Recently moved to SC low country near MCAS Beaufort, looking for advice and fishing friends

[Seafury]

22 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Don’t leave valuables in there and you have nothing to worry about 

Always good advice but rather impossible when boating.

There is much gear to bring and some stuff always stays in the truck.

 

My outing on Saturday went fine though, the place got full right after I arrived very late around 1pm.

Lots of very nice helpful friendly folks!

I love the people down here!

This was my first visit on low tide, I saw a LOT of stumps I ran over at 20-30mph on my previous visits with no issues, won't be doing that again lol.

Still have not hooked a single fish but I made progress this trip.

I got one bite, though it may have been a gator idk because the bite was weird and violent and destroyed my senko worm which is unusual.

 

I'm going to go back a few more times as this is the closest freshwater to me in Beaufort, but if I don't catch something soon I'm going to declare this water dead and move on to the Edisto river or something.

I'm shocked tbh I see almost no one fishing here, yet there are no fish, I expected to catch lots of fish np, but so far this is worse than Northern VA fishing.

Makes no sense to me.

I need to make friends with a local bass fisherman somehow as EVERYONE I have talked to only fishes for saltwater fish, even boaters on this river, and none of them know anything about largemouth bass they claim.

 

It's really frustrating that I am catching more fish bank fishing in tiny filthy shopping center ponds in town then on this beautiful river with a boat and expensive fish finder.

 

The hunt continues!

[wrat]

On 10/9/2023 at 8:59 PM, Seafury said:

 

 

It's really frustrating that I am catching more fish bank fishing in tiny filthy shopping center ponds in town then on this beautiful river with a boat and expensive fish finder.

 

The hunt continues!

its easy to catch fish in a bowl

[JN94]

On 10/9/2023 at 7:59 PM, Seafury said:

Always good advice but rather impossible when boating.

There is much gear to bring and some stuff always stays in the truck.

 

My outing on Saturday went fine though, the place got full right after I arrived very late around 1pm.

Lots of very nice helpful friendly folks!

I love the people down here!

This was my first visit on low tide, I saw a LOT of stumps I ran over at 20-30mph on my previous visits with no issues, won't be doing that again lol.

Still have not hooked a single fish but I made progress this trip.

I got one bite, though it may have been a gator idk because the bite was weird and violent and destroyed my senko worm which is unusual.

 

I'm going to go back a few more times as this is the closest freshwater to me in Beaufort, but if I don't catch something soon I'm going to declare this water dead and move on to the Edisto river or something.

I'm shocked tbh I see almost no one fishing here, yet there are no fish, I expected to catch lots of fish np, but so far this is worse than Northern VA fishing.

Makes no sense to me.

I need to make friends with a local bass fisherman somehow as EVERYONE I have talked to only fishes for saltwater fish, even boaters on this river, and none of them know anything about largemouth bass they claim.

 

It's really frustrating that I am catching more fish bank fishing in tiny filthy shopping center ponds in town then on this beautiful river with a boat and expensive fish finder.

 

The hunt continues!

You should give salt fishing a try. My parents live a little north of you in Pawleys Island and I spend as much time as possible chasing reds up there. Some of the best redfishing in the US is on the Carolina coast. You can use all your bass gear to go after reds, trout, flounder. It's not significantly different than bass fishing. You're still targeting structure, creek mouths etc. A lot of the same stuff applies

[Seafury]

On 10/29/2023 at 4:33 PM, wrat said:

its easy to catch fish in a bowl

Sure enough!

On 11/18/2023 at 8:53 PM, JNorman said:

You should give salt fishing a try. My parents live a little north of you in Pawleys Island and I spend as much time as possible chasing reds up there. Some of the best redfishing in the US is on the Carolina coast. You can use all your bass gear to go after reds, trout, flounder. It's not significantly different than bass fishing. You're still targeting structure, creek mouths etc. A lot of the same stuff applies

Thanks for the advice (which I have received hundreds of times) but I don't want my freshwater gear getting salty, and I don't eat fish, and my boat is old and has never been in salt water, nor is it deigned to handle that big water, even on lakes it to rough out in the open, its designed more for smooth water.

 

Just not my thing and never will be, unless I get rich somehow and buy an offshore boat, then things will be different lol.

 

 

As an update I finally figured out how to catch Largemouth using my FF, and they only really bite on incoming (high) tide, and only on rubber worms dipped in glow garlic scent.

Now it's turning colder here, and the bite is much more difficult.

After 2 successful trips in a row in early Nov to the same spot on the same river, my last trip was skunked again.

 

Sorry for the absence but I started using a VPN and that got me banned for some dumb reason, and getting in touch with the admin of this site like it tells you to do, is impossible.

 

Not sure how I am able to log in again today, but here I am!

[Koz]

On 10/9/2023 at 8:59 PM, Seafury said:

I got one bite, though it may have been a gator idk because the bite was weird and violent and destroyed my senko worm which is unusual.

 

Probably a bowfin. Gators don't let go.