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    try a different bank
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    I'm just gonna bring my boat next time.i feel naked without it and I hate fishing off a bank.

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    Go to mt pleasant pier. Stop by haddrells and get some fiddler s
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    FYI, the proper terminology is "oyster rock". As in "Don't run up that oyster rock" Don't ask me why. It just is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    Spottails are schooled up this time of year and they move with the tides. They get as shallow as they can on the rising tide to stay away from dolphins and to chase what little bait there is and retreat to the sumps of bays and creeks when forced by the retreating tides. You're either in the middle of hundreds or nowhere near a fish...feast or famine. The bank you are fishing might not be in a regular path of a school. Once you find a school, they stay in pretty much the same area and on a pretty predictable schedule dictated by the tide. They'll be in the same place about an hour later each day.

    Spottails don't like to fight the current. They prefer to loll around in slack water.
    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    If you haven't run up on an oyster bank, you haven't been in the creeks much.

    If you do ground yourself on oysters or a pluff mud bank, it's extremely important to consider immediately if the tide is rising or falling. If it's falling, you better scramble and do what you can to get your boat off or you will be spending several hours waiting on the tide to turn and float you off. Since you are new to the creeks, go fishing an hour before low tide and fish the ebb and first half of the rising tide. It'll give you a good look at the bottom structure and be less likely to strand you for hours if you ground your boat. Beside, less water concentrates the fish in a smaller area.

    Keeping track of the tide is key to creek fishing.. not just when the tide will be high or low but how high or low. Full and new moons create extreme tides. Half to quarter moon tides are usually better fishing and present less current. On a full or new moon, the tide will be high somewhere around 8:00 am and pm. On half moon tides (neap tides), it will be low around 8:00 am and pm.
    Pretty dang good advice here.

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    Bart, it's my understanding that your screen name sake, Black Bart Miller, recently died.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fish View Post
    Bart, it's my understanding that your screen name sake, Black Bart Miller, recently died.
    I wasn't aware of that, but thanks. And my username came more from these guys anyway:

    http://www.blackbartlures.com/xcart/home.php

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    Yeah, so as it turns out, Black Bart Lures is owned by...never mind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GMAC View Post
    FYI, the proper terminology is "oyster rock". As in "Don't run up that oyster rock" Don't ask me why. It just is.
    That is the case for those west of Highway 17.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fish View Post
    Yeah, so as it turns out, Black Bart Lures is owned by...never mind.
    Please explain your point, Yoda?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    Spottails are still sorta schooled up (at least south of charleston).

    Don’t expect to catch one with a piece of cut bait at a boat ramp.


    You’d fare better trying for trout at daylight with a spook or Rapala.
    Shit, one of the biggest I've ever caught was at the Dolphin Cove fuel dock on a chicken rig with a piece of squid. 2nd biggest was right off the ramp at the ballpark with the same set up. Both in the 34" range. Caught plenty like that around Shell Banks. They aren't hard to catch unless you're trying too much fancy shit. Like a damn carp.
    Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.


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    Right, Hogg. You probably call them reds, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fish View Post
    Yeah, so as it turns out, Black Bart Lures is owned by...never mind.
    Right over Barbara’s knoggin.

    I saw that today as well....
    Rest in Power Capt B.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    In mid winter when they are schooled up in relatively same size fish, spending 88% of their time along shallow flats waiting on the tide to hang in water 13 inches deep?

    In the spring and early summer you can catch em on a piece of beef jerky off a bridge.....Dead winter? Not so much.


    Quote Originally Posted by Saltydog235 View Post
    Shit, one of the biggest I've ever caught was at the Dolphin Cove fuel dock on a chicken rig with a piece of squid. 2nd biggest was right off the ramp at the ballpark with the same set up. Both in the 34" range. Caught plenty like that around Shell Banks. They aren't hard to catch unless you're trying too much fancy shit. Like a damn carp.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GMAC View Post
    Right, Hogg. You probably call them reds, too.
    It will amaze you how many local grown charleston boys have turned to them “reds”..... mercy it sounds stupid.

    “Rat reds” almost entices me to quietly lean over and spit dark Kodiak juice into one of the holes in their crocs.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    Right over Barbara’s knoggin.

    I saw that today as well....
    Rest in Power Capt B.
    Ah, I see now. Thanks, Fish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    In mid winter when they are schooled up in relatively same size fish, spending 88% of their time along shallow flats waiting on the tide to hang in water 13 inches deep?

    In the spring and early summer you can catch em on a piece of beef jerky off a bridge.....Dead winter? Not so much.
    Gotcha, never had much trouble catching them any time I fish inside but, I don’t really put effort into it. Hell I took a bunch of kids to catch croaker and whiting, they piled up the spottails.
    Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.


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    God designed spottails to be pursued and caught in the grass on flood tides with weightless plastic shrimp or on a fly....

    Any other way is equally effective, but not quite as fulfilling.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    Black bart lures are named after the pirate, black bart. The pirate was called black Bart because he was really good at shooting hoops and drank grape flavored pirates rum. And his name was Bart.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    God designed spottails to be pursued and caught in the grass on flood tides with weightless plastic shrimp or on a fly....

    Any other way is equally effective, but not quite as fulfilling.
    I'll give you an "Amen" on that.

    Catching them any other way is like walking quail up without a dog or shooting rabbits that aren't in front of a beagle.

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