The winter fishing has been really good with the slight warming trend. Schools in the Hilton Head and Broad river area are as large as I have seen. With 10-20 fish days and sometimes more on fly and spin. Yesterday was one one of those days you dream about as a guide and angler, we had reds busting baits on the flats and taking poppers on the fly! Over the pasts 20 years of poling the area I can’t remember getting reds to come on on poppers so aggressively Not much to report on the striper front. I have been twice with no luck, we need a serious warming trend to get that bait higher in the water column and make the stripers a bit more accessible. I will have plenty of pics to come, my computer is on the blink so I have been unable to get anything posted.
Tag: Hilton Head Fly Fishing Beaufort fly fishing
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- Dang it’s cold
Will, Brent Watts and myself decided to chase some chilly weather reds and were not disappointed. Every Time I get the chance to fish with Will I always know a good times are going to be had. We decided to head out to Wassaw sound and see how many reds made t through the fall onslaught. First couple of places didn’t show much but we did manage to find a nice school of res in clear water that were excited to see us. Havn’t heard much on the stripers, I will go as soon as the tides come back down. With high water and plenty of fresh water coming down river the clarity has not been to good. Hopefully these conditions will subside and provide us with some good striper action. Still getting more reports of dead trout from the cold, 2 winters in a row now. With the trout declining this will only put more pressure on our reds. Food for tought. With the trout, yellowtail and pinfish dying off in the cold there are not a s many predators on juvenile reds. This is what may have made a the increase in the reds we saw last fall. Now what do we do if we start having mild winters again and the predators are back in full swing? will this show a decrease in reds?