Low Country Vacation

Had an awesome week fishing in Charleston with Capt Ren. We caught quite a few redfish, trout and flounder. Several reds were over slot but tons of fun! The tides were not the best for that area so we did a lot fishing in the short grass for tailing redfish. I had never pitched a bait to a tailing red so i was very excited when I had the opportunity to do so. Rennie caught a few then I took a shot at it and threw it right in front of a 22" red and he couldn't resist it. That was the most exciting type of fishing to date. We moved around to different spots in search of perfect tournament winners. We found new schools and dud quite a bit of catching. Getting hung up on oysters became a bit of a joke after I hooked a rather large redfish and thought I was just hung again on an oyster. Once it started taking drag Rennie was more than happy to point out the fact that I wasn't having a very smart moment and informed me that yes,I was hung, but I was hung on a fish. He joked about my "oyster hang up" the all week. I also later managed to get "hung" on a 3' bonnet head shark. I was pretty excited about the shark but Rennie wasn't too thrilled. We fished all week preparing for a tournament that we ended up not fishing. We were unaware of a rule stating we had to be off the water by 4:00 the day before the tournament. We were told about this at 4:15 so once we got to the captain's meeting we informed the tournament director that we had broken the rule and let him make the decision to disqualify us or not. His decision was to disqualify us, which we thought was fair because a rule is a rule. I was devastated because I was looking forward to showing a group of boys how it was done. Needless to say, I don't think we'll forget to read the rules before any other tournaments. All in all we had a great time aside from the major buzz kill of not being able to fish the tournament. We'll get them next time - Shannon