Fairly shallow, fishing under trees, fucker jumped into the low hanging branches but we win Scale was too far away. Bigger than yesterday IMO
Been working my ass off to get everything ready for a big tuna trip this weekend on the 6th. Had the transom rod rack installed with vlocks. Now the bent butts can face backwards out the back of the boat and not be in the way. Got the engines tuned from 250 to 332. My transducer wasn't set up properly where you could do High Chirp/200hz Low Chirp/50hz. Got that fixed. Trailer lights fixed , half of them had suddenly stopped working. Nav light that pops up from the ttop was bent , got a new one installed. Picked the boat up yesterday afternoon, spent 5 hours cleaning it /getting rods ready/getting everything prepped for a snapper trip this morning which was a warm up for the bigger trip on Saturday. Woke up at 3AM and the radar was showing strong rain and storms all over the gulf where we run. Canceled the trip. Hoping for better weather on Saturday.
I'm in Greenville SC area. My 14 year old is really into fishing. We only fish from the shore and no boat. Any recommendations on decent places to visit? I don't mind going on small road trips to fish either so western NC areas wouldn't be out of the question just to get out and see different places. We go to Lake Hartwell State Park, Sadlers Creek State Park, Calhoun Falls SP, and Hickory Knob SP regularly. We also have a friend with a farm pond in Spartanburg County that we do the best at but it's smaller stuff.
What are you wanting to fish for? This shows locations on the Saluda for trout. https://www.dnr.sc.gov/fish/pdf/TroutBook.pdf
I focus on rivers, so i dont know the lakes well. I know the broad river has smallmouth. And the redeye bass in the Savannah River drainage like the Eastatoe, Chauga, and Chattooga.
there are some 4 small lakes here that fish pretty well and have lots of bank access, https://maps.app.goo.gl/o46xzvLKx5JucVvL7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy nearby is Thicketty Lake, Lake Johnson, John D. Long. Berry’s Pond has some spots. I don’t know the public fishing in Greenville much, the Ware Shoals area of the Saluda has the most public access that i know of. nearby Clemson is Issaqueena Lake, we used to go there when mine were young.
You can see where we got the tuna to chase our live baits. But was not able to land a tuna on my boat today. I did land my first ever scamp and he was a stud. Ran 229 miles round trip today. It was crazy being out in neon blue water at a oil platform in 3000 feet 110 miles offshore. Boat did great
Bushwacked down a mountain through blackberries. The only good thing about bushwacking through blackberries is the snacking along the way, other than knowing that you're in an area that doesn't get much traffic. This is an old Cherokee fish trap
About all I know is that it is the remains of an old fish trap built by the Cherokee. I guess technically it is believed to be one, but they don't know for sure. Definitely man made though. This is about what I found on it: The Fish Trap, about 100 yards downstream of Fishtrap Branch, is a long ridge of rocks in the river believed to be the remains of an ancient fish trap constructed by Indians.
Would love to know the full story just from a tactics standpoint. I have buddies I fish with who are like fish whisperers and could have shows on TV. I just enjoy being outside, in the water and vibing. Could go out by myself and get skunked, don’t care, where as some friends just analyze everything. I appreciate that, love to hear the theory and shit.
Hard to know for sure what it originally looked like. It's basically a constructed rock ledge that starts at the shore and curves around downstream. It looks like if used to be mostly closed off so I think it would have worked like other traps where there was a small entrance that they would have trouble finding to leave.
i always call them Weir dams. along coastal/tidal rivers they were used to trap whatever came in under high tide and then could be collected at low tide. during big migration events like for salmon, eel, striper, or shad you could really clean up. i remember reading an article in Field and Stream as a teenager. i have also been told by rangers that some of the rock piles were made for mills and people mining the area. Usually those cut straight across the river, and don’t create a pinch point.
Wife and kids are gone so I stopped by a small stream on the way home yesterday to try and find another small stream with Bartram's Bass. Then went and tried another stream but it was pretty silted and only found small brim
I dropped a shakeyhead into a brush pile and immediately got my rod bent over but ended up with no worm and my hook in a tree branch when I got it pulled up. gunna need a 4 or 5am wake up tomorrow and a gallon of bug spray. We coming.
With baby gump coming in October 2024, Mrs. Gump said no more offshore trips after August. I'm fishing the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo on my friends 27 foot cat boat last weekend of July. Then I'm going all in on an offshore trip on my boat August 10. I want to be on the water at 4:30AM and I don't want to be back at the dock until sunset at 8PM. I want to go to the shelf about 80 miles out and deep drop in 400-600 feet of water. I want to catch scamp grouper, yellowedge grouper, snowy grouper, beeliner, queen snapper, and anything else I can catch out there. Then I will be out of the game from Sept-through sometime in December. When I come back it will be lump season and yellowfin will be chasing pogey balls at the salt domes. I love how this sport is year round. This shit never gets old. Here’s a video from Horn Island today. I couldn’t fish this weekend since I did the big trip last weekend. Still awesome to get out on the water. Water temp was 89-90 today by the way. Gross.
There is a state park near my lake house in Alabama that's supposed to have some amazing trails and waterfalls. I'm not a big outdoors guy but your pictures make me want to go explore.
Couldn't travel far for work, so tried a few more small streams for redeye bass. First one was a bust Second one was promising and had a chase, but no hookups So I went farther up the 2nd stream and had success Also, TU and the local fly shop have started doing fly tying nights at a local bar. Did this the night before and used some of them when fishing.
Funshot Residue are y'all getting rain up there? Supposed to be in the area in a few weeks and expect to not get to fish unless Shenandoah gets a lot of rain and reopens.
We've gotten 3/4" in the last 3 days. Coming week looks promising for some help. All that being said, I'd be surprised if they reopened in the park until fall. Just a hunch, and for your sake I hope I'm wrong.