Even though the bite was slow, these few did their best to see that I had a good time. Had to switch to a little heavier jig head and fish a little deeper to find 'em.
We’ve brought it up before and now you saying you are having to fish deeper… You are a brave man wade fishing this time of year with all that shark chum in the water!
My personal best is only 7 lbs. 4 oz. Last February, I went and waded Baffin Bay on the Texas coast, because Texas is known for big trout. It a day and a half, I caught 34, but no trophy. I threw all 34 back. I did have 5 around 22", but I was hoping for an 8 or 9 pounder. Maybe I’ll go back.
I have a buddy who recently built a house in McClellanville and he’s been asking me to come trout fish with him. He’s been catching a BUNCH of trout in that area, but no real big ones. I may go there this week while I wait for things to settle down around Venice. I hope my camp is still there next week.
What a beautiful healthy looking string of fish. They look like they are cloned. Did you make the stringer and what does the carving on the end float represent?
Bull shark grabs that string…be too full to eat you. What a life. Way to live it…large.
Thank you! I did NOT make the stringer. I get quite a bit of my wading gear from Everlast. That’s a symbol of theirs etched into the float.
Bull sharks are a nuisance this time of the year. I’ve had 'em take trout right off my stringer before, and I didn’t realize what was happening. I’ve had sharks take trout and ladyfish off my line while I was trying to land them.
If your specifically going for big trout you don’t catch numbers. I can trout fish and catch like 20 to 100 depending how long the trip is and how long I want to play with little guys. The same areas I can go for big fish a and catch like 3 to 10. The inlets hold the biggest wild trout around in Charleston, you can catch them from 23 to 28, a buddys girlfriend caught a 32 a few years back, he was fishing for 2 years in that area because of big fish action and lost a few giants but he got a 27 and thought it was huge and at the same time his girl caught the 32. He said his first thought was if I was fishing solo today I’d of got that 32. But there are some studs in the landlocked ponds that don’t get fished, but we don’t count those the same