Savannah River Fishing Report: Big Tide, Reds, Trout, and Cats on the Chew

Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Savannah River fishing report. We’ve got a big moving tide today on the lower river. Tide-Forecast shows a low at the Savannah River Entrance around 2:30 a.m. and a strong high piling in about 8:40 a.m., with nearly 9 feet of range. That morning flood is the prime window, and the first of the outgoing this afternoon should fish well too. Sunrise is about 7:10 a.m., sunset around 5:18 p.m., so that early high lines up nice with low light. Weather-wise, the marine forecast out of Charleston calls for light northeast winds 5–10 knots and seas around 2 feet just off the beach. Inland on the river that means cool, stable, and pretty comfortable. Cloud cover and a waxing gibbous moon have had the fish feeding a little longer at dawn and again midafternoon, and SolunarForecast lists strong major bite periods in the early morning and mid‑day. Inshore from Elba Island up through Port Wentworth, the river’s been giving up good mixed bags. Local chatter and recent reports have redfish and speckled trout stacked on shell edges and creek mouths dumping into the main river. Slot reds have been coming in twos and threes once you find them, with a few upper‑slot fish mixed in. Trout catches are often 6–10 fish a trip when you stay on moving water and clean salinity. Best producers have been: - **Lures:** 1/4‑oz jigheads with electric chicken or opening‑night paddletails, MirrOdine‑style twitch baits over shell, and gold Colorado‑blade spinnerbaits slow‑rolled along grass for reds. - **Bait:** Live shrimp under a popping cork for trout, mud minnows or finger mullet on a Carolina rig for reds, and fresh cut mullet soaking on the bottom for bull reds and the stray blue cat upriver. Farther up the Savannah toward Augusta, river level forecasts show stable flows, and folks are boating steady numbers of blue catfish and channel cats, plus some striped bass where cool water meets current breaks. Cut shad on 3‑way rigs around ledges and outside bends has been the ticket. Expect anywhere from a half‑dozen to a dozen solid cats on a dialed‑in drift, with a few fish pushing into the teens. A couple of hot spots to circle on the map: - The **Elba Island Cut and ICW junction**, working the shell bars on the first of the flood for trout and slot reds. - The **port area around the old pilings near Port Wentworth**, targeting current seams for stripers and blue cats with heavy jigheads or live bait. Fish the edges: outside bends, shell, and any little drain spitting bait on that incoming tide. Once the water tops out and slackens, slow down, go deeper, and wait for the first push of the fall to fire things back up. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a Savannah River update. 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.