Kiawah Island Fishing

March 19-24th Myself and Capt Zach fished everyday this week except Sunday.  We have both had some really good days and a couple of slow days, mostly catching redfish and sheepshead, with a few: black drum, trout and flounder.  Highlights of the week Capt Zach had a trip where they caught over 35 redfish, and I had a day with new clients and they caught 11 redfish and 28 sheepshead.  The bite has been hit or miss, but when it is on it has been on fire.  Most of our trips this week have been fishing waters surrounding Kiawah Island and Folly Beach with a couple of charters going out of Charleston, SC.  We have been doing well on live shrimp and crabs and also throwing Zman sort plastics and a few reds on the fly.  Hopefully the wind will lay down soon and temps will start to warm up.  tight lines, Affinity Charters

Kiawah Island Fishing

Mid March, we have fished everyday this week and typical Spring we are battling the wind.  Temps have been a little cooler than normal, but the redfish have been happy.  Myself and Capt Zach have been doing well this week mostly with red drum.  The slowest trip of the week was a just after the front and we boated 4 redfish and a flounder , but the average trip for the week has been 20 plus reds with one day we caught around 40.  The water temp has been between 55-59 all week and the redfish have been eating : crab, shrimp and minnows and we have been doing well on Zman and gulp baits as well.  Early in the week we mostly have been fishing around Charleston waters and 2nd half mainly around Kiawah Island and Folly Beach.
Tight lines, Affinity Charters

Kiawah Island Fishing Charter

3/20 fished with some long time clients the Smiths and their kids today.  Spring cold front came through and made for some cold temps in the morning, but we all bundled up and gave it a shot.  Started out feeding some sheepshead, then they caught about 8, with the largest being 4 pounds.  As it started to warm up with the calm seas we decided to fish the reef for the last hour and the boys caught a dozen weakfish, and some other bottom fish.
2nd trip that day I ran a quick 2.5 hour Kiawah Kids fishing charter and we had a big time, catching 7 sheepshead , 1 redfish and a couple of black drum to finish the trip.

Kiawah Island Inshore Fishing Charter

10/2/2014  I fished out of Kiawah with Jeff and his friend, and the Fall bite was on fire.  We mostly fished live shrimp and mullet, and first started fishing structure and in about 2 hours they boated 44 small redfish between 1-8 pounds, then for the last half of the trip we hit the inlet to try for something larger and they boated 6 huge reds between 18-25 pounds.  I wish it was Fall all year long, fishing is good all year long but best September through early December.

Kiawah Island Fishing Charter

11/10 Monday I fished a double out of Kiawah.  Morning trip was cold and windy and it took us a good 2 hours to find a good bite, but once we did it was on fire and made us quit thinking about the cold.  For a solid hour and a half I had 4 guys catching sea trout, probably around 40, they kept 6 for a fresh fish dinner.
2nd trip was a better tide and I had 3 golfers from the other side of the pond ( England). A fun trip with a good bite , first couple of hours they caught a bunch of sea trout ( maybe 30-40) mostly small fish and a 15 pound redfish.  Final spot produced a good mixed bag in the last hour with a dozen more  reds, 5 black drum, 3 sheepshead, couple sea bass, and a flounder.

Kiawah Island Inshore Fishing Charter

10/26   ran a double out of Kiawah Island today.  First trip did a 2.5 hour creek fishing and kept everyone busy with some steady popping cork action, got a mixed bag of: sea trout, ladyfish, blues, pinfish, needlefish , and lizard fish.
Second trip had a 1/2 day inshore trip, and we started with some light tackle fishing around oysters and structure, catching a bunch of small trout, black drum and sheepshead , then we spent the last hour targeting the big stuff and Coleman caught his first 2 reds ( 27 and 29 pounds) and a bull shark.

Kiawah Island Inshore Fishing Charter

10/15 I ran a double out of Kiawah today and the weather was beautiful and the Fall bite was strong.  Fished this morning with long time client and good friend Andreas Bechtler and his friend Dieter from Europe.  The first 3 hours were non stop redfish action, they landed 47 reds, 1 trout, 3 black drum and 2 sheepshead.  Weather was perfect and the wildlife was putting on a show today, we got to observe dolphins strand feeding, a pair of bald eagles stealing a fish from an osprey, deer and turkeys in the marsh.
My 2nd group was a corporate banking group from New York, wind picked up and water got murky but it didn't slow the trout bite, they caught around 30 sea trout on popping corks, with some bluefish and ladyfish mixed in.