I’m hoping to find a good night in June for an overnight trip to hopefully grab a swordfish. Would south/triple ledge area be the ideal area to go? And I’ve heard conflicting reports on chumming for them, some say yes others say too many sharks. Anyone have any experience?
Paul Alewine
Seahunter 37 trip 300 Vrods
“Hydro-Therapy”
Augusta,Ga/Beaufort, Sc
chum will draw sharks, stick to the freshest baits you can get, hydraglow lights, sea snchor and watch the SST’s
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Oyster Baron
NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
Sells, what sst do you look for?
28 WA Hydra Sport
Twin 225 4 stoke Yammies
“Fin Loco”
Go to swordfishingcentral.com, lots of info for rigs, moon phase, you name it. Deli area good, 226 hole, 380 popular spots. Pick a good night, have your safety gear in line, catch’em up.
Thanks Guys
Paul Alewine
Seahunter 37 trip 300 Vrods
“Hydro-Therapy”
Augusta,Ga/Beaufort, Sc
we are also thinking of June for an overnighter for swords. We’ll probably go for the Deli area. Let me know as your plans develop. might be good to have several boats out there.
John
Yeah man, I’ll just post something on here so hopefully it’ll work out and we can have some others out there
Paul Alewine
Seahunter 37 trip 300 Vrods
“Hydro-Therapy”
Augusta,Ga/Beaufort, Sc
I’m am in as we’ll please count me in let me know your plans.
id be interested in a overnigter
I’m looking at prolly the weekend of June 14th. Weather permitting of course
Paul Alewine
Seahunter 37 trip 300 Vrods
“Hydro-Therapy”
Augusta,Ga/Beaufort, Sc
Weather permitting, Miss Caroline will leave Skull Creek Marina around noon next Friday probably heading for the Deli area. We plan on drifting for swords through the night. All bait, tackle and boat are ready. Again, weather permitting. is anyone else still interested?
John
This weekend is looking good…too bad everyone seems to busy…
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Originally posted by Rose EllynGo to swordfishingcentral.com, lots of info for rigs, moon phase, you name it. Deli area good, 226 hole, 380 popular spots. Pick a good night, have your safety gear in line, catch’em up.
The Deli for Swords?
Trapit, I’ve been a couple of times and believe what sells says on chuming. Sharks galore. Amazing the stuff you’ll see come to the lights under the boat. Can not beat the night sky out there.
hey If anyone needs an extra hand would love to tag along can help out with some gas money I dont care for seafood so you can have the fish just would like to catch one.
What about north of the Gtown hole…? Just get in 1000’ feet of water and drift north…? Any spots…? Offshore of the Scarp…? May give it a try in late June.
1000’ of water is too shallow
I’m thinking about the charleston bump
Paul Alewine
Seahunter 37 trip 300 Vrods
“Hydro-Therapy”
Augusta,Ga/Beaufort, Sc
Why pick a hobby that is so harvest oriented if you “don’t care do seafood”??? That’s weird man. What are gonna do just pop the leader on that 50lb wahoo because you don’t like it or just give it all away. A fresh Healthy delicious protein source that most people never get, but your still eating fried chicken. Amazing.
The “Bump” is too far for me but would like to troll that area one day. We’re looking at setting up somewhere around 600 to 1000 ft. straight out from the Deli.
Weather permitting of course.
JB3 - if you fish out of the Charleston area and the Deli is not to far for you, the Bump should not be…
Check it out:
A great area to fish for swords is the area from the “North Hump” 10-15 miles east-southeastward which extends well out over the Charleston Bump. Then doing drifts from there over the deep section between the Bump and the shallower area SE of the 226 Hole.
North Hump is depicted (with coords) on the Hot Spot Charts laminate charts you can get (www.sstcharts.com). It is a tiny bit inshore (NW) of the “big thumb” of the Charleston Bump. The coords for North Hump are: 31?40’39.60"N 79?18’4.26"W
North Hump is 77 miles from the end of the Charleston Jetties - barely farther than the Georgetown Hole.
The “big thumb” of the Charleston Bump is located roughly at:
31?37’13.80"N 79?12’24.90"W
This is 83 miles off the end of the Charleston Jetties.
Deli is 80 miles off the Charleston jetties…
Gasper of the Wadmacallit and I have spent a fair amount of time in the area between the North Hump, past the “thumb” and out to the 1st “knuckle” of the Charleston Bump and I think he would tell you that is one of the best places for swords around. We are heading there again in a couple of weeks.
Here is a pro tip for finding Xiphias gladius off SC and GA: when the sun starts going down, look for birds (perhaps cranking up the gain on your radar to help find flocks) and pay close attention to them. If you see medium-sized birds with white faces, black caps, a white collar, brown body, a white band across their butt and a black-tipped tail - they are Black-capped Petrels. These birds are squid hounds that do a lot of feeding at night - if you see a ■■■■■ of them around sunset, stick with them! Their presence is a great indicator that squid will be rising from the deep at that location after dark.
To see photos of them, do a Google image search for: Black-capped Petrel.
They are often first spotted sitting on the water like a ■■■■■ of ducks - especi