smell of the tidal flats and spartina grass salt marshes. “One of the big differences in South


Carolina’s coast versus other parts of the country is our pluff mud, which runs pretty much from just north of Georgetown all the way down to the


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Georgia border and then some. It’s a unique ecosystem, but it does limit the amount of flounder we get in some areas,” he said. “We have larger amounts of flounder in the north, but the trout and redfish thrive in the pluff mud habitat because it is very nutrient


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rich and creates a lot of feeding oppor- tunities for bait fish and, in turn, for predatory fish.” Spring speckled trout fishing along


the South Carolina coast means locating ambush points where trout will hold and dart out into the current to attack


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