Last trip I headed out it was about a month ago. I have had allot going on and was able to get out this weekend and put together 2 day’s back to back. First I will start with my last trip which was ok with me landing a few whiting, blues, ray’s and a decent red that had good shoulders on it that measured 26 inches making it the 24th red landed for me this season. This weekend I went down in a blaze of glory:face_with_head_bandage:
I fished Friday and Saturday with very little to show for it. A couple of whiting, one blue, and two ray’s and a small shark with 14 hours total fishing. The water and wind were rough and keeping fresh shrimp on the hook was very difficult. After hours of no success I tried a page out of Stevo’s book and put some fish bites into the spread as well. Immediately upon switching I was able to catch a few small bait fish for the shark rod. The fish bites were highly effective staying on the hook and it proved to be helpful with the wind and currents where the shrimp was having a hard time staying on the hook. I will keep some in my tackle box for now on when conditions are rough. It worked very good. Thanks for the heads up Stevo, alway’s nice to learn something new:smiley: After slinging out the shark rod of coarse my bait rod slammed over and and something peeled off several hundred yards of line on a double drop rig like a freight train. I had over 300 yds on the reel and about lost it due to not being able to put allot of pressure on the shark with the double drop rig and 1/o hook. The shark hit a tiny piece of shrimp. An hour or two later the same thing happened again but this time the shark hit a fish bite on a double drop rig on another bait rod. Lost them both. One line pop and one pulled hook. Thats how it goes sometimes. Hopefully they will hit the shark rig next time. We headed back and the tide rolled in on us and we were stranded. We got cut off and have to sit and wait it out. Grace and I took to the trees and had a bourbon and watched the sun set. Beautiful weekend. Tough fishing. Hopefully
Enjoyed your report and pics , thanks.
Gracys got the right idea cooling it and guard the whisky !!!
George McDonald
US Navy Seabees,Retired,
MAD, Charleston Chapter
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When you see “Old Glory” waving in the breeze, know that it is the dying breaths of our fallen hero’s that makes it wave.
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Been waiting all weekend for a decent read. Your dog goes fishing more than I do! Me, you brought the whole tank of bourbon…
I soaked a rod at Folly on Saturday. About half way to the wash out at the top of the incoming tide along side a groin. One little whiting and nothing else. I had a hard time keeping bait on to but the surf was fun. I saw a bunch of fulls and teens working a school about 100m out.
2002 17’SeaHunt
nice catches, Pete. I fished Garden City SC on Saturday and caught a large cow nose ray and my buddy caught 3 whiting. Hopefully this rain will go away and the fish will bite this week.
Thank you everyone, I appreciate it. George I have learned my lesson trying to fight the tide:smiley: On the last MAD trip my group got cut off when the water came in. Seeing how I had a couple of soldiers with me that were built like a couple of Abrams Tanks i Figured we would be ok and tried to float and drag the cart through a couple hundred yards of water that was anywhere from 2-4ft deep along the high tide line. We were pinned between crashing waves and a long span of jagged trees like the ones you see in some of the pics. We did well untill fatigue set in about half the way through. Then all hell broke loose. We got slammed by wave after wave and it swamped my cart with my reels taking a dunking. We ended up busting through the trees with rods, cart and all and chalked it up as a hell of an adventure and laughed it off. Unfortunately my reels took a nasty dunking. They got trashed. Karma looked after me and the good folks from Quantum said they didn’t have the parts in stock to fix the reels. They not only replaced the broken ones but replaced all 5 that I had sent to them. They gave me 5 brand new reels and I ended up with the memories of battling the surf with my soldiers but also received over 1000 dollars worth of completely brand new reels. Who would of thought surf fishing can be dangerous. Now I just wait the tide out. We learn as we get older. Sometimes using our head plopping in the bush and having a cold beverage is the best thing to do:smiley:
That’s a heck of a story! If you don’t mind me asking, which beach did that happen?
2002 17’SeaHunt
That happened out on Morris Island during 2017 MAD event;;really looking forward to this years event ; they just keep getting better thanks to the ones like pete , david , jarvis , james and many others that make it happen…
George McDonald
US Navy Seabees,Retired,
MAD, Charleston Chapter
[http://www.militaryappreciationday.org
When you see “Old Glory” waving in the breeze, know that it is the dying breaths of our fallen hero’s that makes it wave.
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Well that was a nasty day out too runbaby! It kept my 28’ inshore.
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Im happy the sabiki and fish bites helped you out. Great read. When i was out saturday the surf was very rough.
Glad you got out there rbr. You just can’t hide that kind of money. Knob Creek. Dam
Us surf guys fish on the cheap, more “dollars” for the drink 
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I’m really looking forward to this years event.
Me too Lunker:smiley:
not the day you wanted, but it was still a good day pete.
Hoping to get back out soon… its been a weird one