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Savannah River Fishing Report Sep 5 2025 - Morning Bites, Tides, and Top Bait Tips
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Morning y’all, this is Artificial Lure with your Savannah River fishing report for September 5th, 2025. If you’re tuning in ahead of sunrise, you’ll want to know we’re looking at daylight starting about 7:02 AM, with sunset wrapping up at 7:42 PM, and a nice long day for casting lines.
Tides this morning are setting up for good movement. Low tide hit just after 1:30 AM, with high tide peaking around 7:07 AM—right around sunrise, which is always a sweet spot for inshore action, especially with the outgoing water that follows. Another low rolls in this afternoon at 1:36, with evening high at 7:47, so you’ve got two solid moving windows to work with, especially during the morning and then again when that tide pours back up around dusk, which folks say often fires up both redfish and trout activity.
Weatherwise, it’s classic late-summer Lowcountry—a bit steamy with mild NE winds at 5 to 10 knots, seas sitting right at 2 feet, just a light chop but nothing to spoil boat launches. No real worries of storms or wind shifts, so smaller crafts and kayaks will fare fine out on the main river or creeks, especially as the sun gets up.
Fishing’s been good lately for a mix of inshore and freshwater species. The river's been yielding solid numbers of redfish, spotted sea trout, and flounder near the saltwater line at the mouths of creeks feeding into the main channel. Reports from locals say DOA shrimp, Z-Man soft plastics in new penny or electric chicken, and live shrimp under popping corks have all been strong producers—especially near grass lines at high tide, or working drop-offs as the water falls out. For those chasing stripers and the occasional hybrid upriver, a white bucktail jig or a Bomber Long A at dawn has stirred some action.
Freshwater stretch above the city’s seen a good run of largemouth and even some spotted bass, especially on topwater early—think buzzbaits and Pop-R’s around laydowns and shaded banks. Folks working spinnerbaits in chartreuse or white, or dragging a Carolina rig with green pumpkin worms, have reported some chunky largemouths over 3 pounds. Bartram’s bass—a real Savannah River trophy—are being caught, especially by those stealthy enough to target rocky shoals just above the tidal line, using small jigs or inline spinners.
Recent catches right out of Abercorn Creek have included several keeper flounder and a few sheepshead falling for fiddler crabs on jigheads tight to structure. The jetty area near Fort Pulaski and the Savannah River entrance is always a fall favorite for bull redfish on cut mullet or half a blue crab, especially as we head toward the mullet run.
A couple of hot spots this week: the stretch of shoreline from Hutchinson Island down to the mouth of Lazaretto Creek is giving up good mixed bags on moving tides, while the old Confederate Shipyard bend upriver is holding both catfish and bass, particularly in the early mornings. Don’t miss the backwater marshes around Turner’s Creek either if you want quiet, steady inshore bites.
Bait shops are running low on live shrimp, so call ahead, but mud minnows and finger mullet are plentiful and terrific substitutes. For artificials, a Gulp! Swimming Mullet on a jig is a good bet all day.
That wraps the Friday rundown—tight lines to everyone heading out! Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe to catch more local fishing updates. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.
Tides this morning are setting up for good movement. Low tide hit just after 1:30 AM, with high tide peaking around 7:07 AM—right around sunrise, which is always a sweet spot for inshore action, especially with the outgoing water that follows. Another low rolls in this afternoon at 1:36, with evening high at 7:47, so you’ve got two solid moving windows to work with, especially during the morning and then again when that tide pours back up around dusk, which folks say often fires up both redfish and trout activity.
Weatherwise, it’s classic late-summer Lowcountry—a bit steamy with mild NE winds at 5 to 10 knots, seas sitting right at 2 feet, just a light chop but nothing to spoil boat launches. No real worries of storms or wind shifts, so smaller crafts and kayaks will fare fine out on the main river or creeks, especially as the sun gets up.
Fishing’s been good lately for a mix of inshore and freshwater species. The river's been yielding solid numbers of redfish, spotted sea trout, and flounder near the saltwater line at the mouths of creeks feeding into the main channel. Reports from locals say DOA shrimp, Z-Man soft plastics in new penny or electric chicken, and live shrimp under popping corks have all been strong producers—especially near grass lines at high tide, or working drop-offs as the water falls out. For those chasing stripers and the occasional hybrid upriver, a white bucktail jig or a Bomber Long A at dawn has stirred some action.
Freshwater stretch above the city’s seen a good run of largemouth and even some spotted bass, especially on topwater early—think buzzbaits and Pop-R’s around laydowns and shaded banks. Folks working spinnerbaits in chartreuse or white, or dragging a Carolina rig with green pumpkin worms, have reported some chunky largemouths over 3 pounds. Bartram’s bass—a real Savannah River trophy—are being caught, especially by those stealthy enough to target rocky shoals just above the tidal line, using small jigs or inline spinners.
Recent catches right out of Abercorn Creek have included several keeper flounder and a few sheepshead falling for fiddler crabs on jigheads tight to structure. The jetty area near Fort Pulaski and the Savannah River entrance is always a fall favorite for bull redfish on cut mullet or half a blue crab, especially as we head toward the mullet run.
A couple of hot spots this week: the stretch of shoreline from Hutchinson Island down to the mouth of Lazaretto Creek is giving up good mixed bags on moving tides, while the old Confederate Shipyard bend upriver is holding both catfish and bass, particularly in the early mornings. Don’t miss the backwater marshes around Turner’s Creek either if you want quiet, steady inshore bites.
Bait shops are running low on live shrimp, so call ahead, but mud minnows and finger mullet are plentiful and terrific substitutes. For artificials, a Gulp! Swimming Mullet on a jig is a good bet all day.
That wraps the Friday rundown—tight lines to everyone heading out! Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe to catch more local fishing updates. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.