If you only had one shot to hook that trophy fish while on the water, could you make it?

You had one chance to make that perfect cast that the fish sees it and hooks up.

Today we're heading to South Carolina to find out how you can put it together for redfish

so you can make that shot next time you are on the water.

This is the Wet Fly Swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip, and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. How's it going? I'm Dave, host of the Wet Fly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. I grew up around a fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing podcasts in this country. I've also interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers and guides than just about anyone out there.

Johnny Manero from Blackwater Revival Guide Service is going to take us on a trip to understand

redfish, the history, the fishing, we're going to get into it all today. You're going to find out

when you should be planning your next trip and what you should be thinking about for what to avoid. You're going to find out how to find the fish and position yourself for success and his take on the best rod to use for redfish. And this little hint here, this is not a super fast action rod. We're going to talk about it today, the best rod for redfish. Plus you're going to find find out why he's adding sharks to his program, potentially in the coming year. Stay tuned. Let's find out why we aren't following the milk route. Here we go, Johnny Minero from fishing blackwater.com. How you doing, Johnny? I'm good. Dave. How are you? Great. Great. Thanks for setting some time aside today to dig into a species that we've talked about a few times and we might talk about more than just redfish, but we're going to dig into a little bit on what you have going there in your neck of the wood, South Carolina in that area. And yeah, but before we get there, maybe what's going on this time of year? I know you're out fishing a little bit. Take us into like December, January. What would that look like for you? Yeah. So it's been a, it's actually been a

pretty good winter business and fishing wise. So this time of the year, Redfish kind of go through

cycles, but I'm sure we'll get into like the whole, the whole deal of that later on. But this time of

year, our fish are starting to move shallow water clears up

and they they push into bigger schools this time of year so on the fly fishing side of things

November through January months are you know are pretty good you could actually really see

through the water which sometimes is an issue in warmer months, but it's super clean.

The fish are usually happy to eat. You can kind of make your approach to them before, like,

bumping them. You know, like a lot of times earlier in the season, water is dirty, and it's like

you get that 10 foot shot. You got to make it happen like this time of year like

sometimes you can see him away's off it's good for you know all kinds of anglers in the wintertime

nice so this is it so so wintertime and then are you fishing out there like what does that look

like throughout the year are you pretty much like all year long all the months yeah we're 12

month of year fishery yeah so you, typically on the fly side of things,

people are coming here to fish for redfish, but, you know, we do do the speckled trout. There's

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