Fishing near Charleston, SC

Set on a peninsula in Charleston County, Charleston sits where five tidal river systems — the Wando, Cooper, Ashley, Stono, and Edisto — feed a vast inshore estuary. The convergence of the Ashley and Cooper at Charleston Harbor creates one of the East Coast's most productive urban inshore fisheries, with redfish, flounder, sheepshead, and speckled trout holding around bridges and seawalls. Beyond it lie the pristine flats of Bulls Bay and, 60–80 miles northwest, the freshwater Santee Cooper lakes.