Sharks from boat advice

To the South Edisto
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I am looking for some advice for blacktips/spinners, or any other larger random sharks (other than sharpnose). I know several spots in Beaufort and Charleston and try to relate them to Edisto, so after looking at the map attached, I circled some spots to try (chumming and using mullet/menhaden etc…) For some reason I never have as much luck in Edisto. Does anybody have any advice or comments on the proposed spots? Do I look deeper (30-40’), or more of a shallow sandbar that drops to 25+’? Any help or comments would be appreciated. I prefer to stay around S. Edisto and not around to combahee.

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I have never caught anything of much size in the south edisto. The 10-15 # sharks are everywhere but all the bigger sharks for me have been out beyond the beach, both along the sandbag on the north side or in the channel out aroudn teh B can. There are some really big boys in teh St Helena sound which is only about a 20 min inshore boat ride from the marina. Even Mary Lee made a visit there last year.

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I guess I will head over to the Combahee light/bank area or the pelican bank and see if that works out, thanks for the help. I have caught good 4-6’ blackstips/spinners in the Morgan river and would be perfectly happy catching those.

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I’ve never tried it, but I would think you’d pick up something nice in the 50 ft hole just at the mouth of Big Bay. I’ve marked piles of something down in the bottom of that and there must be predators along with it. Can anyone confirm?

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The places you have on the map should be fine. To catch the bigger fish seem to prefer live bait (whiting, Mullet, menhaden.) April and May are the best times in my opinion.

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I’ve tried the mouth of big bay a couple times before on the bottom with only a couple 2-3 footers. I did hook into one by the red light at the mouth on a medium action setup and we had pull anchor to follow it for a couple hundred yards before it finally broke off

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I’ve caught monster ray in that hole! The best shark fishing I’ve found is off the beach front in about 10 ’ water using small rays for bait! Good luck.