Surf fished today at Grillage

Hey everyone, I’m new on here, and this is my 1st post.
I had a few hours to fish this morning and threw some cut mullet and shrimp (both frozen) from the beach behind Fort Moultrie from about 9am-12. High tide was around 12…Didn’t catch a thing. Can anyone direct me to a specific area back there? It was my 1st time going there, and the water was pretty calm, bait held well with a 3oz weight. If anyone can offer some advice, as far as tides and times I would appreciate it.
Thanks.

One more thing, I forgot to mention that I haven’t fished in over 15 years, and started back up again about a month ago and have yet to catch a fish…I’m also a Combat Veteran of the Iraq War, and wouldn’t mind tagging along on one of those military/veteran fishing trips if theres ever one.
Thanks again.

Joey D.

Move up the beach some, the area between station’s 17 to 18-1/2 usually has some cuts and washes which should hold fish. Try fishing closer in, well with in 20yrds.

Will definitely try it out, hopefully within the next few days…thanks.

Joey D.

Joey welcome to the sight, always nice to have new folks on board. Keep at it ,it takes time but is well worth your effort. You were asking for a few pointers. Study this forum. Review the history of the last few months and plenty of good folks posting tons of advice, read, read, read, and go fishing allot. Target whats in season, use appropriate tackle and bait, buy your stuff from local tackle shops like haddrels, they will also be informative and valuable unlike walmart and will lend advice. Get a book or two from haddrels on surf fishing. A good video for you to look up is Rich Trox identifying sand bars and cuts, he posts several videos that are really good and are a must see. Hope this helps some and good luck out there :smiley:

Doesn’t seem like there’s much left to say, except I always use 4 oz of lead.

Olde Man Charters

I like to fish the rocks were the current runs and I try different weight(1/16-1ounce) Carolina rigs to see which one washes through the strike zone the best, almost guaranteed a black drum with good chances of flounder, trouts and reds, either of the inlet on sulivans.

It might be a little late in the season, but fish at night on the incoming tide.