Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Myrtle Beach, 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 is a bit of a boat ride from the shores of Myrtle Beach, so plan on doing a full day, 10 to 12 hour fishing trip if you want to fish for mahi mahi, billfish, tuna or wahoo here. There are plenty of fishing charters that will go out and fish the gulf stream for pelagic species of fish here, so you can definitely go out and target them if you want.
Bottom Fishing
Reefs & Wrecks
For most anglers going on an offshore fishing trip here, they will be bottom fishing the reefs and wrecks. There plenty of offshore structure in the offshore waters near Myrtle Beach, SC. There are many fishing charters that will fish the offshore waters here as well, so you should be able to find a charter. 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/
