On the water by 7:00, already breezy. First stop was just out of the Ashley river. I saw a couple pelicans diving and widely scattered flips. One throw of the castnet and got lucky with about 2 - 3 dozen 4-5 inch menhaden, a bit larger than what I was hoping to use for bait, but live bait caught quickly! I got to my “super secret” spot to fish the top end and beginning of out going high tide.
I caught 3 real nice trout, 17 - 19" in the first hour, then 4 more between 20 - 25" in the next hour. so I guess the menhaden weren’t too big. I kept the first 3, and released the other 4. I had one other bite that I 'm almost sure was a shark, I never saw it and it never stopped. It almost had me spooled before the hook pulled free and line went slack.
By then the bite was off and I was ready to move to another spot to fish the second half of the tide and made a monumental bonehead mistake. I stopped to try to catch some mud minnows, got out of the boat on the sand by Ft. Johnson and 10-15 mins later I was unable to get the boat off the beach with 3 hours to go before low tide. So I spent the rest of the day rationing my meager supply of budlights and waiting on the tide to come back in.
I had hoped to be home by noon or 1p, finally got off the sand bar and back to the boat ramp at 5:30.
But It was still a nice day!!!