Charleston Harbor and Kiawah Inshore

[Capt John Ward]

Just returned from SKA Nationals and had a blast. We placed 11th overall and top boat from SC with a 45 and 42 pound fish. The bite was the best I have ever seen on Friday we boated 71 kings between 18-45 pounds even caught 15 casting lures, and broke off another 30 fish. Day before we prefished and caught bait, while jigging we caught tons of: jacks, runners, pompano, triggers, and snapper.
This last week I fished 5 trips in 4 days and the water is cooling down 59-63 degrees but the bite is still strong with : reds, trout, black drum, and sheeps head. Monday my group caught 20 redfish and 21 sea trout mostly on Zman lures. Wednesday hit the reef for half of the trip and boated around 50 seabass before returning to a hot trout bite of 35 fish mostly caught on live shrimp. Friday was windy and cold but we managed 35 sheepshead and 6 big redfish on fiddlers and shrimp. SAturday fished a double both trips ended well with first one catching 41 trout and big black drum and second trip caught 19 redfish and 1 trout.