After feeling guilty for so many under-slot reds to get a few keepers, son and I decided to ride.
Pretty bad when you have dolphins playing by your boat by Aulbrass plantation. I’ve seen plenty in the combahee but I believe this trip topped the scale. A reliable source said he saw two on the other side of I95. We need some rain and a lot of it.
Anyone else having more gut hooked fish using circle hooks? Several were released with hook intact.
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Check the circle hooks you are using… I bought some off-set circles and they did snag deep a few times. If its a true circle and not offset I dunno…
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You are SO right about needing water. It looks like we will end this year just as we did last year well behind normal rainfall. The entire inshore ecosystem depends on nutrients brought by way of the river systems.
Only one caught on a cork got it deep. It was the bait on the bottom that was getting them deep. Maybe just not noticing them until they had the bait swallowed? Not offset, but true circle.
Rained like crazy in N. Chas and Summerville this evening, but that may be a bit too close to shore for it to be any substantial effect.
Fred, ya’ll ever fish for rockfish up the river from the new bridge to Sugar Hill?
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Originally posted by Marsh-pickerFred, ya’ll ever fish for rockfish up the river from the new bridge to Sugar Hill?
You can’t catch fish on a dry line
No! Never! Oh well maybe. mouth of cuckolds (sp?) creek and a white buck tail, Cisco Kid, or deeper in that creek a Devil Horse. That whole high bank by Bluff Plantation were the new house is at is a good deep drop. Actually had better luck ocean side of steel bridge, large high bank before fields point or most any of the locks. Best luck has been with live Shinners. I’ve trolled but never had any major luck with that.
Don’t forget Ashepoo and West Bank. 
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Fred67, is it safe to leave truck and trailer at the steel bridge? I know it use to be bad. I put in at feilds point and go from there. Just a long ways down a dirt road!
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Fred, I fish in Edisto below the dividing line and some around brick yard landing in Ashepoo but haven’t had any luck the last couple of years and was thinking of trying Combee some this year. Thanks for the info.
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Originally posted by Marsh-pickerFred, I fish in Edisto below the dividing line and some around brick yard landing in Ashepoo but haven’t had any luck the last couple of years and was thinking of trying Combee some this year. Thanks for the info.
You can’t catch fish on a dry line
not sure the name of the landing but the big bridge going to Bennetts point that crosses the Ashepoo last year I was loading up and watched a gentleman bank fishing under the bridge bring in a very nice rockfish and had one more in his cooler. That was mid January.
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Originally posted by blackhawk961Fred67, is it safe to leave truck and trailer at the steel bridge? I know it use to be bad. I put in at feilds point and go from there. Just a long ways down a dirt road!
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I’ve never had an issue there, but a friend out of Beaufort had his whole tool box taken last year. I usually put in at public landing near Yemassee and work my way down. Right now would be a good time though lot’s of activity at the landing with all the duck hunters on the river. I wouldn’t trust sugar hill.
No doubt about fields point and a long dirt road, that used to be my favorite shrimping landing. Probably one of the better places for daytime shrimping lot’s of muddy water around there. If the state would allow it that would be a great camping spot.
My father and uncle use to catch them on the ashepoo years ago. Last time we caught one we were fishing for spottail and my father caught one 32lbs on a live shrimp. That was about 10 years ago.
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Yea Fred thats brickyard landing and we used to catch rockfish pretty good, fishing right around the burnt out bridge on bucktails in Jan&Feb. Used to put in at Fields Point and hunt Big,Boulder,Warren and Beet islands for deer before the Ace Basin came about and never had any trouble at the landing but that was a long time ago.
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