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Capt. Rick Hiott of Charleston enjoyed a =
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much longer. The reason? Hiott set up shop in = Charleston=92s Cooper River, underneath the Arthur Ravenel = Jr. Bridge,=20 which carries Rt. 17 and links Charleston and Mount = Pleasant. But he=20 wasn=92t fishing that bridge =96 he was fishing what was = left of the old=20 Silas Pearman Bridge.
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the pier and catch speckled trout will be over. =93You=92ve got to=20 get =91em while you can,=94 he said. =93You won=92t be able = to fish like=20 this anymore once they open it=94 and fishermen are lining = the=20 rails. The new = pier,=20 part of Mount Pleasant=92s Memorial Waterfront Park complex, = is a fish=20 magnet. Pilings from the Pearman Bridge were used as the new = pier=92s=20 foundation, and there=92s plenty of concrete rubble and = steel lining=20 the shallow river bottom under the new structure. And if = there=92s=20 one thing that trout love, it=92s rubble. And Hiott loves = trout, so=20 he=92s been there a lot recently. On Wednesday morning, with = the tide=20 rising, he and a companion set up under the Ravenel Bridge = and=20 flipped live menhaden on popping-cork rigs under the pier, = allowing=20 them to drift with the current. Specks were present, = including a=20 handful of keeper fish that it took Hiott only 30 minutes to = catch. =93The action = has been=20 good around the pier early and late in the day,=94 said = Hiott=20 (843-412-6776). =93You sit under the Rt. 17 bridge on the = incoming=20 tide and the other side of the pier on the outgoing tide and = just=20 let the current drift your bait under there. =93There=92s = all kind of=20 concrete and steel and rubble under the pier, and I think = the specks=20 just cruise along, waiting to ambush whatever comes = by.=94
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