Flood tides
Sight-casting to redfish tailing in flooded grass. The signature trip, and the hardest to do well. It runs on a narrow window of tide and moon.
Where the creeks run out of names.
Guided fly and light tackle fishing in the back creeks and flooded grass of Charleston, South Carolina.
Water most boats never reach.
Charleston hides what makes it worth seeing. The postcard version is the harbor and the Battery. The real version is three miles back in a creek that only holds water for two hours on either side of high tide, where redfish push their backs out of the spartina and there is nobody else within sight of you.
That water takes years to learn. Where it holds fish, when the tide lets you in, and how to get back out before it drops. Captain Colin Hansen has spent his career learning it.
You will catch fish. You will also leave understanding why the grass floods when it does, what the tide is doing to the bait, and how the whole system fits together. That second part is the reason people book again.
Three ways to fish it.
Beaches and inlets
Bull redfish and tarpon patrolling the surf line and the inlet mouths. Big fish, sight-driven, when conditions cooperate.
Conventional tackle
Spinning and baitcasting gear for the seasons when fish are deep and there's nothing to see. The right tool for a specific fishery, not a fallback.
He learned this water first.
Captain Colin Hansen grew up fishing Charleston — these creeks and bars, long before anyone paid him to run a boat. Since then: trout through the San Juan rivers, summers out of Telluride, harbors in the Bahamas, decks in Nantucket. Every mile taught him something. All of it comes back here.
Half day or full day.
Half day, five hours, $650. Full day, eight hours, $950. A 50% deposit reserves your date.