8/20 - 8/21 Murrell's Inlet Report

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8/20 - hopped on board with a new friend on his 26' sea pro cc and headed out 50 miles for trolling/bottom fishing. Left the hill at about 4:30 am and was on location probably 30 min. before the sun came up so we started out bottom fishing. Got a few keeper beeliners in the box before sun up and then broke out the trolling gear. Trolled for 2 hours going 1 for 2 on the knockdowns with just a stinky cuda to show for it. Switched over to bottom again and had to work for it hitting around 8 or so spots to top off the box with 3 man limits of black sea bass and beeliners with a silver snapper and grunt thrown in. Worked our arses off for it but FUN!
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Sunday 8/21 - boat in at 10 am took the wife and kids fishing inshore on the V21. Hit the first spot 50 yards from the boat ramp. Fished for about 1 hr on the hook and caught one 13.5" flounder. Booze cruised for an hour after that looking at all the million dollar houses then hit my go-to spot picking up two 14" reds. Next, zipped back out the the ocean and deployed the #1 and #2 planers with clarkspoons for spanish but no takers. Pulled lines in and took the kids on a joyride over the swells out to the 3 mile reef. They screamed like girls....oh wait...they are girls. Boat out at 2:30 pm to pack up and head home.
 
Yep, only 5 BSB per person and 5 b-liners per person for us too. Threw back a lot of 13 - 13.5 inch keeper BSB and b-liners since we were catching bigger ones. Tried briefly for a grouper until something toothy broke me off and I gave up. Saw a HUGE cuda that my buddy thought was a cobia. Biggest cuda I've ever seen. Did not try for kings this trip.
 
I dont know blue....a little dissapointed on your fishing report...your reports usually read like a good book! A nice intro setting up the trip.....building suspense as the trip goes on and then a good finish........lets try a little better next time will ya?
 
Point taken. Will spice it up a little more next time. :beer:
That was the only picture I had. Should've taken more but the captain is a young USAF guy and I had a white knuckle deathgrip on the t-top supports a lot of the time. Half way out running in the dark when Top Gun theme song came on......I knew it was gonna be trouble....and it was!!!!
 
Blue_Runner said:
Yep, only 5 BSB per person and 5 b-liners per person for us too. Threw back a lot of 13 - 13.5 inch keeper BSB and b-liners since we were catching bigger ones. Tried briefly for a grouper until something toothy broke me off and I gave up. Saw a HUGE cuda that my buddy thought was a cobia. Biggest cuda I've ever seen. Did not try for kings this trip.
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I was gonna say those BSBs looked pretty healthy... especially the one bottom left. Good eatin' right there. Nice weekend!
 
Nice goin on the Seabass. I had to learn the hard way to stay away from those "two-speed" captains. A badly bruised tailbone and no dookie for 10 days will teach you well!!!!!

I was gonna say your silver snapper is actually a Pink Porgy but I see now where they are one in the same. Guess it depends on geo. location as to what you call it though it is a porgy and not a snapper.....Very good eatin none the less!!!!!
 
Right on about the Red/Pink Porgy vs. Silver Snapper. I'm just getting into this bottom fishing thing so I've been trying to do my homework on species id and bag limits. Last thing you want to do is keep something illegal, one too many or one too small! The Red Porgy looks a lot like a sheepshead to me, which is also a porgy.

Seabass were all 14" + up to 17" or 18" I'm guessing. Did not measure the big ones. Smallest beeliners were 13.5". We were trying to keep 14" and up on both. Wish we could've caught some triggers. Never had any.
 
We get triggers on natural bottom, not usually on wrecks, between 80 and 110 feet deep. Very easy to catch once you get on them. They'll bite anything.
 
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