Found this flounder amongst a school of redfish in one of the mudflats on Hilton Head’s Skull Creek. When you’re casting to reds and you hook a flounder, you’ll feel the difference immediately. A redfish usually darts off in one direction or the other, shakes his head, and make sudden, unpredictable changes in course. The…
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WOW are we lucky! Hilton Head is perfectly situated along the Southeast US coast for Spring cobia fishing. We have a couple amazing opportunities for cobia fishing just out Hilton Head’s front and back doors. Let me explain: Inshore Cobia Fishing The Hilton Head area has historically been home to one of the largest inshore…
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The subject of this post is not my hatless head after a 90 minute boat ride, as perhaps that deserves a post of its own. No, it’s the Atlantic spadefish, aka “angelfish” and “moonfish” which are some super fun to catch fish found offshore from Hilton Head Island. Despite the moniker ‘angelfish’, these fish are…
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I typically begin seeing schools of Spanish Mackerel inshore in Hilton Head starting in mid-April. Here’s one from May of last year that was caught within sight of the Hilton Head bridge! Spanish Mackerel can be found in Hilton Head’s bordering waterways of Calibogue Sound and Port Royal Sound. I even encounter them on inshore…
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Here’s something we don’t see everyday, a Rock Sea Bass caught off some pilings in early December 2012. He was hungry for some shrimp.
From our very first stop today, we had a steady trout bite. The fish took mud minnows under popping corks, artificial shrimp and curly tail jigs. Both bright and natural colors worked, it seems they were hitting just about anything you put in front of them. Most fish were in the 13-15″ range with a…
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I was surprised to reel this unusual catch to the boat. Unusual for here, at least. Mangrove Snapper are quite common further south in Florida, but South Carolina doesn’t see a lot of them inshore in the marsh creeks like this. It was my first in all my years of fishing here. This one took…
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