I live in Greenville, SC, and don’t get down to the salt water on a very regular basis. In fact, this was the first chance I had gottne to fish this year. So, I felt very out of touch with what is going on there.
Fished Friday morning and Saturday morning. Wind was blowing pretty good in most places and lots of dirty water was in the creeks.
On Friday, being out of touch with what’s happeneing, I couldn’t find any bait within a reasonable period of time, so I set off with my artificials. It seems like I spent most of my time driving around trying to find a spot that was sheltered from the wind and that didn’t have muddy water. Well, that just didn’t really happen. Finally bagged it on Friday after a frustrating morning and no fish.
Saturday was more of the same. I had some mud minnows, but that didn’t do any good. To add insult to injury, at low tide, I ended up running aground on some mud and got stuck (first time I’d ever done that). So, 45 minutes later, I was able to get off the mud and head back. On the way back, around the corner from Peter’s Point, I hit that sandbar that stretches across the creek and got stuck AGAIN. Luckily, only for a few minutes. At this point, fearing that I was going to either kill myself from running aground or tear up the lower unit of my motor, I was just ready to give up and go home. I finally made it back to Live Oak Landing in one piece, and just wrote the entire weekend off the books, feeling like quite the non-fisherman. Not even a bite.
On the bright side, the weather was beautiful, and we had a great time on the beach.
Just trying to learn every bit I can about saltwater fishing…