I only had time to fish for a couple of hours on Sunday morning, right at high tide. I loaded up with bait on Saturday afternoon and then headed out around 6:30 am on Sunday. Beautiful morning with almost no wind, no bugs, and partly cloudy skies. Water temps were around 78 in the creeks. I fished a couple of flats that I don’t fish very frequently between the 526 bridge and the 41 bridge on the Wando. First flat on the last of the incoming I got two nice reds, 29" and 27" on cut mullet. One on a carolina rig and one on a float rig. This flat was right on the Wando.
Water was too high, about a 5.5’ tide, to actually see tails but the fish were pretty active pushing around. After an hour or so I moved to another flat at the end of a long, long creek. I had never been all the way up this creek on a high tide so I explored the flats a little and found some more reds pushing around, even saw one tail on a flat someone had marked with a cane pole. Caught two more nice reds on this flat on cut mullet. Again one on a float and one on a carolina rig.
When the water started to move out I moved out to a spot on the creek that is a classic outgoing tide spot. I’ve always had good luck at this spot. Big corner on the creek with several feeder creeks, an oyster rake, and a deep hole. Managed a couple more reds, several nice trout on the trout trick, and a small flounder. Actually caught one of the trout after I had put down the rod to reel in the flounder. There was enough current to bounce the trout trick along the bottom and a trout picked it up. Had a double header with the flounder. Luckily neither fish was huge so I got them both in the boat. All in all a nice couple of hours on the Wando.
