Man those are some very neat pics
Thanks for sharing those
Cool shots from the past 2 days. Trying to make an effort to catch some of the cool sights. On camera thanks to this thread.
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Last edited by SouthernWake; 09-03-2023 at 03:11 PM.
Awesome stuff. I'm likely making a trip this month. I definitely have missed it.
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What skiff do you have?
While I certainly dont take for granted the fishing locations I have lived the last decade (South Florida, charlotte harbor, Louisiana) , however I do terribly miss flood tides and shallow water winter redfish schools. I still believe SC red fishing is my favorite, I am sure there is some home bias.
"The best things in life make you sweaty"
- Edgar Allen Poe
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us...”
― Henry David Thoreau
I've missed the shallow water game and got back in it last weekend. Stuck a few reds OTF and got turned down by way tOo many sheeps.... it's been a minute or two!
Just committed to buying a small skiff and I'm jacked but Jane is really pumped!
She's got some prep to do before next June when I throw her to the wolves in e
Exuma.
Poling your kid around is the tits....
Last edited by Calibogue; 09-04-2023 at 07:28 AM.
\"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE
Awesome pics by the way
\"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE
Not a huge amount of comparisons other than in shallow flats here and the spartina flats in Sc the primary forage are crabs so I have success with crab flies.
Otherwise much different . Darker , less tidal flow, less daily tides, etc. with this they are typically in a predictable pattern for longer in LA. I have spring and early summer dialed in as a result. The diet seems to be more reliant on white bait here, or at least the bite is more reliable on presence of white bait. The late summer and fall has the big boys but my area they are harder to catch than eastern LA. The winter is tough here, partly because my favorite places to fish in the ponds of the wild life refuges are closed to fishing during duck season.
I almost exclusively fish soft plastics and gold spoons when using spin gear.
The fish are less pressured here, likely because 80% of fish caught by the bay boat crowd is thrown in the cooler so they never get a chance to get pressured. There is also a lot less non fishing boat traffic to pressure the fish.
Last edited by Dawhoo; 09-03-2023 at 07:59 PM.
"The best things in life make you sweaty"
- Edgar Allen Poe
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us...”
― Henry David Thoreau
Interesting note on the white bait note. Our fish here certainly love to eat menhaden when they come in but I don’t see them orient to them specifically inshore, schools off the beach is different.
Pressure on our fish here is super heavy both shallow water and deeper inshore zones. I want to believe it is by people who don’t know what they are doing is detrimental.
I sold my skiff when she was born and moved into a bigger boat so I'm pretty excited about getting back into the shallow water game with her. She has a lot of prep to do before next June and man I can't wait!
Ha, put them on some of these tailing sheeps it doesn't get any more challenging or frustrating.
Last edited by Calibogue; 09-04-2023 at 08:58 AM.
\"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE
Good stuff
Thanks for sharing
Headed to E. NC tomorrow for 6 days
thinking about less dolphin fishing now and more marsh for later this week
For a change of pace:
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