Charleston, SC fishing report: 09-28-11

Fall is definately falling on the lowcountry. Water temps inshore have dropped down into the mid to reduced 70’s with the earlier cold front that moved by way of, and the fish defiantely know it. Trout have turned on very good lately, with plenty of reviews of 20-40 in excursion currently being typical. Though numerous of the trout are nonetheless juveniles, we are hearing a lot more and more reports of some fish in the sixteen-twenty&quot variety. DOA shrimp below a popping float and ZMAN’s new four&quot PaddlerZ have been without a doubt the comfortable baits of selection for the early fall trout. Reds continue to group up in far better and better figures lately, with some fantastic reports coming from up the Wando and Stono facet. Are living shrimp, mullet, Gulp!, and/or ZMAN jerkshads have all been solid bets for tangling into some fall reds. The huge &quotbreeder&quot reds are also staging in very good numbers around the previous Grillage location and the Jetties. Sheepshead studies are respectable as effectively all around neighborhood bridges and rock piles using fiddlers OR are living shrimp. Shrimp baiting time has been showing some great indicators following previous decades brutally cold winter season, as we are listening to a lot of complete coolers coming from the harbor around the JI shoreline and crab bank.

We want to extend a big congratulations to prolonged time HPT west ashley buyer Wes Covington for his document breaking Hogfish very last week he caught on a modern trip that tipped the scales at a whopping 21.95#’s. In addition to the file hogfish, we are listening to some really very good reports of grouper in drinking water depths from a hundred-150ft of water employing live pinfish and cigar minnows, as nicely as butterfly jigs. Great reviews of triggers and vermillions have also been noted from 80-130ft of water. The couple of boats that have created the trip to the stream just lately to troll have documented again solid numbers of sailfish in 250-450ft of h2o and nevertheless some wahoo keeping in 140-200ft.