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Skiffs, kayaks and paddleboards in the fall marsh: redfish on the flooded grass, trout at their peak, South Carolina’s shrimp-baiting season, the new red drum limits, fishing with children, and where to launch.
In October and November the water in the salt marsh cools, and smooth cordgrass, the tall grass that covers the marsh, comes into flower. A small boat is all it takes to be out in it: a skiff run up a tidal creek from a public landing, a kayak or a paddleboard worked along the edge of the grass, a family on a public dock with a bucket of live shrimp. South Carolina's shrimp-baiting season puts boats on the rivers with poles and cast nets.
The fishing is at its best now too. In SC DNR's October fishing report, Charleston's inshore captains expected October to be the best fishing of the whole year, with redfish feeding on the flooded marsh, the trout bite at its peak for the year, and flounder in the creek mouths before they leave for the ocean.
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License prices, pier fishing, tackle and bait are covered in Saltwater fishing: licenses, piers, bait and tides.
Inshore fishing here is done from small boats. A skiff is a small, open boat with a flat deck and an outboard motor, built to run in shallow water. A microskiff is a smaller and lighter version, often pushed across the shallows with a long pole so the motor stays out of the mud. Both launch from the same public ramps as any trailered boat.
SC DNR requires a wearable, Coast Guard-approved life jacket aboard every vessel for each person, in the right size, within reach and in good condition, and South Carolina law requires children under 12 to wear one on any vessel under 16 feet long. Self-drive skiffs, kayaks and paddleboards: boat rentals.
A kayak or a paddleboard reaches creeks a skiff cannot and launches from a bank or a floating dock. Paddleboards and canoes, kayaks and other boats moved only by paddles or oars need no registration or title in South Carolina, according to SC DNR. The life jacket rules above apply on the water. The South Carolina section of the Southeast Coast Saltwater Paddling Trail runs 295 miles from the Savannah River at the Georgia line to Little River at the North Carolina line.
Launch sites with parking, restrooms and fees: kayak launches.
A child under 16 fishes without a license in South Carolina, according to SC DNR, and Georgia's free saltwater permit starts at 16 as well. SC DNR runs Family Fishing Clinics, which teach knots, rigging a rod and reel and casting before everyone tries fishing, for ages 4 through adult, and Youth Fishing Rodeos for ages 5 to 15, who bring their own tackle.
A pier or a public dock needs no boat, and the usual catch there is a spot, a croaker or a whiting. Free and fee piers on the coast, with fees and whether each one sells bait: fishing piers.
Redfish is the local name for red drum, a copper-colored fish with one or more black spots near the tail. Georgia DNR names fall as the best time to catch school-size red drum, the smaller fish that live in the creeks year round. Its usual rig is a float with live or dead shrimp or a small crab under it; fiddler crabs, finger mullet and mud minnows also work.
The fish move with the tide. Fiddler crabs, small marsh crabs that live in burrows in the mud, make up almost half the diet of a red drum seven to eleven inches long, according to SC DNR's red drum guide, and at high tide the redfish swim up into the flooded marsh grass to feed on them. Feeding head down in water that shallow, a redfish shows its tail above the surface, which anglers call tailing; North Carolina's fisheries division describes the fish with its head down in the grass and its tail in the air. The October report for Edisto expected the best tailing of the year, on redfish in the creeks and on the flats, the stretches of shallow mud and sand beside the marsh.
From a boat, the same SC DNR guide points to the hours around low tide, when the fish are crowded into the shallows of the creeks. Recognition, bait and a month-by-month calendar: redfish.
A bull red is a full-grown red drum. SC DNR puts adulthood at about 28 inches for males and 33 inches for females, and the adults spawn in late summer and fall near inlets and along the beaches of the barrier islands. Georgia DNR's method for them is fresh cut mullet or blue crab in heavy surf near the inlets, in spring and fall. Folly Beach Pier, in SC DNR's October fishing report, expected bull reds in full force off the pier.
A bull red is far longer than the legal size range in both states, so it goes back in the water. Since July 1, 2026, South Carolina law requires a non-offset, non-stainless steel circle hook, one with its point curved back toward the shank, when fishing for red drum and other saltwater game fish with natural bait on a hook of size 4/0 or larger.
Spotted seatrout, called speckled trout or plain trout on this coast, live in the estuaries year round. In fall, SC DNR says the younger fish move into larger creeks and deeper water, often in schools of fish the same size, and in winter they gather in deep channels and rivers. The October report for Edisto expected the trout fishing to peak for the year, with more fish over 14 inches, the minimum size in both states. Georgia DNR calls live shrimp the best bait all year, and from mid-November through March, as the water cools, artificial lures such as soft plastic grubs work as well and often better. Trout season by season: spotted seatrout.
Flounder lie flat on muddy creek bottoms and at creek mouths and move up the creeks on the rising tide, according to SC DNR. The older fish leave for the ocean as the water cools in late fall, spawn offshore through the winter and come back inshore in spring. The October reports for Georgetown and Edisto both expected some of the best flounder fishing of the year. More on flounder.
South Carolina cut its red drum limits on July 1, 2026, and Georgia cuts its own on January 1, 2027. A bag limit is the number of fish one angler may keep in a day. Every size here is total length, measured in a straight line from the closed mouth to the tip of the tail with the tail fin pinched together.
Sources: South Carolina's 2026–2027 finfish size and catch limits, which also bar the gig, a hand-held spear, for red drum and trout from December 1 to February 28; Act 231 of 2026 for the red drum change; and Georgia DNR's recreational limits. Georgia treats red drum as a game fish that may be caught with rod and reel only.
Shrimp baiting is how South Carolina catches fall white shrimp by the cooler-full. A boat sets a line of numbered poles in a creek or river, puts bait in the water beside each pole to draw the shrimp in, and comes back to throw a cast net, a round weighted net thrown by hand, over each spot. The fishery targets white shrimp, and SC DNR notes that by law the season lasts 60 days, opening at noon on the last Friday on or before September 15. The 2026 season runs from noon on September 11 to noon on November 9.
The rules, from South Carolina's shellfish and crustacean regulations:
Baiting for shrimp is illegal in Georgia, under Georgia DNR's shrimp rules. For cleaning the catch, the Lowcountry Magazine store carries the Toadfish Frogmore shrimp cleaner from Essentially Charleston in Mount Pleasant. More on the shrimp themselves: white shrimp.
The On the Water page lists every public boat ramp, pier and bank landing on the coast, nearest first, on a list or a map, with filters by county, by salt or fresh water and for a courtesy dock, a short dock beside the ramp for tying up while the trailer is parked. The same page carries a live tide chart from NOAA for six stations.
The fishing directory has a page for each place with photographs, parking, restrooms and fees:
The license. South Carolina's saltwater license and its shrimp-baiting license are sold at dnr.sc.gov/purchase.html. Georgia's fishing license is sold at GoOutdoorsGeorgia.com, with the free Saltwater Information Program permit on top for anyone fishing salt water.
The gear. A spinning rod and reel and a cast net cover most fall fishing. A shrimp-baiting outfit adds up to 10 poles no more than an inch across, reflective tape, the numbered tags that come with the license, bait, and a cast net with half-inch square mesh or larger. Coastal tackle shops sell all of it: bait and tackle shops.
A charter. A guided trip comes with a boat and a captain who fishes these waters for a living, and in South Carolina anglers aboard a hired charter boat need no license of their own. Captains, trip types and prices: fishing charters.