Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Georgetown, SC area.
Fishing for Pelagic Fish
What are Pelagic Fish?
Pelagic fish get their name from the area that they inhabit called the pelagic zone. The pelagic zone is the largest habitat on earth with a volume of 330 million cubic miles. Different species of pelagic fish are found throughout this zone. Numbers and distributions vary regionally and vertically, depending on availability of light, nutrients, dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, and pressure.
The gulf stream waters are around 60 miles or more off of Georgetown, SC, so anglers have a long boat ride out to the gulf stream current that will hold mahi mahi, tuna, billfish and wahoo. Some charters will target them in this area, but you’re looking at doing a full day trip consisting of 10 to 12 hours or more.
Bottom Fishing
Reefs & Wrecks
There plenty of offshore structure in the offshore waters near Georgetown, SC. There are many fishing charters that will fish the offshore waters here. You may be going anywhere from 10 to 20 miles out and possibly further to fish these offshore structures. Some of the types of fish you may be targeting on the reefs and wrecks are snapper, grouper, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, amberjack, cobia, sharks, hogfish, tripletail, jack crevalle, barracuda and more.
Artificial Reef Locations
https://www.dnr.sc.gov/artificialreefs/
