I’ve never met him but am always intrested in his stono posts because I have fished and failed on the stono mutiple times. ( mutiple being close to 30 ) I figured it was time again i’ve gotten decent in the folly river finding fish.
anyway started in after church 11:30 - ran down to marker 51 nice looking creek caught hadens and 6 mullet in 3 throws- perhaps even a crab or 2. then headed off to church flats, lots of mud anchored up in 6 feet of water threw everything out I could think of. nada moved arround a couple of time caught a stingray. ended up fishing this dock that at one point in my life I caught a flounder at. Sulking in my dissapoiment over a cold beer I look up to see my friendly DNR officer swingigng by for a chat. Thining to my self I wonder what the rules are on beer drinking and boating. But no he just stoped over to inform me that I was waisting my time and that I should be fishing the grass on a tidal creek. realy nice guy.
So I gave up and went to the sandbar to listen to someone elses rap music.
Key West Stealth
150 V-max
Fishing the high tide in the stono can be a little tough because there is so many creeks and mud flats for the fish to disperse on. I have my best results fishing within 3 hours of the low on either incoming or outgoing as those fish enter/exit the marsh areas. Docks adjacent to feeder creeks are great spots with the above mentioned tide. Fish them with shrimp or mud minnow under a float positioned just above the bottom or a mullet or mudminnow on the bottom slowly reeled in. No matter what, fish as close as possible to the dock next to the bank, on the mud flat alond its length, and where the drop off is (usually 3-4 piling in from the covered end)
Iain Pelto
Sea Hunt Triton 160
Native Manta Ray 14
I think the stono river between wappoo cut and wadmalaw sound is one of the more difficult rivers to fish. The fish are there just harder to locate.Besides the docks most of the structure stays underwater.There isn’t the vast live oyster beds and rakes like other rivers until you get down to the sound. The river is narrow and boat traffic doesn’t help. Deep water docks like Ross marine, those across from limehouse landing and the lower end of the sound hold trout.These are well known spots but there are others. The spottails are at some docks and the hidden underwater structure. Like hairball said 3 hrs either side of low tide is easier. Higher tides have there spots but for me they are fewer.
the stono has become one of my favorite places to fish, hard but as they said once you figure out what tides to fish etc its not too bad. One thing is a definate…while three hours before and after low work best for us too…you definately dont want to try to fish the narrower channel/waterway on a summer weekend and low tide unless it is early morning or late-late afternoon! Water quickly turns to coffee brown and you’ll get beat to death with the multitude of boaters out. what we do is fish the docks, creeks early morning then head out to the sound when traffic picks up…at least that way you have some clearer water and boats arent right on you when they pass. there are some good creeks and docks around and up past metal trades area…you just have to do a little explorin"…and then theres always the shark in that area too…lots of sharks…they too can be fun to catch on a slow day , esp. if you hav ekids with you…just be careful with them…they seem to have a good turning radius ;)
Good luck to you.
miss’n fish’n
212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16