I need to have my backside cut for not keeping up with the fishing reports, but I will try to make up for it. The Tarpon season was cut short again by bad weather in September, just when the sound was full of Tarpon the wind and rain kept us off the fishing grounds. Tarpon season was decent this year with the largest fish landed around 126 pounds measured by taking the length and girth and applying the weight formula. The inshore Bull Redfish bite was another short season, 5 fish trips were common the first two weeks of October then the fish left the area. Now the Bull Reds are offshore around the near shore wrecks and the Port Royal Shipping Channel. Yesterday we caught and tagged 7 from 37″ to 41″. We also had the privilege a couple of weeks ago of landing the first Bull Red Drum re-capture. The fish was the 4th fish tagged last year by Glenn Ulrich next to the Broad River Bridge. We caught the Red about a mile and a half from the bridge towards the sound. The fish only grew a 1/4 inch. Good to have some evidence that our adult Red Drum seem to stay in our waters. The other good news to write about, the fall bite of inshore Redfish and Trout is wide open. Fishing the outgoing tide in all the prime areas Redfish can be taken on most artificial es and cut bait, though anything Gulp is my favorite. If trolling is your game, plenty of Trout to catch trolling the marsh edges with Electric Chicken grubs. Business is slow but the fishing is Hot, lets Go!
