were silver with a black strip like a large mouth they might of been a hybrid of a salt and fresh fish. I will see what they look like as they get bigger when I catch them again in a few months.
Myrtleman. You want me to fess up to being a transplanted Yankee. And face the ridicule from folks on this site.Ok I am from upstate New York. Grew up on a farm outside of Attica. My dad was a guard there we moved to SC when I was 14. Never did any saltwater fishing as a kid up there. Mostly bass bluegill and perch. From silver lake. Not really ever heard of anybody catching stripers in the surf around here. About all the stripers I have caught. Have been bye catch targeting trout and redfish. There’s a couple of Old-Timers up here. That tell me they do pretty good around the swing bridge. And down the waterway near Sandy island. I’ve read about the striper fishing up there around block island. Pretty incredible fishery.