Fished Station 29 from about an hour before high tide to an hour after low tide. Started with fish bites and mud minnows and had no luck. Picked up a pound of shrimp around lunch time and had little to moderate success. Zero bites on cut bait (mullet, blue, whiting). Should have packed it up with the sand bar formed a couple hundred yard out. The water around us stopped moving and the bite shut off completely.
Long drive. Fishing pretty much sucked. My daughter had a good day just hanging out at the beach so it was worth the trip. I will be back but will probably choose a different spot next time.
It use to produce good fishing at the tip of where the bar ran out toward breach, but that was when the bar ran all the way to Sullivan’s. The water after about mid tide would flow out toward breach and the fish would hold there at the hole by the end of the bar, I think station 30 but it’s been a few years since I fished there. I would throw a heavy Carolina rig as far out as I could with a mullet strip and jig the rod and reel it back. It would produce all of the typical inshore game fish. We’ve had a lot of rip currents and huge tides lately. I’ve always done better there on small tides. The next two months is prime time and as soon as the water cools out the 80s the fishing picks up. Another good option is pack light and stay mobile and walk from rock set to rock set fishing the edges and tips. Just watch out because both inlets on Sullivan’s have no wading or swimming areas.
I have not had much success either at breach Sullivan’s or folly Beach being folly is where I’m fishing the most. I have been out almost 3-4 times a week and sometimes around 10hours a trip. I catch a few whiting each time. I have caught literally 3 bluefish. 5stingrays. 2 3-4ft sharks. And a couple pompano. And a bunch of puppy drum only 2 keepers so far around 16inches. Most days Im catching a few whiting and that’s it. Today on folly I caught a whiting a 3ft shark around 630am. Then continued fishing from 630am-2pm and did not have one bite. I am also fishing with 4 rods at a time. If I have my friend with me were using 6rods.
I’m guessing no one else is catching anything because the forums have been so dead lately. I haven’t been posting cause there is nothing on my lines whatsoever.
Hoping the fishing picks up soon I know it’s called fishing not catching but (**() give me a break allready.
I’m also using various techniques from Carolina rigs to double drops to popping corks to jigging to throwing lures. Fresh shrimp and mullet live or fresh cut. Blue crab whenever i can get them and some fishbites.
Hit Sullivans last year twice smack dab in the middle of fall in the fort area. With two trips just a couple of whiting, blues and one trout. I then talked to several groups of guys slinging for reds and not one person had landed any out of several groups. Took James Web and Mr. Parker out 2 weekends ago, it was embarrassingly slow. It needs to cool down. I had a feeling we were getting a late start this year, it just hasn’t been that cool. Stevo you get um soon enough, it can only stay hot but so long. Good luck and thanks for the report.
The surf fishing at folly has been steady for me all year. Small red and black drums with some slot fish mixed in, bigger than usual pompano, fewer but bigger then usual blues around a pound instead of the usual half pounders, trout and the usual spot, croaker and whiting. I haven’t really shark fished off folly or went for big reds but I’ve seen a few good size sharks in the surf and had a couple fish get sharked. I’ve heard of a good bit of upper 20s and lower 30 inch class reds get caught by people who fish the same spots I do but I haven’t caught 1 over 20. Ive fished the pier instead of the surf some this year and didn’t really report because I didn’t have great action but the surf end of the pier has been steady for fishing. I’ve seen a lot of little and slot drum come over the rail and some pretty good size Pomp’s also. I fished the tournament this past Saturday and there was some slot reds and black drum caught and I caught a 16 inch trout and some small black drum and a 10 inch pompano and several smedium whiting. Someone caught like a 3# pomp and there where several like 10 inch Pomp’s caught. Part of the fun of the tournament is seeing what people are catching I didn’t do any fishing in August or most of September so no report. Stevo a skunking is a good report, you can save someone a drive or a tough day fishing, especially if the report is of several skunkings in the same area. If I was planning to go somewhere and I heard not good reports I’d probably try another spot. I have a feeling this weekend fires up the big reds.