Hows the shark bite?
Ill be trying my luck at iop or Sullivan’s soon.
The last several trips out had multiple runs and bite offs on my red rigs. It’s always a tough call for me whether to put on steel and shark fish, or run mono for reds. I will say the reds have been out pretty good lately. Good luck Mr. White.
If you throw out cut bait or shrimp 150yds past the breakers you’ll get the 30 inchers. Whole mullet or whole anything will bring in the 5 footers. Right place + right time + any big bait = SHARK
If you want to retrieve anything that bites use a SOLID steel leader no more than 12 inches long swiveled to mono sized for the length of fish. Since fishing with Runbabyrun I have made up 3 mono only rigs just for reds and smaller. but my all around rigs are 5 to 6 foot 125# mono swiveled to 8 to 12 inches(I don’t measure, its just whatever I feel like) of solid steel leader with a 150#ish snap swivel for changing out hook sizes.
Bites been on @ Sullivan’s
Thanks for the replies. I figured the water was warm enough and the sharks would be pretty hot but wanted to make sure. Honestly I expected to see some some reports from Requiem. I guess I need to load up my new squall and drown some bait! I knew I should have kept those rays I caught last weekend!!!
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you can definitely get sharks within casting range and although i havent been to charleston in a while sullivans island usually produced for me. if you can cast net some live horse mullet, those will work fine for 4-6 foot blacktips and you may even have a nice lemon come by. as someone else mentioned before you want a decent steel leader (use the bag of single strand and twist your own, not premade 30lb wal mart garbage that are a foot long) with a decent sized circle hook and youre in business. ive also landed several sharks on 300# mono crimped together and have never had anything bite through it, the biggest being a 6 foot 7 lemon. if you cant get ahold of horse mullet then whiting and pieces of stingray work great too. good luck!
Walkman’ your the man if you can throw a shark rig 150 yds
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Originally posted by greg sewellWalkman’ your the man if you can throw a shark rig 150 yds
Hell, if I could throw a bait out 90 yards with a normal surf rod, I’d be satisfied.
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Originally posted by greg sewellWalkman’ your the man if you can throw a shark rig 150 yds
I’m not actually casting 150yds, depending on what the tide is doing and how rough the water is I can usually get 50 yds past the breakers and cast out with my 11ft or 15ft rod another 80 yds so it will generally put me about 200 yds out from the beach. I throw my lighter shark/red rig…6ft 125# mono heavy swiveled to 12" haywire twisted 170# solid steel with a 200# snap swivel with 10/0 circle with the barb crimped down. 12 inch shark pup or whole finger mullet works good.
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Originally posted by Walkmanquote:12 inch shark pup or whole finger mullet works good.
Originally posted by greg sewellWalkman’ your the man if you can throw a shark rig 150 yds
How do you rig up the shark pup? I have always wanted to try one.
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Originally posted by Walkmanquote:12 inch shark pup or whole finger mullet works good.
Originally posted by greg sewellWalkman’ your the man if you can throw a shark rig 150 yds
How do you rig up the shark pup? I have always wanted to try one.
Catch one on a carolina rig with whatever kind of bait you are using And put it on your shark rig hooked through the lower jaw. Don’t cut it up as it will probably bleed a little anyway.wit it hooked in the jaw it will tug on the line so that with it bleeding from the mouth should bring a bigger one in.
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Originally posted by Walkman ...12 inch shark pup works good.
Not sure, for my “one per day limit”, I would kill a 12" Sharpnose. And of course you would make certain it was NOT a Finetooth, Blacknose, Blacktip, Sandbar or Spinner. We caught 4 Sharks yesterday, 15# mono, #2 j-hook and a half a piece of shrimp and wasn’t even tryin’. 
Don’t use sharks for bait,seriously, any mullet or cut bait would work. No sense in killing sharks, they already have enough trouble at that age with the shrimp trawlers.
It’s been semi slow when we’ve been out. Blacktips are around, lemons as well. We haven’t been really posting anything lately though as everyone has been busy and not much fishing going on. Side note - the whiting / ray bite is very slow in the inlets.
Sharks haven’t been hitting frozen ray at all - all have been caught on fresh bait in the last month or so.
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I caught (what I think and was told was Finetooth) 7 sharks last night on Sullivan’s. The biggest being just over 5ft. All on casted baits. Using fresh netted mullet on the way out. I couldn’t get away from them even on a whole mullet I did get to drop towards sunset. That mullet must have been 20 some inches too.
Dan, thanks for the update. Kinda strange about the whiting as I caught a lot more then I usually do off a dock up the ICW this weekend.
Drex, very nice. Do you mind telling me which side of the island you were on?
On the 2nd I got out there late after changing dinner plans and popped my bucktail off on my 5th cast as I was moving down the beach trying to look for a place to set up. I took that and the wind as a sign to call it quits and try the next day. Mid-day Sunday I went to SI just past the fort and it was a bit crowded (shocker) plus the wind was still pretty bad. It was close to mid tide so I decided to move to Pitt street and strugled with bait but caught two FM and a 1’ Mullet. Chunked him and the GF caught a dinner plate ray and hooked a mega ray, 4’ or bigger only caught a glimpse. We got nibbled to death after that by pinfish after that. Despite the fishing sucking it was absolutely gorgeous out there and the people watching kept us occupied. Despite the holiday it wasn’t really what I would call overcrowded.
Monday I went on a dock up the ICW towards Bullsbay. Had a great time with some friends consistently catching rays, whiting, and 1’-2’ sharks. I meant to keep a ray but it died on the stringer and was rancid by the end of the day so he went to the crabs.
I hope to have some better shark news on my next trip. Thanks for the input everyone.
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