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i s hi ng F By Larry Chesney B Fishing from one of that frees up your hands for casting eing a South Carolina native, while your legs do the heavy lifting. I've never resided far from Hobie's kayaks can be a Carter and I spent a comfortably saltwater. That's provided fun and effective way to chilly afternoon coursing creeks and beaucoup opportunities to fish for my locate and stalk tailing mud flats in search of tailing fish and favorite sea dweller, the red drum. reds, even in the nervous water. As the tide slipped out I've also been able to try a number of shallowest waters. and then back in, we covered water of angling methods for spottails – plunking varying depths from a few feet mullet out at the Charleston to a few inches, using all three jetties, slinging flies, grubs and means of propulsion. A couple of topwater plugs from small flats flats boats sat a quarter-mile out boats in the tidal creeks, or simply from the oyster beds where we standing on the beach with cut were cruising, unable to get back shrimp and a surf rod. to the grass where the reds fed But until this winter I'd and hid from ravenous dolphins. never fished for channel bass, or While the fishing was a bit anything else for that matter, from slow, and we spent a few minutes a kayak. So when I had the chance stuck in the muck at dead low to join guide Justin Carter for tide, the kayak experience an afternoon of cruising around was an enjoyable one. To slip the oyster beds off Awendaw just along so quietly, leaving little north of Charleston, I jumped on more than a riffle for a wake, it like a big red on a fiddler crab. is akin to still-hunting for deer My host was a local guide who with a bow. You become a is one hundred percent kayak. natural part of the scene and No gas engines for this guy. not so much an intruder. Not even a little electric motor. For Justin, the fact that he's But these kayaks aren't just in Charleston allows him to the traditional garden-variety take his kayaks out year-round. paddling kind. Carter's Hobie ishing from a kayak enables you to reach shallow, tuckedWhether he's after reds, trout, Pro Anglers are ideal for poling, away backwaters where the big reds are feeding. flounder or bonnet-head and they have a pedal system F S P O R T I N G C 186 L A S S I C S