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Had intentions to fish and scallop today with Fishing CPA and Al(his 1st time flats fishing). Decided at the last minute to forget bringing the scallop gear and just fish. Got going later than usual...someone was late getting to the house. Some sort of alarm malfunction. The wind was way higher than NOAA said and the water was very dirty. The water temp was 80-85 degrees today. Al drew 1st blood catching his 1st ever trout(keeper) We fished hard all day from 4' all the way out to 11' deep. Fish were hard to come by and bites were few and far between. The water seemed to get even rougher as the day went on. We even heard on the radio that a 16' Carolina Skiff over turned out in front of Dekle Beach. I caught 2 trout and Fishing Cpa finally got one 5 minutes before we left. Fishing was tough out there but we had fun anyway. Hope everyone else had better luck.
Rhettley wrote:I'd have been happy with 4 nice trout under these conditions. Looks like a fun day on the water.
Considering what we were hearing on the radio we felt we did pretty good. Does anyone know how that boat flipped? They said no injuries and Sea tow was going to recover boat later that day.
We were also down there Saturday (w/ Breambuster and BBJr). We wound up with a pretty good day, a limit of trout topped off by a 22" picked up by BBJr. Maybe BB will post his pick. We also scalloped for a very short time with no success in some very stained water over by Grassy Island. We caught trout in 3.5' to 8', but had our best success around 6'. Water was a 'warm' 83-86 degrees and very stained. Fortunately we had a pretty good wind all day.
ddb wrote:We were also down there Saturday (w/ Breambuster and BBJr). We wound up with a pretty good day, a limit of trout topped off by a 22" picked up by BBJr. Maybe BB will post his pick. We also scalloped for a very short time with no success in some very stained water over by Grassy Island. We caught trout in 3.5' to 8', but had our best success around 6'. Water was a 'warm' 83-86 degrees and very stained. Fortunately we had a pretty good wind all day.
Your killing me. How do you do it? Please post a report so I can be successfull vicariously. What did you catch them on?
A little bit of luck and a lotta skill by someone other than myself We felt real fortunate to pick up what we did. I think we just happened to stumble on an area where the fish were willing and could see our bait. I was happy to have a much stronger wind than they had predicted, I'm sure that helped. We picked up fish most of the day with a short lul around low tide. We took advantage of that to go for a swim, our intent was to scallop, but since we didn't find any I'll call it a swim. Pin fish appeared to be the ticket, although BBJr picked up a few on candy-corn eel.
Bet I could tell you H&M but maybe Peng will Chime in for a change!! we miss the reports and heck since you've been oversea all summer don't we deserve one??!
Ranaman wrote:Bet I could tell you H&M but maybe Peng will Chime in for a change!! we miss the reports and heck since you've been oversea all summer don't we deserve one??!
BTW nice job on a rough day Greg!
I thought we did ok but the masters BB and DDB showed us grasshoppers that we have much to learn.
Had intentions to fish and scallop today with Fishing CPA and Al(his 1st time flats fishing). Decided at the last minute to forget bringing the scallop gear and just fish. Got going later than usual...someone was late getting to the house.
Some sort of alarm malfunction. 
We fished hard all day from 4' all the way out to 11' deep. Fish were hard to come by and bites were few and far between. The water seemed to get even rougher as the day went on. We even heard on the radio that a 16' Carolina Skiff over turned out in front of Dekle Beach. I caught 2 trout and Fishing Cpa finally got one 5 minutes before we left. 
Fishing was tough out there but we had fun anyway. Hope everyone else had better luck.
We felt real fortunate to pick up what we did. I think we just happened to stumble on an area where the fish were willing and could see our bait. I was happy to have a much stronger wind than they had predicted, I'm sure that helped. We picked up fish most of the day with a short lul around low tide. We took advantage of that to go for a swim, our intent was to scallop, but since we didn't find any I'll call it a swim. Pin fish appeared to be the ticket, although BBJr picked up a few on candy-corn eel.
