January Beaufort South Carolina Fishing Report

It has been a good winter season here in the South Carolina lowcountry. We did have a few cold fronts roll through that did make the fishing slow over Christmas and New Years holiday but for the most part the fish were still eating and staying active. Water temps are almost back to normal for this time of year. Low tide has been the most productive, although I have been seeing some happy redfish on the move on the higher tide charging and ambushing schools of mullet (which is little different for this time of year) but has been producing some solid sight fishing for fly or spin as they are usually moving slow and floating high waiting to charge anything that crosses their path. Low tide has been producing the usual large schools of concentrated redfish we get this time of year and have been actively chasing and feeding on shrimp and mullet that is still around making it very exciting on the right given days as long as the dolphins stay away! There hasn’t been too many slow days since a little after New Years, but there has been a few mornings where they were very wary from dolphin attacks but moving slow and with some patience and a decent 60 to 80 foot fly cast or spin rod was the ticket. My fly rod set ups have been a 8 wt - 9 wt Winston Air salt , 7 plus Hatch Iconic reels Rigged with Airflow redfish fly lines with at least a 10-12 ft hand tied flourocarbon leader and a secret fly out of my box. Enough talking Lets go fishing!

Cheers,

Capt. Nick Boyd

Cell (843)941-3416

Duesouthfishingexpeditions@gmail.com