When you can knock out three dozen speckled trout, during dog days, on the wrong tide, you’ve had a heckuva day.
At least that’s how guide Tom Siwarski of Carolina Marine Aero Adventures feels about his trip to Bulls Bay this past Wednesday.
“We caught probably 35 trout, all of them on artificials, with the biggest ones probably around 19 inches long,” said Siwarski (843-327-3434). “We fished from three hours before low tide all through way through the bottom, which is not ideal, but we made the best of it.”
Siwarski normally likes the high end of the tide cycle when fishing for specks, but he blistered them nonetheless on the low side on Thursday with a DOA shrimp suspended under a popping cork.
“We only fished two places. One was a bank that holds fish anytime – no matter what tide,” Siwarski said. “When the tide’s up, they’re close to the grass, but when it falls out, they just back off. We probably caught them in 4-1/2 to five feet of water, 30 to 40 feet off the bank.
“The other place was a creek mouth with oyster points on both sides. When the tide’s up, then hang out on both points. I figured they’d back off toward the middle of the creek, where it drops off into the channel. I thought we’d have to hunt for ‘em, but both of my guys had hits on their first drops, so it was on.”
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