Dog days are here, for all intent and purposes, but charter captains along the South Carolina coast can still make a day of it – if they keep an open mind.
Terry Coffey of Renegade Charters in Little River said that a successful day on the water is just a matter of taking what’s available – whether it’s Spanish mackerel, king mackerel or cobia inshore and wahoo or dolphin offshore.
“Our inshore fishing for Spanish has been up and down, but we’re picking up some cobia when we drift over the inshore live bottoms and coral reefs,” said Coffey (843-280-8954). “We’re drifting anywhere between 30 and 60 feet of water and finding fish.”
Coffey said that small king mackerel have been mixed in with the Spanish, but most haven’t been keeper size.
Offshore, out along the 30-fathom break, wahoo fishing is starting to pick up as dolphin become more and more scattered. “There have been a few dolphin, but there’s been good wahoo fishing out there,” he said.
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