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WWW.OAKLEY.COM MAKO EYEWEAR BLADE The Mako Polarized sunglass collection launched this year in the United States, featuring a range of technical lenses created for outdoor sports with a particular focus on fishing. One of the best-selling Mako Polarized sunglasses is the Blade, offering a comfortable fit without sacrificing style. An eight-base design, the Blade wraps close to your face, reducing side light and improving line-of-sight and peripheral vision. Thin arms reduce pressure over the ears and are excellent for fishermen who always wear a hat. Mako sunglasses are available in four polarized glare-reducing lens types, all made from glass for its scratch-resistant properties and ultimate clarity. All of our sunglasses have an industry-leading 12+ anti-reflective coatings, advanced polarization, and oleophobic and hydrophobic coatings to repel oil, dust, dirt and water. The featured lens for the Blade is the Green Mirror (G2H5), polarized lens, featuring a special rose base color which helps you see enhanced detail at a greater depth. The internal green mirror reflects the brightest sunlight while its high definition filter removes harmful UV light rays, enhances color and increases contrast.
WWW.MAKOEYEWEAR.COM COSTA CAPE Costa’s new Cape style is an extra-large frame that offers massive lenses and ultra-wide temples to provide the most protection from the sun’s harmful rays. Manufactured from biodegradable resins sourced from reclaimed castor oil, Costa’s new frame withstands the elements of adventure while also providing comfort and wearability. Cape features Costa’s new innovative sweat management system, with ventilation ducting allowing air to flow through the end piece of the frame, which reduces lens fogging. Sweat management temple channels enable airflow from the vents to cool, wick away and drain sweat and moisture through openings on the temple tips. In addition, a thinned out inner bottom eyewire tucks closely into the back surface of the lens, which allows sweat and moisture to drain down the back of the lens and off the frame. The new style also features Costa’s patented 580 lens technology, providing 100 percent UV protection and polarization to give anglers the clearest lenses on the planet. Color-enhancing technology filters out harsh yellow light for superior contrast and definition and absorbs high-energy blue light to cut haze and enhance sharpness. Cape is available in matte black ultra, shiny steel gray metallic, bowfin and matte russet, with lenses in seven lens colors, including Sunrise Silver Mirror and Gray Silver Mirror. The new frame can also be customized with prescription lenses.
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OCEAN WAVES JAX BEACH Ocean Waves Sunglasses, renowned for fishing eyewear, has produced an excellent and versatile pair of fishing glasses with their Jax Beach frame. The Jax Beach comes in tortoise or matte black and has the widest range of size flexibility and wrap to fit anyone’s head. From small to XL head sizes, the Jax Beach provides a great wrap look, excellent coverage, and comfortable fit and feel. The Jax Beach can be paired with any of Ocean Waves’ specialized lens types according to the angler’s personal preference and visual needs. Ocean Waves Sunglasses customizes fit, utilizing two lens curvatures, which can be selected in any of the company’s high-quality mirrored lenses: Offshore Blue (OSB), Backwater Green (BWG), Lunar Silver (LS – ultra dark), or Luminator Purple (LP – light enhancing) as well as non-mirrored Grey and Amber. Piece together the perfect shades to fit your style and needs.
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RIO RAY MALIBU Rio Ray Optics is the best new affordable polarized brand on the market. Designed for the outdoor lifestyle, all Rio Ray sunglasses come with 100-percent optically correct polarized CR39 lenses, frames with indestructible TR90, acetate and memory metal titanium with optical spring hinges for maximum comfort and a hassle-free lifetime warranty. All Rio Ray hard-coated polarized lenses are made of the highest quality CR39 and contain nine layers of protection with 100 percent UV protection. A hydrophobic coating on the front repels water, sunscreen and dirt, which makes cleaning and maintenance easy. A vibrant flash mirror provides additional glare reduction, and a superior scratch resistant coating prevents lens damage. The backside anti-reflective coating eliminates bounce-back glare. Rio Ray MaxFlex frame technology makes these the most comfortable sunglasses on the market, utilizing lightweight TR90 nylon, which maintains frame shape and offers incredible durability. Frames are prescription ready, and each pair comes with a full array of accessories including a hard and soft case and cleaning cloth. The frames here are Rio Ray’s Malibus. Go to their website to see all their stylish models. For dealer inquires, call 800-498-2104 or email jarrod@riorayoptics.com.
American-owned and based in Florida, RCI Optics is producing the most advanced sunglasses, equipped with more features than any other brand. These glasses, manufactured in Italy, are lightweight and incredibly durable, with optics that are crisp and clean with unbeatable polarization. Built for the elite waterman and outdoor enthusiast, RCI’s glasses are in a league of their own. RCI’s Power Plants are made with a Ballista 2.0 frame material that’s virtually bombproof. The Helius 2.2 lens material is six times denser than standard polycarbonate lenses. An ANSI Z87.1 safety rating meets OSHA requirements for safety glasses, and a Mil Std 662 military rating stops a .15 caliber projectile fired at 650 ft. per second. How’s that for durability? Well, they’re also top-notch in terms of optics. RCT (Radius Curving Technology) offers distortion-free optics for the clearest vision. These shades are 99.9 percent polarized, using injected polarization, not laminated. H780 Infrared blocking technology eliminates harmful radiation. Multilayered antireflective coatings eliminate distracting internal reflections, and permanent hydrophobic, oleophobic and antistatic coatings are applied to both sides of the lenses. Try a pair for yourself and you will see why they say, “The Advantage is Clear.”
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The most recognizable name on the water, Salt Life, is also the maker of stellar sunglasses. Their Andros Matte Black sunglasses are performance designed and lightweight, offering extreme comfort for extended wear in the sun. Made in Italy with highquality glass lenses, they allow you to see images crisper and clearer. Andros are available in lens colors of Smoke Blue and Copper Green. Their lenses are 100-percent UV protected with five layers of anti-glare reflective coating that completely eliminates glare. Go out and get noticed in Salt Life sunglasses.
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extend from back to belly. Step 2: Run the blade from the first cut all the way down the top of the fish, along the backbone to the tail, making a shallow incision as close to the backbone as you can get it. Step 3: Using that long cut along the backbone, utilize smooth, light strokes to work the fillet away from the bones moving from the back to the belly. The other hand can be used to peel back the meat as you go. Cut around the ribcage when you arrive at it. Step 4: With step 3 completed, you should have a beautiful skinon fillet. To remove the skin, place the fillet on the board skin side down. Start from the tail and insert the knife through the meat down to the skin, leaving a tab of meat and skin at the tail to hold onto. Turn the knife horizontal and run the blade up the skin to remove the meat. Step 5: Use tweezers to pick out any pin bones left in the fillet. The technique seems simple enough, but if you don’t have good, sharp, flexible knives that are sized correctly for the fish on the board, you’re going to make a mess out of your fillets. Havalon has come up with an all-in-one solution for this issue with its Talon system. With five styles of high-quality blades that all fit on the same handle, switching from a 7-inch blade down to a 5-incher or even down to a 3.5-inch utility blade is as easy as pressing a button with their Quik-Change II blade replacement system. The blades can be resharpened as well as replaced to make sure they are razor sharp when you need them. Also, with a handle that opens up, clean-up is both thorough and easy with the Havalon Talon system. Rinse your tools down and roll them up in the included canvas kit so they’ll be ready the next time you need them. And next time should be soon, because practice is the final and most important element in the perfect way to fillet. Go fishing enough, and you’ll be peeling off perfect fillets for the table in no time. Check out the Havalon Talon System at www.havalon.com.
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e call them “dinks” here on the Gulf Coast of Texas. They are the spotted seatrout that are undersize or just barely legal. There are many anglers out there this summer who will be happy to catch a limit of trout, even though they are dinks. But there is also a strong contingent of anglers, like me, who would rather catch trout in the 18- to 20-inch or larger Derek Change caught this nice trout on a TroutSupport GrassWalker lure. range or go catch redfish. You can put several things in your favor to help you catch better quality summertime trout. One of those is not fishing too shallow during the heat of summer. The forage better quality trout eat is oxygen level dependent. Species such as glass minnows, silversides and menhaden move deeper in the summer heat. Continuing to fish shallow grass flat edges during July and August is a great recipe for catching smaller-than-average, undersized spotted seatrout. Look for structure that is deeper than 8 feet in your bay system. If it has good current, you’ll find it also has better quality seatrout during the heat of the summer. On rare occasions, a very large trout will be feeding on the small trout and mullet in shallow water. But trying to target fish in this scenario tends to be a Hail Mary more than a good plan, unless it’s an area that typically holds big trout. Big trout can be caught on structure at the edge of deep water pre-dawn until about sunrise, but many will just stay deep during this period. Hunt the fish, and you should have better results. Tobin created TroutSupport.com - Precision Teaching and Tools for Speckled Trout and Redfish.
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ant to try salt water fishing in the Atlantic Ocean, but not sure if the whole family will like it? Why not fish on a head boat! Being a head boat and charter boat captain for many years I’ve heard and seen it all regarding the why you should and why you shouldn’t fish on a head boat. From it’s too crowded, you will get tangled, the boats and people smell to it’s not real fishing! I believe it’s the best way to experience ocean fishing for several reasons. Let’s start with both my sons. Their first experience fishing from a boat in the Atlantic Ocean was on the Norma K 3 head boat out of Point Pleasant NJ. The main reason, whether it is an adult or a 6-year-old you want that first experience to be a good one. I’m not saying that everything will go perfect each time you go out but catching fish and hopefully a lot of them is the goal and you have a very good chance of catching a lot of fish on a local head boat. Especially if the goal is to fish in aquarium and catch a lot of smaller seabass plus a keeper now and then, nothing like catching a double header one after
another for a newbie fisherman, plus have a shot at an Atlantic Sharp-nosed Shark for the BBQ. It’s fun fishing at its best! It you’re meat fishing you may want to go on one of the full day offshore trips. That’s the way to catch bigger fish like grouper, snapper and keeper Seabass plus several other species for the freezer and dinner. The difference is price and time on the water. Half day 4-hour trips range from $25 to $45 per person where full day 8 to 12-hour offshore trips range from $65 to $125. The deeper you go the bigger the fish in most cases. Here are some hints to have a good day on the water along with a little head boat etiquette. Check the local “marine� forecast before taking your small children or pregnant wife out on a choppy sea. One of the big advantages of a head boat is they are big and stable, but if the marine forecast is calling for 5 to 6 ft seas and 25 to 30kts winds, it may be ok for some but leave the kids home. Worse thing you could do is get a first timer seasick. It amazes me when we warn the families that it’s going to be rough and they go anyway. Here’s a question, if the Captain on an airliner said to you it’s not a good day to fly, would you listen? So please listen to your boat captain. Find out ahead of time what you can and should bring with you. Sunblock, hats and sunglasses are highly recommended. Most head boats have all you need from rods, reels and bait to drinks and snacks. You will find drinks, snacks and specialty baits are very reasonably priced. Let’s talk about tips! Treat your mates like you would treat a good waiter or waitress in an ex-
cellent restaurant. Meaning if they take care of you please take care of them. 20% is the normal amount, so if you plan ahead you won’t be the one telling them you didn’t bring your wallet or slipping a dollar bill in the tip jar. Mates on a boat depend on their tips to make a living, as they don’t make a big per trip rate, so reward them for an excellent job done as they work hard to make your day great. And my favorite, be on time! If the boat leaves at 8:30 be there at 7:45. Can’t tell you how many times the boat is full, and we are waiting at the dock for a late group. If you’re on time, you board first, get to pick your spot, check the rods and relax. There are plenty boats to choose from that run 7 days a week from Calabash, Little River, N. Myrtle Beach and Murrells Inlet. All are good with great captains and crews, pick one and go have a great fishing trip on the Atlantic Ocean!
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KYLE’S KORNER
BY KYLE MASIERO
“ARE YOU THE ONE THEY CALL SPANIARD?”
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h the Spanish Mackerel, where to begin. Not exactly the hardest fish to catch but let’s start with how these fish feed. Spanish look for bait. They are open water fish even though in the warmer months they can be caught close to shore. They don’t just swim around aimlessly, they look for bait, so where you have bait eventually you will have Spanish. Like their bigger cousins the King Mackerel they also feed in schools. One thing they do is send out “scouts”, basically you will have a school of bait a few Spanish will show up and ball that bait up and that’s when things get fun! Soon after the rest of the school shows up pushing the bait to the surface and causing that boiling storm that all fisherman go crazy over. Now this frenzy won’t last long, as soon as the bait ball is torn apart the Spanish will move
on looking for their next meal. If I break the Inlet I always look for feeding birds, why? Because where you have feeding birds you have bait, where you have bait most of the time you have feeding fish and usually in the summer months near shore those fish are Spanish. The tried and true method is using a Planer attached to a clip on your main line then attached to the Planer is about 10ft of mono leader followed by a 00 spoon, this is a great method and will catch plenty of Spanish but in my opinion it’s a better way to find the fish, but if you want to have more fun, what we do is troll through a few schools of bait, or if we see no bait we troll in different locations looking for breaks in water color or on top of a near shore reef. If we get a couple of good hook ups we don’t just continue to troll. My suggestion is, STOP trolling get on top of the bait or the area that you had multiple hook ups and take out
your spinning rod and cast away using small metals. I always laugh while I’m sitting on a bait ball casting in a spoon while people aimlessly troll around the bait ball.
When these fish are feeding they will hit any type of small metal. You can also try a popper if you notice the fish feeding high on the surface or a jig if you see the bait ball is deep, meaning the fish are probably feeding deeper. If you’re only getting fish to bite on the troll and they will not hit anything else, then of course continue to troll. One thing I can suggest, because there is nothing I hate more than having to fight a fish and a Planer, is to use a Planer rod/
line, basically attach your Planer to a separate line and use a breakaway clip then run your main line through the breakaway clip. When the fish hits it breaks away from the Planer and you fight the fish not the Planer.
So go ahead and catch a Spaniard, which by the way is one of the best tasting fish in the ocean! As always, I wish you calm winds, tight lines and following seas.
With love and respect. Capt. Kyle Masiero
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The Student Angler League Tournament Trail completed its fourth season with around 100 local middle and high school boys and girls. There were around 30 schools represented from public to private to even homeschooled. With help from two local boat captains, Jason Burton of Murrells Inlet Fishing Charters and Jerry Condenzio of Crumbs Outpost, the weigh ins were exci�ng. For the six individual tournaments, the top three of each species of freshwater bass or saltwater red drum won gi� cards from local bait and tackle shops. At the end of all six individual tourneys, each kid took home an item from the raffle table provided by partners with SALTT like a rod, cooler, fishing tackle, hat, or a shirt. The trail winners took home a rod and reel combo donated by Lews. Trail Champions Middle School Reds
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Ashton Rouhselang and Lance Cooper 28.48 / 59
Middle School Bass
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Trail Champions is the best 4 of 6 bag weights with points used as a �ebreaker. The Champions win a LEWs rod and reel combina�on plus gi� cards. The following teams received gi� cards finishing with more points than the Trail Champs. Each team below also finished a very close 2nd place. Middle School Bass
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Jacob Mar�n and Chandler Hanna
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Georgetown High
Andrew Ackerman and Jeremy Owens 36.03 / 43
22.21 / 48
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On The River with Matt Varnadore I own a small business in Conway, SC called Waccamaw Outfitters. We specialize in river tours up and down the Waccamaw River showing locals and visitors a side of Conway that they may not get to see unless they have a boat. I get a lot of the same questions on my tours and I wanted to take some time to address a few of the most popular questions I get. Now again, I am no expert on the Waccamaw River, but I have lived here and played on this river my entire life and my answers are based on personal experiences, local lore and research I do when I don’t know the answers. Where does the Waccamaw River start? • The Waccamaw originates in Lake Waccamaw North Carolina and flows south for approximately 140 miles (Wikipedia). What kinds of fish are in the river? • Our river has a wide variety of fish like catfish, largemouth bass, bluegill, and gar fish just to name a few. The bream and bass are probably the most sought after species on the river. Is the river fresh water, salt water or brackish? • The Waccamaw River is a tidal freshwater river that connects into the Intercostal Waterway approximately 15 miles from Conway via river. Are there any alligators in the river? • Yes, we have many alligators, water moccasins, turtles and a wide variety of birds like the ever popular Osprey. What kind of trees are those that grow in the water? • Our banks are full of Bald Cypress trees that have many unique shapes and sizes and you cannot forget about the very unique Cypress knees that grow beside them. The last question is one for debate because over the years I have heard many different reasons. Why is the water black? • My understanding as to why the river is black is because of the tannins in our soil. I have also been told by other locals that the Cypress trees have a lot to do with the color of our water as well. Although the river looks scary to some this is one of the cleanest and refreshing rivers and there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. We swim, ski and eat the fish from the river. I enjoy what I do and these are just a few of my favorite questions that are asked on our tours. These are all great questions and they cause me as a tour guide to learn more about my home. If you have never experienced the beauty of the Waccamaw I encourage you to take a trip down it. Restaurants, lodging and unique mom and pop shops are located either on the water or within walking distance. There is plenty of dock space and the river is plenty deep to accommodate most boats. So take some time and come explore the Waccamaw and come see Conway while you’re On the River.
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n the real estate world, it’s all about Location…Location… and Location. Folks want to put
down their roots in an area that is convenient to shopping, grocery stores, good schools, social activities and their workplace. And, they want to live in a climate that suits their particular taste. When you think about it, the same is true for our piscatorial friends in both fresh and saltwater. Although they may not be pushing a squeakywheeled cart down a grocery aisle, they will find a home where there’s ample forage. And their schools teach more about the benefits of “safety-in-numbers” than quantum physics. Picking the most suitable location to make a homestead is as important to fish as it is to us two-legged critters. If you keep that in mind as you make your selection on where to fish, and in many cases…how to fish, you’ll find your days will become more productive. With perhaps the exception of the top predators, most fish base their location selection on the Big Three…Food, Comfort and Safety. Identify where all three of those factors converge and you’ve got a very fishy spot. Game fish have to eat, and they have to eat often…whether it’s a rainbow trout dining on tiny nymphs or billfish that will eat a 25 pound tuna in one bite. A yellowfin tuna has to eat nearly its own weight in food every day, because it spends its entire life roaming the ocean currents. And that uses up a lot of energy. On the other hand, large trout will find a spot in a slip-stream behind a rock waiting for a tasty tidbit to float by. They simply tilt their pectoral fins and the current lifts them up, just like airplane wings to grab a tiny midge and then glide back down to their rock again. Not a lot of energy expended for the protein they just gulped. So your first task is to find the kitchen. Sometimes it’s pretty obvious when you see baitfish being corralled on the surface. Sometimes it takes a little more thought and knowledge to locate the dining area. There are seasonal patterns that occur and if you do a little research, or ask around at the local tackle stores, you can get some very valuable information. The next component is Comfort.
Fish will move both horizontally and vertically to find a location that is comfortable. Just like us, they have to breathe. So they will congregate in place in the water column that has the right amount of dissolved oxygen. Ever notice how reservoir-based stripers will move to deeper water in the summertime? Sure the water is warmer at the surface than it is 50 feet down, but that warm water doesn’t hold as much oxygen as the cooler water does down deep. Fish are cold-blooded, and the actual temperature of the water may have less to do with preferred locations than the oxygen content. Look
the grass flats, concealing them from overhead predators like ospreys. And coincidentally, shell banks are great places to fish for flounder, and grass flats are prime locations for catching speckled trout. Starting to see a pattern? An inland lake, coastal waters, even a mountain trout stream will usually have places that provide at least two out of the three factors. And during certain times of the year, you’ll find a spot that has all three. That would be considered the gold mine. To find these spots, modern technology has provided us anglers with an assortment of tools. Simrad DownScan will show ledges and drop-off ’s, structure, creek channels, bottom composition. Typical
spots that hold game fish. Services like Sirius/XM Marine Weather interfaces with your chart plotter to show contemporary weather systems, sea surface temperature, wave period, and wind speed/ direction…all of which can be contributing factors to the bite, as well as letting you know when it’s time to head for the barn. So, do a little homework and check out the real estate below the surface before you make your first cast. Find a location that has the Big Three... Food, Comfort and Safety and you’ll be well on your way to closing the sale on some fine fishing.
Tight Lines and Calm Seas, Capt. Cefus McRae
at how many fish hang around a natural spring upwelling or at a seamount, compared to a placid, sun-baked flat. Remember the old adage about water temperature…“68 and the Fishin’s Great!”. Most of us have experienced the impact weather can have on the fishing. And changes in the barometric pressure, especially quick changes that occur with rapidly moving fronts can make a dramatic difference in the bite. As the front approaches, the bite can really fire up. And when the front arrives the fish may get lock-jaw for a couple days. I believe the change in pressure (which transfers into the water) can make fish either lethargic or frisky. And the third piece of the puzzle is Safety. Why isn’t Safety the number one factor? Well if you are starving to death, or can’t breathe, being in a safe place doesn’t really matter does it? Safety can come in the form of a good hiding place like a rock outcropping, vertical structure such as
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Inshore the Flounder bite has been great and larger fish are finally being caught using Mud Minnows is your best option. Plenty of Black Drum on the rocks. Spanish Mackerel are being caught on the troll look for this to pick up as the water warms up. Offshore the bottom fishing has been great with your pick of Grouper and Snapper. The Mahi are here and biting like crazy along with Blackfin Tuna and the occasional Sail Fish. .
In Murrells Inlet the Flounder and Sea Trout are hitting strong at almost every creek mouth. The Nearshore wrecks are holding plenty of Seabass most under sized but the occasional keeper. King Mackerel are being caught between 10-15miles out but look for them to push in closer as the weather warms. Offshore Georgetown has reports of Mahi being everywhere along with great bottom fishing. Cobia are being caught near shore and offshore.
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ell the Summer heat is on and the fish inshore are getting harder to find.? Don’t give up so fast as there are more fish now than you can imagine. Flounder and a few other species are beginning to slowly move out of the inshore when the water temperature warms above 80 degrees, but a world of other fish is just beginning to fill the inshore waters in substantial numbers. When the temperatures rise and waters warm, all the bait fish that have been scarce during cooler weather start to come in shore and the fish that prey on them follow. Fish like speckled trout that really like finger mullet and shrimp. These fish are also known as winter trout but believe me they are in shore in the summer in good numbers if you can find the school. I have literally anchored my boat in one position and caught these fish one after another as fast as I can get them in and get another bait out. They are fun to catch and put up quite a fight. Another good fish to target now is sheep head around the jetties and around other structure. Black drum are also in along with red drum and plenty of blue fish. The best way to catch these and all fish for that matter is to figure out what type area they like whether it is deep holes, structure, or open water and then present them with their favorite food. Speckled trout like to hang around drop offs and deep running holes and prefer finger mullet and live shrimp. Artificial lures that resemble these baits work well at times but to really get them biting, I prefer a live shrimp fished under a slip float. They can hardly resist this temptation if you find a good school of fish. Black drum seems to prefer a deep hole with a shell bank nearby. Try using a live shrimp or dead shrimp fished on or near the bottom. These
fish are terrific fighters and are quite a challenge for light tackle. Blue fish are abundant all over the inshore waters during Summer to late fall. They will bite just about anything that moves or any cut bait. They seem to like a quick jerk motion when fishing for them with artificial lures. Be careful of the razor-sharp teeth when getting one off a hook. I’ve been bitten more than once when handling them no matter how careful I try to be. Red drum are usually found all around. I’ve caught them anywhere from a deep run to a foot of water. A live finger mullet will work well of a live shrimp. They can also be caught using cut mullet. They are primarily bottom feeders but are also able to be caught on top water lures at times. They can be seen at high tide foraging in the grass. Catching sheep head is a hard one for me to master. To catch them you will need to get around rocks or pilings and present a barnacle or fiddler crab. The weight needs to be as light as you can possibly t by with and the bite is almost impossible to detect. These fish will rush the barnacle or crab in their mouth and spit the shell back out without you even feeling the slightest tug. The best thing to do is watch your line for a slight difference in tightness and set the hook immediately. Good luck with these bait stealers. There are also all the other small bait stealers out there now such as the ever-present pin fish and lizard fish and puffer fish, Croker, whiting, and don’t forget the occasional sting ray. most of these fish will prey on shrimp whether it is dead or alive. Get out and take plenty of cold drinks and bait and see what you might catch. See you on the water.
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FLOUNDERING AROUND THE CREEKS
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ummer is here! With it comes mullet, shrimp and but what else….Summer Flounder. The flatfish has been a favorite of mine since I was introduced to them over 40 years ago. My parents were avid outdoor folks. Found memories include riding in the back of my dad’s Willy’s jeep with a dead fox on the floor board and looking for mushrooms, as dad would say it. However, my favorite memory till this day still was our yearly family pilgrimage to Ocean City, MD for flounder. I can remember standing side by side on a rickety old railroad bridge that stuck out in The Isle of Wright Bay just north of the Rt. 50 bridge as we watched every year as two older guys would take doormat after doormat (that’s big flounder) off the little fishing pier as we caught your average keepers. After many years, the gentleman befriended my family and shared with us some of their secrets to catching the big elusive flatfish. It wasn’t long before we too were catching doormats. Fast forward those forty years and I am still pursuing those elusive doormats. Although, here
in waters around Myrtle Beach I don’t see those 8-10 pounders, but there are still a lot of quality fish. As the summer gets underway and you spend any time on the inlets of Cherry Grove, Murrells Inlet or Pawley’s Island you will see the pressure by the local fisherman as well at the tourist. The flounder have seen it all from live bait to your favorite go to artificial and can be hard to catch. However, I believe those pressured fish can be caught but only on their own terms and turf or should I say secluded creek. With the use of our kayaks, we can access those fish that boaters cannot. If you spend the time studying and reading the salt marsh you can find those secluded areas that hold fish. A saltmarsh is made up of a few major creek channels, secondary creek channels and those that look like a trickle. I like to study the salt marsh with google earth before heading out and while on the water. I do this for two purposes. First is to learn where I might think the fish will hold and two, so I don’t get lost when the tide drops out. If you are in the wrong channel at the tail end of the tide, your walking!
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However, if you will want to see the channels and holes first hand, paddle back into the marsh and wait for the tide to drop out and leave you high and dry. Then, take a walk with your GPS and locate those secluded out of the way holes and long channels in the primary and secondary creeks. This is a great opportunity to see the lay of the bottom. I search for holes at the mouth of the creek intersections, long holes along the outside of a bend in the channel and finally, the tell-tale sign… the flounders foot print. Flounder are ambush predators. They bury themselves under a thin layer of sand to hide. This leaves a depression. Once they move out, that depression becomes obvious as the current sweeps over it and scours it out. This leaves a crater like depression on the bottom. Crabs and skates bury as well but with a little practice you can decipher the difference. Now armed with a little knowledge of where I want to fish, the question is when to fish it. I like to fish the out going tide. I will paddle far into the secondary creek beds as I can. I locate those smaller creek mouths. Just like opening a drain plug, the tide will start to flush out all the bait and the flounder will be waiting. I position my kayak just upstream of those intersections or holes. I will present my bait, usually a mud minnow or shrimp on a light hair jig, as natural as possible into
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the upstream side of the intersection and let it settle into the hole. If I don’t get a strike in a few cast, I move downstream to the next area. I stop just upstream of the next hole or intersection and repeat. This is where a stake out pole pushed through your scupper hole works like a dream. It can hold you in one spot, so you don’t drift over the good area and spook the fish. I will do this all the way out to the main channel. You are always following the fish. As the tide goes out, they will settle into the next hole. Keep in mind, you got to keep moving or you will be left high and dry. Once the tide starts falling, those skinny areas of water will dump out quickly. So, the next time you find yourself amongst the crowded flotilla of boats in the main channel, take that skinny water kayak of yours and head into that salt marsh creek and do some scouting. Again, know your route and watch the tides so you don’t get stuck high and dry. If you are willing to take the gamble, the rewards will be there in the way of flounder or even a nice redfish or two. Keep those paddles wet and Fish on!
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ingfish might be the most explosive-biting fish in the Gulf of Mexico. We often see them skyrocketing a surface bait and jumping 8 feet into the air. They’ll hit live bait doing 30 mph, and all you’ll hear is a screaming reel. Kings in the 40- to 50-pound class are common here off Franklin County, Fla, with many 20- to 30-pounders mixed in. The state record is 90 pounds. It was caught off Key West in 1975. Kingfish might be in a school of hundreds, or a solitary big one might cruise the reefs and wrecks like a lone wolf. There are many ways to fish kings, but live bait can be a sure thing. Trolling dusters with a cigar minnow in tow has been a standard in the northern Gulf ever since powerboats have plied these waters. The old guys used drone spoons with long wire leaders to defeat the sharp array of teeth that can instantly cut a leader off. Light tackle is the way most Franklin County anglers fish kings today, and it gives quite an experience to the angler who has never hooked one of these torpedoes. They will hit jigs tipped with bait, trolled plugs and even take a grouper bait off the bottom. The food value of kingfish is very good, depending on how you prepare and cook them. Being high in omega 3 oils, they don’t freeze well if they are not precooked. Fresh fillets broiled or fried are hard to beat, and you don’t have to get fancy with the seasoning. Make sure to remove the dark bloodline from any part of the fillet, since it offers too strong of a taste for some. Kings in the 15-pound class are fantastic on the grill, and slicing the fish into steaks with a drenching of Italian salad dressing makes a nice presentation. If you have a smoker, this opens up another great way to do kings. Cut fillets into manageable pieces and smoke them for 6 to 8 hours with a dusting of seasoning. Kingfish makes a superb fish dip, and it is great for parties. Kings are abundant in our waters, so get out there and catch some. This Aug. 4-5, C-quarters Marina in Carrabelle, Fla. will hold the 15th annual Kingfish Shootout. To date, this event has raised $915,000 to fight leukemia, and this year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever with more than $20,000 in prize money! Come help raise money for the Leukemia Research Foundation, experience the beauty of the Forgotten Coast, and enjoy the sounds of screaming drags. For a complete list of rentals, charters, supplies and more visit www.floridasforgottencoast.com.
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t all started for me when I began focusing on the big bull reds that prowl the waters around the St. Andrews Pass and the bridges in Panama City, Fla. I knew many of them lurked in those deep waters, and using live bait was usually a sure bet, but I get such a kick out of fooling fish with artificial lures that I had to explore the world of deep jigs like the Shimano Butterfly jig and the Offshore Angler Freestyle jig. When attempting to fool fish holding in water 50 to 100 feet deep, or more, you need a lure that gets down in a hurry. Not many tools can fill this niche, but these heavy, lead, streamlined jigs with the cool paint jobs come through in spades. Equipped with one or two hooks on a short tether, these jigs produce a wild, erratic fluttering on the fall, and when worked correctly, produce an enticing jumping action when ripped up off the bottom with the rod. The action is similar to a spoon more than a conventional jig, and fish of all species fall for it. It’s crucial to team your jig up with a properly rated rod. Deep jigging rods are usually short and work very well, but many rod types will get the job done. Spinning reels work fine, but I’ve found reels built for bottom fishing, like the Shimano Torium, to be my favorite. They’re smooth and fast, perfect for this technique. Spool up with 50• Safer to 80-pound test braid and a shock • Easier leader made of • Better 30- to 60-pound monofilament or fluorocarbon. Typically this is a vertical presentation with your boat positioned right on top of your target. Casting the jig, however, can be a very effective way of targeting fish that may be suspended somewhere in the water column and away from the boat. You can cover a lot of water using these jigs as a searchbait. Cast or drop the jig and let it settle to the bottom.
Then begin pumping it back to the boat. Work it with hard jerks several feet off the bottom, and let it settle on a semi slack line. Usually, a hard jerk works best. This triggers a strike without giving the fish time to think about what it’s looking at. You will feel the strike, and it will likely be on the fall, so hold on! I once had a large fish rip a rod right out of my hand. Down it went, the whole rig. That was a learning moment! Adjust your drag properly. I have experienced several days, both nearshore and offshore, when I caught fish about four to one against my partners using live bait. This is due to the bait’s ability to cover a lot of water in a short time with extremely effective results. I’ve caught reds, grouper, bonito, snapper, Spanish and king mackerel, trout, amberjacks, mahi and more using these jigs. It is an extremely exciting and productive fishing technique; give it a try! Randy “C-Note” Cnota is co-publisher of the Panama City/Forgotten Coast edition of Coastal Angler Magazine and owner of C-note Charters in Panama City, Fla. Check him out at cnotecharters.com.
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For a limited time, get Suzuki Extended Protection, Instant Savings and attractive financing on select Suzuki outboards from 25 to 350 horspower. See your participapting Suzuki Marine dealer for details or visit www.suzukimarine.com.
REPOWER FINANCE Six Years of Protection at no extra charge on all new outboards 25 to 350 HP.
Instant Savings of up to $800 on select models. See your dealer for details.
Rates as low as 5.99% on new Suzuki outboard on approved credit.*
Gimme Six Extended Protection promo is applicable to new Suzuki Outboard Motors from 25 to 350 HP in inventory which are sold and delivered to buyer between 04/01/18 and 06/30/18 in accordance with the promotion by a Participating Authorized Suzuki Marine dealer in the continental US and Alaska to a purchasing customer who resides in the continental US or Alaska. Customer should expect to receive an acknowledgement letter and full copy of contract including terms, conditions and wallet card from Suzuki Extended Protection within 90 days of purchase. If an acknowledgement letter is not received in time period stated, contact Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. – Marine Marketing via email: marinepromo@suz.com. The Gimme Six Promotion is available for pleasure use only, and is not redeemable for cash. Instant Savings apply to qualifying purchases of select Suzuki Outboard Motors made between 04/01/18 and 06/30/18. For list of designated models, see participating Dealer or visit www.suzukimarine.com. Customer and participating Dealer must fill out the appropriate form at time of sale. Instant Savings will be applied against the original dealer invoice (Suzuki will credit Dealer parts account). There are no model substitutions, benefit substitutions, rain checks, or extensions. Suzuki reserves the right to change or cancel these promotions at any time without notice or obligation. * Financing offers available through Synchrony Retail Finance. As low as 5.99% APR financing for 60 months on new and unregistered Suzuki Outboard Motors. Subject to credit approval. Not all buyers will qualify. Approval, and any rates and terms provided, are based on credit worthiness. $19.99/month per $1,000 financed for 60 months is based on 5.99% APR. Hypothetical figures used in calculation; your actual monthly payment may differ based on financing terms, credit tier qualification, accessories or other factors such as down payment and fees. Offer effective on new, unregistered Suzuki Outboard Motors purchased from a participating authorized Suzuki dealer between 04/01/18 and 06/30/18. “Gimme Six”, the Suzuki “S” and model names are Suzuki trademarks or ®. Don’t drink and drive. Always wear a USCG-approved life jacket and read your owner’s manual. © 2018 Suzuki Motor of America, Inc.
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