Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Hilton Head Island 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 is around 60 to 80 miles from shore in the Hilton Head Island area, so plan on doing a 10 to 12 hour fishing charter if you’re looking to go out and fish for mahi mahi, billfish, tuna and wahoo in this area. Many charters will go out and target these fish here.
Bottom Fishing
Reefs & Wrecks
There plenty of offshore structure in the offshore waters near Hilton Head Island. 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/
