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I recently took a trip to South Carolina for my honeymoon. Fortunately, I married a girl that doesn't mind hanging out at the beach, fishing, and kayaking so that's what we planned our honeymoon location around. We rented a house on Edingsville Beach outside Edisto Beach on Edisto Island. One of those gated places that only has beach access for those living there. I figured I'd see what the other side looked like for once.... not bad! It was like staying on one of the VBI's and being able to bike 5 minutes to the beach and also had a nice dock behind the house we could launch from and follow the creek out to the ocean. The beach was also excellent for finding shark teeth and fossilized bones, mammal teeth, and turtle shell parts. We came home with a ton of fossils.
I didn't get to do as much kayak fishing as I was hoping, but the creeks around the house weren't too exciting anyway. Good for crabbing, clamming, and netting mullet with a flounder here and there mixed in. It's hard to lag behind fishing when she wants to cover water and sight see. We did go to some more open water to paddle one day and I tried some trolling, but again didn't get to try very hard as she wanted to paddle and explore. So I compromised and concentrated on some surf fishing while we lounged around on the beach. I wasn't at all disappointed with that decision as we got into some decent red action and bulls were game to play! I only brought one heaver down with me and we still managed 9 of them over a couple hours fishing over 3 days. One around 35" and the rest between 40" - 46". Not the biggest, but it was still good to say I got a bull in the surf this year! Especially since it looks like Assateague MD or VA won't be opening back up before the fall bull bite there dwindles. Plenty of pups too, but smaller ones. Averaged maybe 15" or so. A couple pup blackies and some specs as well. We were able to keep the sharks and rays away until our last fishing attempt when we were bit off 3 times including a drag burner that made a HUGE splash on top that I would of liked to have seen a glimpse of. Ended up finally landing a 4.5' sandbar shark and than a couple roughtail rays.
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I didn't get to do as much kayak fishing as I was hoping, but the creeks around the house weren't too exciting anyway. Good for crabbing, clamming, and netting mullet with a flounder here and there mixed in. It's hard to lag behind fishing when she wants to cover water and sight see. We did go to some more open water to paddle one day and I tried some trolling, but again didn't get to try very hard as she wanted to paddle and explore. So I compromised and concentrated on some surf fishing while we lounged around on the beach. I wasn't at all disappointed with that decision as we got into some decent red action and bulls were game to play! I only brought one heaver down with me and we still managed 9 of them over a couple hours fishing over 3 days. One around 35" and the rest between 40" - 46". Not the biggest, but it was still good to say I got a bull in the surf this year! Especially since it looks like Assateague MD or VA won't be opening back up before the fall bull bite there dwindles. Plenty of pups too, but smaller ones. Averaged maybe 15" or so. A couple pup blackies and some specs as well. We were able to keep the sharks and rays away until our last fishing attempt when we were bit off 3 times including a drag burner that made a HUGE splash on top that I would of liked to have seen a glimpse of. Ended up finally landing a 4.5' sandbar shark and than a couple roughtail rays.
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