Finding fish South Carolina

[Roe Rodriguez]

I am new to South Carolina, originally from  Southern California, I am on Charleston Air Force Base and Iv been looking for largemouth bass. I am use to fishing in small ponds or large lakes. I also have fished salt water harbors for barracuda and halibut. So far I’ve rented a boat and fished Short Stay, but I’m looking for ponds of plenty bass, something more familiar of what I’m use to. I have a 14 ft kayak with a built in live bait well hooked up with a pump to circulate water, Iv been trying to find a good place to put it in a river to find some bass. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Also I would like to take my wife out to fish from shore somewhere too.

[Koz]

The one thing you're going to find a lot of in the SC Lowcountry is stormwater ponds. Hundreds of them. Thousands of them. You will find them in residential communities and commercial areas. If they are more than 10 years old there's a good chance they hold bass. Many of the residential communities also stock fish on an annual basis.

 

You'd be surprised how big some of the bass are in ponds less than one acre. Start with Google Earth or Google Maps and look for these small gems. I've looked at your area on Google Earth and there are tons of them.

 

Looking west of your location there are a ton of larger ponds further west of Middleton Place Woodlands. It looks like there are numerous dirt access roads and lots of fishable shoreline.

 

Goose Creek Reservoir is also near your location and you can kayak there. The Ashley, Stono, Cooper, and Wando rivers are also nearby, but I don't know if the bass fishing is good there or not. Because Charleston is a major seaport, you also have to worry about commercial ships on those larger rivers.

 

Fish the small ponds. You could probably fish three a day every day of the summer and not come close to hitting all of them.

 

One word of caution - you're in alligator country now. You need to be aware of your surroundings as you approach the shoreline. Always keep your eyes on the water. Gators are ambush predators. Keep a knife at your side in case you need to cut your line if a gator grabs the fish that you're reeling in. Gators are faster than you think, both in the water and on land.

 

 

[Roe Rodriguez]

Thank you sir I appreciate the info 

[Koz]

1 hour ago, Roe Rodriguez said:

Thank you sir I appreciate the info 

 

You're welcome. And thank you for your service!

[Roe Rodriguez]

I heard there’s a lot of fishing over on the Navy weapons station? Has anyone been over in that area? What areas are we allowed to fish?

[blackmax135]

Just fish the brackish waters in all these rivers.  You will catch bass and some Redfish which is alot of fun.  You got the Cooper river right there; put in at cypress gardens boat landing and go North, fishing in the rice fields never lets me down.  Also the Edisto river in Jacksonboro a good choice and if you wanna go a little farther the combahee river is a great place to take a kayak.  But watch out for gators.

 

Good luck

[Chris at Tech]

R. E. D. F. I. S. H.  Try it once and thank me later.

 

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[BigRed1977]

Goose Creek Res hold plenty of bass and it's great from a kayak. The hatchery in Lake Moultrie is a good spot. Bushy Park is a good place to fish from the kayak.