 This week on the sportsman experience Jim has headed offshore with his brother and two good buddies from sportsman boats They plan to head out in hopes of filling the fish boxes But bottom fishing some different reefs just offshore of their home waters in Charleston, South Carolina Jim look you just jump back in the boat man look at that big shark out there He's swimming with it. There he is. He's bumping it. Bumping it. There he goes. Get him now Fishing is a lifelong passion The pursuit of new species and lifelong memories is why we are up before dawn and coming home salty in the evening My name is Jim Isaac Lifelong fisherman boatbuilder and student of the water join us as we bring along family and friends to pursue new waters Learn new methods and enjoy our time together outdoors Welcome to the sportsman experience Charleston, South Carolina known for its history and great tourism spots whether you're downtown enjoying places like the battery or Rainbow Row Shem Creek exploring the rich commercial fishing history and sought after cuisine or visiting one of the many local Historical military attractions. There's always something for everyone here But one thing you may not know is that the low country is home to one of the best fisheries on the Atlantic Ocean Whether you're targeting inshore redfish offshore bottom fish or large pelagics Charleston has it all All right, so this week I have Jeff and Richie from Sportsman Boats with me. These guys are like best buddies, but total opposites All right, I brought us Two bottom rods each two spinning rods each I got terminal Loers leaders all ready to go That's about it. Good deal. I brought the doughnuts got the doughnuts Richie's quiet keeps to himself But he loves to fish Jeff on the other hand all he does is talk about bottom fishing He eats and sleeps bottom fishing. He has every piece of gear known to man. He brings it all with him Got my numbers Most important thing All right, just grab whatever and we'll come back and get the rods in a second. All right Have you ever heard the saying everything but the kitchen sink well Jeff brings the kitchen sink I thought our camera guys had a lot of gear, but Jeff outdoes them every time He even brings his own Garmin unit along in case he needs to mark any of my spots along the way Jeff brought 13 bags attack. Yeah, see Let's tell my brother I said you've never seen somebody that labels their tackle like Jeff I said everything's labeled. He's a label maker in his tackle bag. Yeah, exactly Plenty of nets Blowing pretty good right now We'll rig up some chicken rigs real quick just to get a couple of Rods ready. Hey, what's going on everybody? We're out here taking the open 352 today. We're gonna head out and do some bottom fishing We've got Jeff Hudson and Richie. I've got my brother with me John Harden We're gonna try to get out there and slowly a little bit windy today a little bit choppy But we're gonna try to get out here and see what we can do try to catch a little mix of bottom jump around from different Spots and uh, yeah, see what we can do I'll get a whole one for too long Not hating on the doughnuts. It's a little void though Yeah, Ricky put them right there in my view throughout the day We've been handling men hating all day you get a little men hating oil on your fingers and eat one of these Look at fingers. That's the best ones. There's a little natural flair to it. Yeah, I don't know about that. Oh good All right, here we go Three and a half weeks after knee surgery Get to go off Hey guys, we're out here fishing on the open 352 sportsman today And real quick just want to go over some of the really awesome features that help us when we're offshore fishing First and foremost, you got to keep your bait in great shape. So our Port Ann starboard 30 gallon pressurized aquarium live wheels do an awesome job of keeping that bait Nice and safe throughout a long ride offshore You're not have to worry about your bait getting beat up because these live ones are pressurized One of the things that we also have on this boat is a Seakeeper three Which is an amazing piece of equipment here that keeps the boat nice and stable while we're offshore We've also got port Ann starboard 234 quart fish boxes. These are macerated So you can load these boxes with fish and they will hold ice all day long And that way we can get our fish back and get them flayed up and they're nice and fresh and ready to go to the Table and it's just a great layout for offshore fishing for bottom fishing for trolling for whatever type of fishing that you're looking to do So that kind of wraps up the open 352 as you can see this boat's got it all It's a hardcore fishing boat when you're wanting to go offshore. So 352 does it all now. We're gonna get back to the action. Just getting out of the waterway We're kind of getting into the harbor right now. I'm just starting to look for some bait birds are starting to wake up So hopefully we see some pelicans diving here soon I was out here yesterday and found some bait right outside of Shem Creek up here, and there's some right off of Morse Island So we're gonna go and try to know real big congregations, but there's definitely plenty of men hating around So we're gonna go try to find some and put them in the live wells Hey, look at the radar flip right in front of us. Yeah, we just went over Look at their thing. Yeah, we went over a pot of them. I just can't see them. Yeah, they're flicking all around us Hey, they're everywhere. Yeah, just go forward about 30 yards Jim and I'll 30 yards forward, Richie. There's hard to see in this thing. Yeah, it's a big shot. I Hear him. Oh, yeah, I hear him right there. Oh, yeah, right beside the boat Yeah, there they are right there. That's perfect All right, you got a neutral. Yep. Oh, yeah, I got a three back it up. All right Couple decent size. Yeah most of them. Yeah. Yeah, those are set perfect and watch this Those are all juvenile pelicans right there. That's great. Where'd you out there on this net a couple times? No, he men hating the rest of the day, too So today we're heading about 15 miles off of Charleston, we're gonna be fishing about 50 to 60 feet of water The last few weeks I've been fishing this spot and it's been loaded with Kobe is so we should get on them Pretty good today. Some good marks like some big marks right underneath us right here. Go off your left right hand side yarn We're walking eight ton of stuff down below us Oh, there you go. We're sitting right on top of it with that sucker. Yeah Yeah, he's too small if he 36 so look at the look at the needles on his back They're pretty fish. There should be a bunch of them here than after these Oh, you got one. There you go. Yeah, maybe the fish are coming up under the boat. That'd be nice Here he is and jumped out the water Right there kobia. Looks like a little sucker. That's awesome. Nice kobia second one down second fish Pretty a little too small Go back and get us A little bigger one here. I'll let him go The kobia are definitely on the reef today The boys have several fish on the boat and they're just getting started The goal is to catch a few keepers and the South Carolina regulations Require kobia to be 36 inches to the fork of the tail. That's a good size fish and should make for a few tacos This one definitely feels better than that other one. Yeah There you go. We'll get up on the boat if you need to or let me know. I'm trying to see if it's here There's a wind blowing around. They're trying to try to move. Be that keep off I think a big boat like the 352 is a blessing on a day like today With all the people and camera gear that we have it's nice to be able to fish all around the boat And still have plenty of room to not trip over each other about to get bit right here You know, they're all hanging out together Let me grab the gloves real quick. I'll always say man. We'll have to put the tape on him This is a pretty good fish guys. Oh, we just lost him. Golly. That was a good fish too, man. He come on Broke me off That was a big fish So when you get into the big schools of kobia like this the action can get crazy It's comical watching these guys chase these kobia around the deck and three to four foot seas I'm telling them get them back in the water so we can get some more lines in All right, come on buddy. Me and the de hooker aren't doing too well. All right, finally Kobia six Jeff zero so Yeah, so we got into some kobia out here It's pretty rough, but we're we're trying to hold bottom, but it's uh We got a lot of wind on it today. So we're uh, yeah, we just tripled up on kobia lost one got two in the boat no keepers yet But we're like there's a bunch of them on this little piece of structure So we're we're kind of going back and forth and we're going to keep on beating on them here for a little while Jeff is struggling richy richy's leading the pack on the kobia right now Oh Would you look at that? Oh, yeah All right, so I just want to say hopefully one will grab it too. This is a better fish One thing about kobia is they extremely sharp spines along their back So you have to be really careful handling these fish are also extremely jumpy when they're green And john hard is about to find out releasing this kobia. I mean, it's pretty much the same pictures. You already got Yeah Jim looky just jumped back in the boat man A heck of a morning so far for the guys the kobia do not seem to be slowing down just yet Watching these fish you'll notice they school up all together and when one person hooks up It's not long before the rest do too. It's this that makes kobia fishing fun and action packed But generally where there are kobia, there are also sharks Kobia like to swim with sharks feeding off of the scraps But when you hook a kobia the tables can take a very quick turn you hooked up hooked up hooked up Sneaked one We're way off the spot but Richie just hooked once there's probably fish down there I'm kind of right here in front of you, but I'm trying to see it I'll pick up see if we can get that one That's a good one here pretty good fish guys I think I'm okay for right now Oh, yeah Big sharks underneath it Yeah, he's still green just grabbing there you go That shark was big too Yeah, that was bigger here. Yeah, that's shark will have your fish for sure. Yeah, I think he might be Oh, yeah, no fish on with him now Look at that shark. He's not eating him. Look how big he is. He's 200 250 pounds Oh, yeah, he's got a one or two fish. He's got a little tiny one. Look how big he is. He's got one kobia on him Yeah, that's what I was gonna do. All right, let's see what we got here I don't know if he's quite legal Is it to the fork or overall to the fork 33? No, he's 33 biggest one of the day though Look at that big shark out there There's a big shark out there That's why we might catch the big kobia There you go little tiny kobia. Yeah, do you have the kobia on him? There's the shark. The shark's gonna get it That was the one that was on him Dude, that was a huge kobia too. Did you see that one, uh The one big shark that came out on the outside. Yeah, it was like a tiger or something And then there's other like sand bars or something Ready? Yeah Next week on the sportsman experience the guys have had their fair share kobia and the tax man is pushing them out So it's time for the guys to run to their next spot about 25 miles further out to some large natural reefs Oh, yeah, I got him too. I got him one. Two, double that and double it up Nice grouper. Oh, yeah, he had to bend man. He's fighting like a That's the question of the day. What the heck is it? Man, I couldn't do anything with that face. I thought I was in here. You're the grouper man. We want to see some grouper. That's right I got color Think it's a red snapper Big red snapper day one. Oh big grouper. Really bad guy grouper. Hey keeper keeper. Yeah Oh no, there he goes Whatever at least we're looking um