Kiawah Island Redfish Charter

Kiawah Island Fly Fishing

4/24 I had an afternoon corporate fishing charter, and we tried to hide from the wind and my group boated 12 sheepshead, 3 black drum, and 2 redfish.
Captain Colt ran our Maverick flats boat on a fly fishing charter and they didn't see a ton of fish in the grass, but did manage 2 nice reds on the fly.

Kiawah Island Inshore Fishing

4/21 I had an afternoon fishing trip with a family spending their spring break on Kiawah Island.  They were looking for some steady action, and we found a good mixed bag for the day.  They boated 6 nice redfish ( largest 10 pounds), 3 sheepshead, 2 black drum, and 11 whiting.
4/22 I fished a double out of Kiawah and both trips were a little slow but still managed to have a good time on the water. 1st trip boated 3 redfish, and 4 black drum, second trip caught about a dozen sheepshead and black drum.

Charleston Inshore Fishing Charters

4/17 Capt Fuss ran our bay boat on 2 trips in the Charleston harbor, was a bit windy but managed a couple of decent trips.  First trip was a 2.5 hour kids fishing trip with the Markie family, the boys had a big time and caught 6 redfish and 3 black drum.  That afternoon he took out the engineers from Yamaha Engines and they lost numerous big reds to the structure, and manage to boat 6 redfish and a huge sheepshead.

Charleston Inshore Fishing Charters

4/15 Capt Fuss ran our bay boat in the harbor this morning with the Meeks.  Picked them up at Shem Creek and were on the fish right away with a great bite throwing lures and catching tons of bluefish and spanish mackerel.  Then they ventured off into the creeks and caught about a dozen trout and 3 redfish.
I ran another corporate skeet shoot on the boat out of Kiawah with some more corporate guest from yesterday.

Kiawah Inshore Fishing Charter

4/14 I fished with a group staying on Kiawah this morning and bite was a little slower than it has been.  Started off looking for redfish, but couldn't get them to eat, but did manage 4 black drum and a flounder before we headed out into the main river and ended the trip with 4 bonnet head sharks.
That afternoon I ran a corporate skeet shoot from the boat, and everyone had a big time with some really good shooters on the boat.

Folly Beach Shark Fishing Charter

Sunday 4/13 I ran 2 short 2.5 hour creek / shark fishing charters out of Folly Beach, SC.  First trip took some small children and the caught 2 flounder and a sheepshead, and then we went and caught a n 18 pound bonnet head shark.
Second trip just wanted to shark fish, so we set up in the river and had first steady action of the year for sharks.  They caught several small fish that we turned into some good shark bait and boated 4 sharks: 2 bonnet head, 1 scalloped hammerhead, and a 65 pound bull shark.

Charleston Fly Fishing Charters

4/12 Capt Colt ran our new bay boat out of Charleston today and hit the oceanside for some near coastal action.  Fish few spots the drifted with some light tackle jigs and caught tons of black sea bass and a few blues and weakfish.  Then they went searching for something on topwater to throw the fly and some lures at.  Found some nice schools of Atlantic Bonita n the surface and could not get them close enough to take a fly, but the boated 6 nice ones on casting spoons before calling it a day.

Kiawah Island Fly Fishing

4/11 I ran a flood tide fly fishing trip out of Kiawah Island in the late afternoon early evening.  Water has warmed up nice a got to see plenty of happy tailing redfish in the flooded grass, my angler got a shot at about a dozen fish and landed 3 reds and a black drum on the fly ( largest red was 14 pounds). Fish ate copper rattle fly, and a small crab pattern.

Kiawah Island Reef Fishing Charter

April 10th , the wind finally let up and gave us a pretty day on Kiawah.  Ran a double and the first trip we made it out to the nearshore reef for some constant action.  Had a Mom take out 4 boys and 1 girl and we started with tons of black sea bass, they stopped counting at 200, also caught a few bluefish in the mix, highlight came at the end of the trip with a double header of nice redfish on light tackle with a 12 and 20 pounder.
2nd trip we stayed inshore in the Kiawah River and fished some structure and they caught 3 redfish, 4 black drum and 3 sheepshead.

Kiawah River Fishing

April 9th, another windy day, someone please turn off the big fan in the sky.  Had 2 trips today out of Kiawah Island.  1st trip was a little slow but we did manage 4 redfish from 2-10 pounds.  2nd trip was a little better with more of a mixed bag.  They caught 5 redfish largest 8 pounds, 3 sheepshead, 1 black drum and a few whiting.

Kiawah Island Inshore Fishing Charter

April 8th had a corporate fishing charter out of Kiawah Island today.  Winds were blowing 20-25 out of NE making for some difficult conditions, so we tucked into some small creeks to hide from the winds.  My group caught 8 sheepshead and 2 nice redfish ( 10 and 13 pounds).

Kiawah Island Inshore Fishing Charter

4/1 Had a good flood tide this morning and got to fish with some regulars ( Matt Farrow and his Dad from Boston).  First couple of stops not much action, but the 3rd stop was as good as it gets.  In 2 hours Matt and his father boated 37 redfish, and 2 large sea trout. 30 of the redfish were over 8 pounds with the largest weighing 14 pounds, all reds were tagged and released but the 2 trout went home with the guys for a fresh fish dinner.

Folly Beach Reef Fishing Charter

3/31 after a few nasty cold and windy days the weather finally broke enough for me to take a group who were staying on Folly Beach out fishing to the reef.  Caught about 50 black sea bass , a few sheepshead and whiting at the reef before heading inshore for the last 45 minutes to try for a redfish.  They redfish bite was good, in 30 minutes they hooked 6 and boated 3 reds between 8-12 pounds and lost a few more to some structure.