Historic Georgetown: Where 5 River flow into the Atlantic…
Sometime during the summer Danny and I decided to plan a red fishing trip to the South Carolina coast. The coast is famous for large bull redfish. We checked out guide services from below Charleston to Myrtle Beach. Georgetown is touted as a ‘hot spot’ for bull redfish. The best time of the years for ‘bull reds’ begins in October. I checked the solar lunar tables and decided that the first weekend in October would be prime time for our trip.
The girls were lured into our plan with the promise of ‘a quaint historic town with excellent shopping.’ Pawley Island was just over the bridge with more ‘hot shopping sites.’ So everybody was on board…
Then just before the trip happened two events threatened the trip. First, hurricane Florence came into the coast of the Carolinas flooding most of the rivers and some of the towns. Fortunately most of the flooding had flowed into the Atlantic by the time the weekend came. The only issue with the flooding was that most of the fish were forced into the ocean by the outflow of ‘fresh water.’ Second, Jan was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma about two weeks prior to the adventure. Her treatment, immunotherapy, was to begin the week after the trip. So the excursion became a pleasant adventure before that began!
Papa’s previous ‘largest redfish’…
This was a 36″ redfish caught a few years ago with Captain Rick Muldrow. This was out of Yankeetown Florida in the Gulf of Mexico…