The one showing the Charleston Bump area is NH17-3 - “Hoyt Hills”. The first (rightmost) column link shows a PDF preview. The second column links to a page containing an ENORMOUS gzipped .tif file. Note: you will need to download a utility to uncompress the gzipped file if you are using a MS Windows system. I recommend 7-zip: http://www.7-zip.org/
After downloading and uncompressing the big TIFF file, I had it printed on a giant sheet of high-quality paper by a friend who is a photographer (and who has a huge table-width Epson printer for turning out his landscape prints). I still need to get it laminated though…
Presumably you could take or send the TIFF image to a printer and get a large chart done.
Nativeson, I’m out of Skull Creek in Hilton Head. I might make the “bump” at 8-10 kits but it would be a long trip. Swords are caught out past the Deli so that’s where we’ll start.
Thanks for the info & links.
John
Nativeson, I’m out of Skull Creek in Hilton Head. I might make the “bump” at 8-10 kits but it would be a long trip. Swords are caught out past the Deli so that’s where we’ll start.
Thanks for the info & links.
John
Out past the deli is a very large area!! good luck!
just did some searching on Black-capped Petrel, seems like the perfect bird to use for swords… thanks Native son.
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
If you can troll 10 miles east of the 226, you can catch swordfish, easily. Hell start 15 southeast of the 226 and depending of the tide, by the time you hit the ledge, you should be above the Terrance and around the Edisto MPA, make sure you pull your lines up before you get there.
Watch your drift and stay away from the ledge. If you start drifting easterly or over 3.5kts, pull lines and drive west, otherwise in 48 hours you will be off Nova Scotia.
The Charleston Bump starts east of Darien, GA and the Winyah Scrap would be the northern bound of the Charleston Gyro. So when you are talking about the “Charleston Bump,” put it into the geographical sense of where you are fishing relative to where your leave port. Because in another sense you just fishing the Blake Plateau.
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