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Myrtle Beach Fishing Report

Updated Fri, Oct 23, 2026 from live gauge and weather data

Sixty miles of Grand Strand surf and piers, with Lowcountry creeks hiding behind the neon.

3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
Low 12:14 AM
Air / High
69 / 70 F
Wind
NE 9 mph

Sources: NOAA tides 8661070, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.

Satellite view
Friday
23
October 2026

Today's Fishing Report

Generated this morning from live readings: gauge, weather model, sun and moon. A fresh report is published here every morning.

3/5Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Myrtle Beach sits in the sweet spot of the season: active fish and workable weather. Today brings clear skies, wind NE around 9 mph, steady pressure near 1022 hPa and a high of 70. Tides: high 5:32 AM and 5:58 PM, low 11:58 AM: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 78 F for the season (estimated). With the waxing gibbous, the solunar majors run 9:50 AM-11:50 AM and 10:18 PM-12:18 AM: the windows to build the day around.

The plan, species by species

Redfish (red drum)Excellent

Spring and early summer put redfish on grass flats, shorelines and oyster bars; on the Gulf, fish below spawning age stay inside the bays (TPWD). Sight-cast to tailing and cruising fish or drift live shrimp under a popping cork.

Speckled troutExcellent

Spring brings seatrout back over shallow seagrass, and the spawning season (April to September in Louisiana and South Carolina) keeps them feeding. Popping corks with live shrimp, free-shrimping on the drift and casting to working birds are the main tools.

BluefishExcellent

Warming water pushes the schools north along the coast. Casting spoons and poppers into bait and chunking menhaden are the usual approaches; use a wire or heavy leader every time.

Tomorrow: Similar at 72 F. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.Next report: Sat, Oct 24, 6:30 AMHow this report is made β†’

Before you go

South Carolina requires a fishing licence from age 16, from $10.00 for residents, and salt water needs its own licence here. What a South Carolina licence costs and where to buy it β†’

Chasing redfish (red drum) here? Check the size and bag limits with SCDNR before you keep anything. The season dates for South Carolina, read off the agency, are on the South Carolina seasons page.

Water and weather

Live readings.

Tides

NOAA station 8661070 (Springmaid Pier). Fish the moving water either side of each change.

Fri
HIGH5:32 AM5.5 ft
LOW11:58 AM0.9 ft
HIGH5:58 PM5.6 ft
Sat
LOW12:14 AM0.4 ft
HIGH6:19 AM6.0 ft
LOW12:47 PM0.6 ft
HIGH6:44 PM5.7 ft

Myrtle Beach tide chart: the week and the month β†’

Right now

Latest readings

Air temp69 F
High / Low70 / 44 F
WindNE 9-12 mph
Pressure1021.9 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset07:26 / 18:32
MoonWaxing Gibbous, 91%
Water temp (seasonal)~78 F est.

Bite planner

Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today. Tap a bar to see why.

5 AM8 AM11 AM2 PM5 PM8 PMsunrisesunsetPRIMEPRIME

Which day to fish Myrtle Beach this week

The best day on Myrtle Beach this week looks like Sunday Oct 25, at 5 out of 5, against 3 today.

Best day this week: Sunday, Oct 25 β€” excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.

Today, Oct 23 β€” Fair

A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Solunar majors
9:50 AM-11:50 AM and 10:18 PM-12:18 AM
Minor period
4:12 AM-5:12 AM
Sun
07:26 to 18:32
Moon
Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit
Sky and wind
Showers, 10 mph
Rain chance
0%

Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out: how the score is built.

Species guide

The species that matter on Myrtle Beach: seasons, structure and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.

Redfish (red drum) illustration

Redfish (red drum)

Best: late-summer and fall bull run; inshore all year

Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), called redfish across the South, is a bronze inshore drum with a black spot near the tail, fished on grass flats, oyster bars, marsh creeks and beaches from the Chesapeake around Florida to Texas. Spring and early summer put redfish on grass flats, shorelines and oyster bars; on the Gulf, fish below spawning age stay inside the bays (TPWD). Sight-cast to tailing and cruising fish or drift live shrimp under a popping cork.

Speckled trout illustration

Speckled trout

Shallow bays spring and summer; deeper water in winter

Speckled trout is the anglers' name for the spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), a spotted member of the drum family that lives in shallow bays and estuaries from the Chesapeake to Texas. Spring brings seatrout back over shallow seagrass, and the spawning season (April to September in Louisiana and South Carolina) keeps them feeding. Popping corks with live shrimp, free-shrimping on the drift and casting to working birds are the main tools.

Bluefish illustration

Bluefish

Peak harvest: May-Oct, most in Jul-Aug (NOAA)

Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) are sharp-toothed schooling predators that move up and down the Atlantic coast with the seasons and feed in surface blitzes on menhaden, silversides and squid. Warming water pushes the schools north along the coast. Casting spoons and poppers into bait and chunking menhaden are the usual approaches; use a wire or heavy leader every time.

When to come: the Myrtle Beach calendar

Activity by species and month, and how the water warms through the year. Tap any cell.

Species activity by month

1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted.

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Redfish (red drum)
Speckled trout
Bluefish
SlowPeak

Water temperature through the year

Typical surface temperature for this water type; today is around 78 F (estimated, not a reading).

5060708090JanMarMayJulSepNovOct, ~78 F now

Angler reports

Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. The water log below tracks each day automatically.

No angler reports yet this weekBe the first: your report helps every angler who checks Myrtle Beach today, and we feature the best catch of the week.

Water log, last days

Auto-logged from live data
Thu, Oct 22

4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 73 F, wind to 8 mph.

Wed, Oct 21

4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 73 F, wind to 9 mph.

Tue, Oct 20

4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 77 F, wind to 10 mph.

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Before you go

License

South Carolina requires a valid fishing license for adults. Buy online from the state agency; one-day options exist for visitors.

Regulations

SC saltwater license (piers usually carry blanket licenses: check each). Redfish: 15-23 inch slot, 2 per day. Confirm with SCDNR.

Access

Apache, 2nd Ave, Surfside and Garden City piers; Murrells Inlet jetty walk; Huntington Beach State Park surf.

About this water

The Grand Strand, Horry/Georgetown counties, SC. Sixty miles of beach between Little River and Winyah Bay.

Fishing Myrtle Beach: the full guide

More than the boardwalk

Myrtle Beach reads as a resort town, but the Grand Strand fishes: a string of classic wooden piers (Apache, 2nd Avenue, Springmaid rebuilt, Surfside) producing kings in summer and spanish on every calm morning, steady surf whiting and pompano, and, behind the beach, Murrells Inlet's spartina creeks where redfish and trout live like it is still 1950.

Pier and creek rhythm

Summer: dawn spanish and blues on the piers, king rigs soaking off the ends, sharks after dark. Fall: the mullet run brings bull reds and big blues to the surf; the inlet creeks turn on for trout. Winter-spring: sheepshead on the jetties, black drum in the creeks, whiting year-round on the bottom rigs.

Beyond the piers

Myrtle's fishing extends past the pier postcard: the jetties at Little River pull sheepshead and reds; Murrells Inlet's marsh serves flounder and trout to kayakers behind the tourist strip; and winter surf whiting keep bait-soakers busy when the boardwalk sleeps. Offshore, half-day boats reach live-bottom black sea bass within sight of hotels: a resort town with a real working fishery attached.

Common questions

Which Myrtle Beach pier is best?

They all produce: Apache is the longest, the jetty end of Murrells Inlet adds structure fishing, and Huntington Beach State Park offers the wildest surf. Pick by crowd tolerance: the fish rotate everywhere.

Can you still catch flounder around Myrtle Beach?

Yes, within tightened SC seasons and limits: check current DNR rules. The inlets' creek mouths on falling tide are the proven drift: mud minnows or Gulp on jigheads.

Is fishing good at Myrtle Beach right now?

Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Nearby waters

Murrells Inlet13 miSantee River60 miCape Fear River61 miCarolina Beach62 miWilmington65 miLake Moultrie72 mi

Where this page's numbers come from

Tide predictions
NOAA CO-OPS 8661070 β€” Springmaid Pier
Harmonic predictions, datum MLLW, local time. 11 high and low events returned for today and the next two days. A prediction, not a measured water level: wind and surge move the real thing.
Weather and pressure
Open-Meteo forecast model
Queried at 33.6890, -78.8870 in this water's own timezone. A model, not an observation.
Moon and solunar windows
Calculated on this site
Astronomical calculation from these coordinates and the date, not a third-party feed. How much weight it deserves.
The written guide on this page
Pablo Ruiz Quintero
How this page was made. The daily report is computed by our scoring engine from live readings; nobody types it. The written guide was drafted with AI assistance. Unlike our newer pages, it does not yet list the official pages its facts were checked against: that audit is under way, and anything it cannot verify will be taken out. Pablo Ruiz Quintero sets every guideline, the data-verification system and the minimum standards a page must meet to be published, reviews page structure and approves what goes live; the responsibility is his, and the AI carries out the work. We work this way because it is how one person can keep every page current with named sources. Errors are published in the verification log; the full policy is in the editorial policy.

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