Given that it’s almost February, Capt. Todd Stamps of MyFish.com in Charleston is pretty happy with the redfish action he’s seeing.
Over the past week, when he’s gotten out without the wind blowing a gale, he’s had some great days – 15 or 16 fish per trip.
“It really got nice in there a few days last week,” said Stamps (803-212-8224). “I’ve been fishing cut mullet heads on jigs, and they can’t pass up that old, nasty mullet.”
Northeast winds have made the fishing tough on certain days; when the winds calm, however, he’s worked on the reds along the Intracoastal Waterway from just north of Charleston all the way to McClellanville.
“I fished three spots last Thursday, and without a shadow of doubt, there were well over 500 fish on those spots,” he said. “The trick is getting two on at the same time, because if you cast in there and one hits, he’s gonna spook the rest of the school. So you get two baits out there, right next to each other, and when the school comes by, you’re going to get two hookups.”
After catching a couple of fish from one school, it’s time to go hunting another, then another – making a milk run to spots that reds have been using, trying to catch two out of every school.
“One thing that has happened that’s been different is, on some of the negative, super-low tides we’ve had, I’ve found them off the bank farther,” Stamps said. “They’re almost on the edge of the waterway ditch, right where it drops off into the dredged part.”
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