I want to catch some Spanish mackerel, does anyone know where is the best place to catch them and what lures or bait to use and are they located in the surf, inlets or estuaries.
My personal favorite lure to use in the surf is the Got-Cha 1600/1700 series. Gold with red head and silver with yellow head. Good to catch mackerel, blues and trout.
Do you know where is the best choice to fish for them between the rivers, inlets and surf and if so what county.
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Originally posted by KingFisha14Do you know where is the best choice to fish for them between the rivers, inlets and surf and if so what county.
Clean water is the ticket. Fishing from shore I suspect you will have to run up to the Myrtle beach piers to have any luck. The few times I have been to Folly beach pier the mud line always seemed to extend 20-30 yards beyond plugging distance.
To fish local to Fripp, you are going to have to hook up with someone with a boat and go hunt the birds.
Breach inlet bridge off of IOP. 2-3 hrs before high tide Spanish are frequent running the tide line following bait as it runs inshore. Most are of decent size so shy from artificial unless you can work some larger drones with trolling sinkers. Get your hands on some live bait to float out there and hook ups are easy as it comes.
As for folly, Spanish are there just hard with the current weather (our mid summer SW winds). Unless you get chance fish early morning high tide or south/southeast winds you will not see clean enough water to catch them frequently.
Folly is kind of dead for Spanish this year. If fished there a couple of times this summer. I usually lose my bait to the Sharks. There are so many of them around.