12-04-2001, 12:21 AM
South Carolina Weekly Shallow Saltwater Fishing Report<br>Week of 11-25-01 through 12-01-01<br><br>Five trips this week produced some pretty good catches of reds and trout. Lin, our resident trout specialist, had a good trip on them a few days ago. He had 18 trout and 6 reds for the day. That is one of the best trout days any of us have had in quite a while. Like him, I think the fact that there are so few shrimp here, is one of the reasons there are so few trout around. In past years, when the shrimp were in short supply, the trout seemed to be also. I guess they are in the ocean, chasing glass minnows or some such. Tommy had a couple of days with a fly rodder. The wind kept them pinned down until late, on the first day, and then it let up a bit. They had caught several nice reds on cut bait and when the wind dropped, the client loaded the fly rod and managed to catch one nice red, on a “Copperhead” fly before it got really dark. For two days, my group never even took their fly rods out. We never could find a concentration of fish, only a single fish here and there. The water is getting back to a green color, the algae is growing again, and the clear water is not nearly as clear as it was a month ago. There are still some big fish here, in the grass, at high tide, and that is where we’ve been hunting them. Live or cut bait still seems to draw the most hits but a few are still caught on the spoons or jerk baits.<br><br>The totals for the week were: reds totaled 31 fish; trout totaled 23 , and flounder totaled 2 .<br><br>Thanks, Gene Dickson<br><br>Delta Guide Service http://www.deltaguideservice.com<br>Georgetown, SC<br>1-843-546-3645<br><br>Our new e-mail address is: Delta-Guide-Service@sc.rr.com<br><br>We are a saltwater fishing guide service located on the coast of South Carolina.