Looks like we’ll finally get a good day to fish so I’m planning a trip for Wesnesday. If weather and water conditions go as planned, I can finally get back out in the water and start the new year off right. Anyone else doing the same?
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looking at it. Might go up to G-town hole and drag for wahoo, then load up on bottom fish on the way home
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NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
Yeah this is the first good day I’ve seen in about 2 months. Good luck to ya Paul, you don’t need it but hope all goes well.
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We’re gonna try it.
Me too…I’ll be on 68. “Reel Blues” if you want to communicate.
John
I’ll keep the radio on
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Well somehow or another, the forecast for edisto was way wrong, we got wet but not our lines. Hope y’all had better luck.
Water was terrible for us too, the buoy is still reading a 2 ft sea and it was at least 5 ft and getting bigger all day. But we loaded the cooler up anyways an headed in
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weather sucked @$$. i limited on large bsb, but that’s it. i didn’t make it to where I wanted to fish because i was basically forced to run further to the south in order to run in quartering seas. Where I was, seas were about 3 feet at around 4 seconds. It laid down a little bit later on, but not enough to question our decision of heading in early.
Edit: you guys can blame me for the weather. I really only have one rule on my boat, “no bananas” and my dad brought some on board and thought I was joking when I told him to throw them overboard on the way out. I blamed the him and the bananas for everything including the wind, rain, and no bites other than sea bass and a huge shark 
Yeah…you reckon the weatherman blew that forcast? Couldn’t buy a Sheephead…but caught 3 limits of tasty blackfish…back at the hill early…hope others did better.
John
Irobalo, were you at the 60? I thought I saw a robalo out there, but I couldn’t be sure what it was… I only saw three other boats out… followed one out the jetties, one at the 60, and a sportfisher a few miles south of the 60
We were out there while the Sportfisher was drift fishing. We stopped at the 60 on the way back in from bottom fishing a spot further out. We got surrounded by sharks and released a few but couldn’t seem to get anything else. Managed to pick up a few different species but the black bass were so thick we finally called it. The 60 held the biggest and most keepers that I’ve seen.
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Originally posted by millacdIrobalo, were you at the 60? I thought I saw a robalo out there, but I couldn’t be sure what it was… I only saw three other boats out… followed one out the jetties, one at the 60, and a sportfisher a few miles south of the 60
Actually I don’t have a Robalo. I had one years ago and never changed my screen name. I have a 23 Pathfinder. I was at the 4KI.
John
that must have been you I saw at the 60 ricky, I was anchored in the cuddy with the red top when you pulled up. we didn’t get anything but black sea bass which were quite tasty this morning for breakfast.
Yeah that was us, I saw your red top. The original plan was to head to the Y-73 reef but the buoy lied and we stuck closer in. Excellent fishing for the bass though, the hit jigs, sabiki rigs, and just plain hooks. And they were swimming up to the surface to feed, it was crazy. I even managed to catch my first bluefish, thought it was a mackeral at first until it finally stopped flopping and got a good look at it
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What time did y’all go out? We left the N. edisto around 9am and literally couldn’t get more than 3 miles out, the wind and waves were to much for us.
i left wappoo cut at 6:05 (pitch black until we were well past the charleston jetties because of the new moon). not gonna lie tjackson, it was nasty, and i couldn’t go to y73 (because of wind/wave direction) so i turned a few degrees south to run faster in a quartering sea to a different spot. i’d bet it was equally nasty in your direction. My father in law was on board and he’s crazier than I am, and traveled across the southeast to go fishing with me so we weren’t going to be denied. luckily we anchored up in a decent spot on the first try and slayed sea bass for an hour or so. we threw back plenty of legal fish in a successful attempt to keep mostly bigger ones in the 15+ inch range. We had tried inshore the previous day with a measly trout to show for our efforts.
We left Remleys at 6 heading out to the 73 but like millacd mentioned, the wave direction was brutal so we throttled back til we hit a good bottom spot a few miles from the 60. Heading back in from 60 wasn’t too bad but the swells really picked up outside the jettys. Not a bad day to fish, the rain sprinkle was overlooked because the rod tips were over board
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Originally posted by tjacksonWhat time did y’all go out? We left the N. edisto around 9am and literally couldn’t get more than 3 miles out, the wind and waves were to much for us.
We left out of North Edisto at 0700. Made it to the 4KI and fished there. Caught and released many Blackfish…but kept 3 limits of big ones.
John