11/16 - 11/17 2007 Murrell's Inlet SC Report

[Blue_Runner]

Day 1

Headed out to do some fishing. *The weather was kinda bad but manageable despite the ferocious 25 mph west wind that blew on us all day. *Inshore was flat with relatively NO chop becuase the wind had to blow over the land....but offshore a few miles you could see the lumpy horizon with the solid 3 - 4 rolling out there. *So we stayed in and hit a few spots. *


Day one was rather uneventful. *Only managed one undersized weakfish on bait, a micro flounder on a jig and a 1 lb whiting on bait.


Day 2

Woke to 36 degrees in the morning. *The forecast was calling for it to warm nicely and the breeze would not pick up until after lunch. *Decided to get bait at an AR 3 miles off. *While there fishing for pinfish we got into some bluefish action. *Got about 8 of those up to 2 lbs. *Put 2 smaller one in the livewell with the pins. *Then Cory got a nice hit on what we thought was a shark for the longest time, but turned out to be a nice 15 lb drum! *Revived and released.


Moving on out to a spot of live bottom 15 miles out the water temp at 59 degrees did not look good for king fishing but we tried anyways. * We drifted 2 live baits, one using a single bluefish and the other loaded with a double pinfish presentation. *Not a sniff. *But as we drifted we also bottom fished with cut bait, minnows and shrimp. *Did not get any keep BSB's but caught over 1 million. * ;D *Next thing you know Cory's rod goes down again. *This time we think it is a big shark. *Nope, just a 25 lb drum!

After things slowed down and the sharks got TOO active we decide to move on in to a spot of rocky shell bottom right off the beach. *

Go there and in one drift I caught 3 weakies on bait from 13 - 14 inches. *So we anchor in the spot where we caught and it was on a like a chicken bone from then on! *I broke out the light tackle and a little gold jig and wore em out! *My fishing buddies ended up asking if I had any more of those lures and I loaned them each one, which they used to put a few in the box as well *;) * All in all we caught I think around 13 or so keepers with as many or more that had to go back. *SC limit is 12" on weakies BTW. *The keepers went from 13 - 16 inches, so nothing real big but fun fun fun on light tackle.

While we were catching the weakies, a sudden change in wind direction came upon us. *This was about the exact time the weather man had predicted a shift and it kicked up some tight 2 - 3's right in our bow. *So we had to plow home about 8 miles at 12 - 13 mph. *The V did an outstanding job with very little banging. Trimmed up to keep the bow high and just taking it slow and steady right into the slop! I love my boat man!

So on Saturday night we had a nice fried bluefish and weakie dinner! * A great end to a fun trip.

How'd I do on the report RB? *This is what you asked for right? *;D