I have grown up with mostly freshwater fishing (so I have all the basic necessities in my takle box) but I am relativly new to salt water fishing. Can anyone provide some information regarding catching Spottails, rigs? lures? real bait/artificial? places to go? techiniques? time of day? tides? I have access to and would most likley be going out on a 17ft Bass Tracker boat, which I have taken into salt water before. Like I said, I’m new to saltwater fishing and I’d appreciate any info.
A bad day fishin’ is better than a good day at work!
You probably have most of what you need already if you are a bass fisherman. For inshore fishing I prefer bait casting reels with 17-25 lb. flourocarbon or braid and light spinning reels with 12 lb. test mono. We mostly fish with 1/4 and 3/8 oz. red head jigs tipped with Berkeley Gulp, money minnows, paddle tail or swimming soft plastics. You can also use a carolina rig with live bait or soft plastics. Reds like spinnerbaits too…have had the best luck on chartreuse with gold blade and black with silver blade. Also, gold spoons work in the weeds at high tide. For topwater (trout, reds, bluefish, ladyfish) you can try spooks on any other good topwater bait that you would use bass fishing. Some of the old timers I run into around Bushy Park swear by a carolina rig and worm combo because you can catch spottails and largemouth in the same places up there.
Read some of the older posts on this forum and you will find out what some of the guides and really great fishermen are using. Good luck.
PioneerLouie
Pioneer Venture 175, Johnson 90
Summerville, SC
The Charleston Angler, Haddrells Point Tackle, and numerous fishing clubs and groups found in the Sunday Sports section of the Post & Courier newspaper routinely list seminars and hands on demonstrations of fishing techniques here in coastal SC. Check it out one Sunday, and mark your calendar…most of these presentations are free to the public, but do require pre-registration. Good Luck!
jimmyaadams if you would like to post it in the open i would like to read it. i am always looking for tips on catching reds. Even if i feel like im doing every thing right and dont have much luck i like to see what others are doing.
Get the dnr spottail book. Hire one of the fine guides on here. You’ll cut your learnin curve in half. Ditto the seminars but time on water trumps classroom.
Thank y’all for the info. Greatly appreciated and I will let you know how it goes. Hopefully with pictures. And PeaPod, time on the water, without question, trumps classroom. Thanks.
A bad day fishin’ is better than a good day at work!