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Fishing Hilton Head, Savannah, and Beaufort Fly or Spin

scott — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:36:25 +0000

Couldn’t even take pics of all the fish All I can say is” Epic” Crystal clear water and big schools of reds cruising the flats, I truly can’t describe what we were dealing with, but it was all good! Paul Rankin having some fun. Sorry I put 2 shots of same fish in. And as always make when hiring your guide for flats fishing he at least has a flats boat.

Dang it!

scott — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:59:23 +0000

Well last night was perfect weather perfect water clarity, the only prob was the tide was late and with low sun we kept bumping some real big schools of fish. We had a few eats on fly but never came tight so we decided to start banging w/ the spin and it paid off. Tides are starting to cooperate as the week goes on so the sight casting will only get better. What a winter this has been, with mild temps and for the most part light winds I can’t think of a winter in the past 20years that I have been caught as many fish in Jan as this year.

Make Sure

scott — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:21:03 +0000

Make sure when hiring a local guide for fly fishing that he at least has a good flats boat. Too many google advertising guides out there saying they can take you fly fishing only to be constantly spooking fishing from great distances. Todays reds are far to spooky for a barge approach in shallow waters. A good quite flats boat is as important as fly selection.

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scott — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:52:16 +0000

William w/ Big'uns

This January has to go down as the best fishing weather and catching weather ever. That was until Cal Collier and his son William arrived. Winds never below 20 and clouds,. Yea! Overall it has been great though with some nice schools of fish doing their thing, and accepting our offerings. Prop 27, the measure that gives Georgia DNR the ability to manage our fisheries with some opposition. Let’s hope this measure will pass and then let’s hope Georgia DNR will bring the state into modern fisheries management. All fish caught and released in the Cane Patch area of Ossabaw.

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scott — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:30:17 +0000

Well after 7 days of great fishing and perfect weather all good things must end, now it’s raining and blowing. This winter has been so nice in comparison to last winter freezing temps and howling north west winds, maybe there is global warming and if so I welcome it for now. Outlook for the remainder of the winter looks mild so hopefully we’ll have more good days ahead. Bob Vought and I headed out on monday and found some fish but with clouds and tough wind it made things a bit difficult but not impossible. Sometime as a guide ya get a bit jammed up at s spot not wanting to leave, then ya do and still get the wrong results. Than you go for a bit of a ride and sometimes find what ya want. Happy Fish!

Bob with a beautiful sunset fish

Red Rumblin!!

scott — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:01:10 +0000

9 o'clock 60 feet and closing

I’ve been poling the Low Country area now for 20 years and have never seen a better January. This past week has provided the perfect weather for chasing reds on the flats. After so many perfect days I can’t even begin to count how many fish we caught on fly!! With the water clear and the winds light the reds have been tailing and slurping small bait fish in some very skinny water. These are just a few of the fish caught, can’t keep digging out the camera for every fish.

Hilton Head, Savannah, Beaufort. Fly and Spin fishing

scott — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:20:10 +0000

Good Gosh!! The past couple of days have had great action!! Yesterday Mr Rawlings and I pulled up to a school of 150 fish tailing and popping baits along a lee ward bank. The sick part was the starting temp was 24 degrees. Can’t say over the past 20 years I’ve seen that happen too often. These fish were having some fun and didn’t seem to mind we were there catching them. 14 fish later what a day. Today was a bit different, with winds around 20 we had our work cut out for us. Hank Goodwin and myself found our first flat blown out, second flat blown, third flat blown out, Shit!! Well I had found a few fish on a section of flat about a month ago so the run was on. We pulled up and what I thought was a few fish turned out to be about 100. The fish were tailing and creeping with backs out as well. With the winds blow’n hard and the water a bit muddy, things were tough. Still managed 6 nice fish w/ 2 of them pushing 10lbs!

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scott — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:08:42 +0000

With the ending of the the year I wish I could say we finished with a bang, With mid day high tides it’s been a narrow window on the reds. Being said we have caught reds and some trout to finish off the year. Not much going on with the stripers, it seems as the bulk of the fish are moving to feed on the shrimp and then heading back up river as the shrimp migrate out. That being said, stripers can still be caught, but I wouldn’t make a day of looking for them. I have been talking to some folks about menhaden along the Atlantic coast and with stocks down 80% of historical highs, our striper, jacks and tarpon irregularities seem to be pacing with this decline. Food for thought. This may also be causing some decline in trout, granted we have had some cold winters in the past, but a combo of cold winters and lack of forage who knows?

For Sale

scott — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:39:02 +0000

Selling the skiff to make room for a new one, Call if interested.

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scott — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:54:35 +0000

BenPiggot gave me a call saying he was in from England and wanted to do some fishing. Well it was cold blowing 25 plus, so what else are ya going to do? Go fishing! What a nice surprise we had when the stripers we’re on top popping baits. After catching some nice fish and the blitz subsiding we began pitching plastics and dang if we didn’t catch a nice flounder. IN all it was a great day fishing! Ya never know till ya go!

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