Captain Jamie Holcombe

Captain Jamie Holcombe has been fishing since he was old enough to hold a rod. His pleasant personality and easy going nature makes him a pleasure to be around and ensure an exciting day of fishing. Captain Jamie has fished and traveled as a paid professional from New England to Key West, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Mexico, Honduras and Panama as well as traveling through the Panama Canal and experiencing the fishing and adventures that Panama and Costa Rica have to offer. Water's Edge Charters always offers a professional and experienced crew to ensure your angling experience is unforgettable.

Captain Jamie Holcombe aboard Water's Edge

Captain's Log

10/23/10
Had an 8 hr trip on Sat. Bottom fished between 55'-60'. Caught plenty of fish just not plenty of keepers. handful of short gags, bunches of short BSB's, couple sharks, small king, a dozen nice BSB's.

September 24,2010

Finally got back offshore on Water's Edge after over a month of no fishing due to a motor being fixed. I was in hopes of some sailfish and wahoo, but I wasn't too thrilled with the prospect of fishing the full moon and it turned out to be slow day of trolling. We started on the 315 line on the ledge and it looked pretty good. After about 45 mins we had our first hook-up which turned out to be a 35 lb wahoo and we were feeling like we might have a decent day. Shortly after that we caught one out of a double hook up of skipjacks. The it was shark, shark and more sharks, little turdy kinda sharks. We worked from up to the 270 line out to 300 ft and down to the 375 line on the ledge. We caught a slinger dolphin on the ledge and after trolling around that area for about another hour without anything to show for it except a small barracuda we decided to switch over to bottom fishing while on the ledge which yielded some nice beeliners and more sharks and a big barracuda. We finished the day with 1 wahoo, 1 dolphin, half dozen beeliners, 8-9 sharks and 2 barracudas. Had action, but not exactly what we were looking for. There were a handful of other boats out there seemed to be having a slow day of trolling as well. We will hopefully get out again in about a week or so and see if we can do any better with less moon.

September 23,2010

Had a 6 hr. trip on Thursday and decided to go to the Garden area in hopes of a kingfish. Found the menhaden (pretty small) pretty thick off Morris Island beach around 9:00 am and headed offshore. Got detoured by a large school of bait around the C-Bouy and fished it for about 45 mins with nothing to show for it, so we continued on offshore. There was a nice color change from green-green to blue-green right there and everything looked good. Although there were millions (yes millions) of jellyballs in the bluer water. All we managed was one slinger dolphin and one breakoff from a fish that made a pretty good initial run. After a few hours of frustration out there I decided to stop at the Charleston 60 on the way home to try to salvage the day with a cuda, or anything for that matter. Got a double hook up of nice sized (+/- 40 lbs.) amberjack and broke one off at the boat and caught the other after a one hr. fight. Slow day, but the charter was happy with the big reef donkey.

June 21, 2010
June 21, 2010 I took an old friend Anthony DiBernardo , his cousin, Chuck and some of Chucks buddies fishing on Never Satisfied for a Full Day offshore trip. We ended up having a good day on the ocean with lots of good laughs and a good catch of fish. The day ended with us keeping 12 dolphin and 1 wahoo along with us missing a few other fish as well and releasing a few also.

June 16, 2010
I took my boss' COO and a couple of his friends out for a fun trip on the Contender. I knew they had their hearts set on some blue water fishing and after a very late start due to having to get the back back from the shop, fuel it, load it, etc... we shoved off from the creek at the crack of 11:00 am. We made good time heading out and I decided to stop in 130' on the 400 line because it was close and I had been hearing reports of dolphin being caught in there. Turns out the reports were true. I got a spread of small lures out while I prepped and rigged baits and got three bites, but nothing stuck. Once I started swapping out the lures for bait we started catching some dolphin. We ended up fishing a scattered weed area in a 140' and caught 7 dolphin in just 3 1/2 hrs of fishing. the largest weighed 30 lbs. on our drag scale( not sure how accurate that is) and the second largest was 20 lbs. on the same scale. we kept 4 dolphin and released three so they could grow up.

June 15 ,2010
We had a good day on a pretty ocean with great people. Started on the 420 line in 350' with some nice patches of weed and lots of scattered grass. It was organized enough to fish it, but it got more and more scattered as the day went on. We caught a bunch of small dolphin in that area as well as a real daymaker that we fought for about 45 minuites on a TLD 25 which we weighed in at Mt. Pleasant Seafood at 60lbs. even. Ended up keeping 15 dolphin for the day and releasing a good number of small ones.

June 11-12, 2010
Both Never Satisfied and Water's Edge had full day gulfstream trips on Friday. Elliot Curry ran Never Satisfied for us and had a fine day after a bumpy ride out. He started on the 420 line in about 300 ft. and picked up a few dolphin and a daymaker sailfish in there before moving further offshore and finishing up on a nice weedline in 1000 ft. around the 460 line and catching a few more dolphin out there. Elliot finished the day with nine dolphin and a sail. Water's Edge started on the 450 line in 400 ft. and we picked at the dolphin all day from 400 ft. to 1200 ft. and finished up on the same weedline as Never Satisfied. We ended up catching 30 or so dolphin and keeping 16 of the nicer ones. There were a ton of very small dolphin out there, but we were lucky enough to catch two real nice ones around 30-35 lbs. and a good number of gaffers made it to the box as well. Saturday's trip was a 6 hour trip that was supposed to be run on Never Satisfied, but due to a problem with one of the motors I had give the client "the Upgrade" and run it on Water's Edge. We went out around the 440 hole area and caught a few barracudas and amberjacks which made the clients happy. It was a beautiful day to be on the water.

June 4, 2010
We ran way, way out to the deep looking for what was hopefully going to be a nice hard edge offshore of the 226 Hole. All we found was a ton of current, some weeds with no fish on them and two longline boats just setting their gear. Since we were already out there we gave it a try for about 2 hours before running back inshore and joining up with some other boats who were catching some dolphin and sailfish in 300'-400' around the 430-400 line. When we got there we missed a sailfish and saw two more in the spread that we couldn't get a bite out of. Then we finally started catching a few dolphin. We had a real nice teaser bite from a small blue and released a white also. Ended the day keeping 10 dolphin, the largest of which was a daymaker 57.5 pounder. Getting a shot at a Slam was nice, of course actually getting the Slam would have been better, but still a good day.

May 30, 2010
We fished a little south of Edisto Banks in 200-240 ft. There was some scattered weed and pretty looking water in the area as well as quite a few small dolphin. After picking through plenty of small fish we managed to keep 13 dolphin as well as loosing a couple of nice fish right at the boat that should have had gaff holes in them. My crew found out the hard way that a gaff can be a pretty effective release tool when used improperly, but you'll have days like that, I know I've had 'em when I was in the cockpit from time to time. The largest fish of the day were three that were in the 20 lb. class others ranged from peanuts to maybe 15 lbs. or so.

May 21-22
Had good day on Friday with Todd Edwards and friends. Started fishing in 250 ft. around the 200 line on a nice weedline that was already crowded and quickly becoming more crowded. We ventured offshore once the weed pushed in over the ledge. Fished as deep as 450 ft. and caught a few dolphin out there, most were caught on the weedline though. Ended up catching 18 and keeping 15. Saturday was a different story. We got on a beautiful weedline/color change/temp break just offshore of Georgetown Hole thanks to Ryan on the Aggressor calling us up that way. There was a good crowd there again and it seemed as though the boats that found it early were rewarded with a good catch of dolphin (although quite a few small ones). We could only manage seven for the day which was extemely frustrating. As the weed pushed inshore towards the Hole the blackfins popped up in the afternoon. We tried to catch some of those and ended up with a skipjack instead.

May 15-17, 2010
May 15, 2010 We fished with Matt Fleming and his wild bunch of bankers from NY and Charlotte. These guys were a blast. We ended up catching 10 dolphin , most of which were good sized fish. May16, 2010 Karson Corley and company joined us on Sunday for what was a very memorable trip for me. Karson brought his oldest son Mason and one of Masons friends and asked me to bring my son David. David is seven years old and this was his first offshore trip. He got up with me at 3:30 am and stayed up until the ride home and never took any seasickness meds. We ended up catching 11 nice sized dolphin, two of which David got to catch. David also got slapped in the face/neck by a dolphin tail which he thought was really cool (go figure). He also got to see two blue marlin. We caught one and missed another that crashed the left teaser and gave the crowd a good show before he took off after missing being hooked despite a couple attempts by my trusty mate Hambone. We also missed a sailfish. May 17, 2010 Tom Bentley had a fun day on Waters Edge with some of his clients and employees. We ended up with 10 dolphin and got to see a free jumping blue marlin put on a wild show in the morning.

April 20, 2010
The boss and I took a fun day to go try our hand at some sheephead fishing on Never Saisfied. Turned out to be a fun day indeed. It was action packed with bite after bite, but unfortunately for us I brought my D- game and probably missed around 20 fish or so. Gary on the other hand took up my slack and was producing pretty consistently. All in all we ended up keeping six nice sheepheads and three keeper black seabass. We released two other smaller sheepheads (the two that I caught I believe) and numerous black seabass and ringtail porgies. Oh yeah, just to make the trip a little more interesting I left the landing net in the back of my truck so I was gaffing sheepheads.

March 2010

Water's Edge is geared up and ready to get fishing off of the Charleston coast in 2010. We are offering two boats this year. The new addition is Never Satisfied, a 31 foot Contender which will allow us to offer more flexibility and affordability to our clients. Both boats have been wintering in South Florida and the Bahamas.

We've had a good winter season down there, but we are anxious to get back to Charleston in anticipation of the great fishing that Charleston has served up for the past several seasons. Both boats will be back on Shem Creek ready to go by mid-April. Give us a call or send us an e-mail to book your trip aboard Water's Edge, one of the finest sport fishing yachts available for charter in all of South Carolina or a trip aboard Never Satisfied, the fast, fully fishing equipped 31 foot Contender.

- Captain Jamie Holcombe

March 2009

Water’s Edge is ready to start the 2009 charter season after an extended winter in Florida and a visit to the Bahamas. Our winter fishing was good this year with a mixed assortment of dolphin, wahoo and blue marlin caught on the days we fished. The fishing season is in full swing in Charleston’s offshore waters right now and we are anxious to get in on the action. Right now dolphin, wahoo, blackfin tuna, sailfish and blue marlin are being caught in good numbers. The boat will be back on Shem Creek the first week of May and available for charter throughout the summer and fall season . Give us a call or e-mail to book your trip aboard one of the finest sportfishing yachts available for charter in our area with an experienced, courteous and fun crew.

- Captain Jamie Holcombe

6/12/09 & 6/13/09

We fished the Camp Woodie Tournament with a real nice group of people from Hilton Head. Brit Barker and some of his friends and co-workers along with their kids, Dorsey, Abagail, Colton, Kalib and Jonathan kept us entertained for two days of fun fishing. Day one we fished started fishing around the 450 line in 350ft. and ran down to the 560 line in 450 ft. to a pretty green to blue edge with a thin strip off weed on it. Ended up catching 10 dolphin (most caught off the green to blue edge). Day two we fished father south starting on the 630 line in 350 ft. on the same green to blue edge as the day before. It looked a lot more defined with a little more weed on it. Unfortunately the fish didn't feel as good about it as I did. We did manage to catch 7 dolphin for the day.

We had three fun days of fishing with some really great people. Thanks for the good times and memories. I'm looking forward to doing it all again when the sailfish start snapping.

6/11/09

Fished with Ernest Rogers and his two daughters and some their friends. Had a fun day on the water with beautiful weather and some nice fish caught. We fished around the 400 line in 300-450ft. Ended up with 8 dolphin and 1 wahoo. Also pulled off a sailfish and missed a real nice blue marlin

6/4/09

Fished the boss and some of his friends on Thursday. Started on the 300 line in 130 feet in an area of scattered weed with some decent patches in there. Caught two dolphin and pulled one more off. It was very difficult to see where the weed was with the cloud cover and early morning light which made fishing the area a challenge. After about an hour and a half we trolled straight offshore to the outcroup and worked the ledge in that area for a few hours. We caught two more dolphin, a king, a bonita, pulled off a wahoo about 20 yards behind the boat and pulled the hook on another dolphin. At around noon not much to show for our efforts and not much encouraging news from anybody that was offshore of me neither north or south. I decided to run back in to 130 feet where we started to see if the weed we were fishing in the morning had formed up any. It really hadn't formed up any better, but we managed to catch two more dolphin and pulled off another one. We had to get one of our guys back to the dock by 3:00 to catch a flight, but I felt like we could have maybe caught a few more dolphin from the area we finished in which was on the 315 line in 130 feet. Final tally for the day was 6 dolphin, a king, a bonita and too many missed fish for a day where every fish counted.

5/28/09

Fished the always entertaining Karson Corley Posse yesterday. Started on the 500 line in 600 ft. and worked due north. Found a little weed line around the 460 line in 400 ft. that went from SW to NE. Not a whole lot to the line, but it had some fish on it. we finished the day with 31 dolphin and threw back a few skipjacks. The weather looks great for the next few days and we've got some dates available so give a call or send us an e-mail for rates and available dates.

5/17/09

Sunday had Sammie Arnold and her crew on a charter. We started on the 320 line in 180 feet. Again, no weeds, color changes or temp breaks, but the water was a nice blended blue and there were a few fish there. Started fishing at 7 a.m. and put 6 dolphin in the box within the first hour and a half. The bite slowed down there so after talking to the Teaser, who was inshore of us in green water, we both figured there had to be a color change somewhere between us. We were right because Mark (Teaser) found a really pretty edge in 140 feet,ugly green on the inshore side and blended blue on the offshore side with a decent weedline along it. There were plenty of dolphin on it to make for a good day of fishing. I wish we could have found it earlier because we could have made a short day of it. Anyway ended up with 24 dolphin for the day. All fish on Saturday were gaffers and all but four on Sunday were gaffers. Largest were around 20lbs. and averaged about 12-15lbs.

Thanks, Captain Jamie Holcombe

5/16/09

Fished the boss and some of his friends on Saturday. Started on the 180 line in 200 feet. Fished an area about 1 square mile a mojority of the day. No real distiguishing features to fish except a small patch of scattered weed. Caught 27 dolphin from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. then put the plugs out hoping for a shot at a marlin. No luck with that but we did catch two more dolphin on the plugs.

We had David McCauley charter us on Friday, June 1st. David is a repeat client from last year and this time he brought his son Christopher along with Chuck and Bucky Stone and Alan and Patrick Waldrep. The day was beautiful and Christopher, Bucky and Patrick stayed busy fighting fish and enjoying the view from the tower. We fished the Edisto Banks area and worked out 300ft. and back to the bank. By the end of the day the boys had caught 15 dolphin and Patrick got the bonus catch of the day, a real nice sized white marlin (about 65lbs.). David, Chuck and Alan seemed to have a wonderful day watching their sons have a blast catching fish and enjoying a beautiful day on the ocean. Can't wait to fish with them again.

Captain Jamie

We had trip with some good old boys from GreenVegas (Greenville, SC) on Friday. Russ Crowe (we kept all phones away from him to keep everyone safe), Mark, Rick and "the angling coach/2nd mate Bo kept my mate Zach and I entertained all day with their good natured ribbing of one another while we were in between bites. We fished from 130' to 215' and experienced some good action for what is expected in August for offshore fishing out of Charleston. We kept our crew of anglers busy with the barracuda typical of where we were fishing and the hot mid-summer water we fishing in. Actually we kept Russ and Bo busy with three barracudas and one shark. Mark and Rick on the other hand had the hot hand on this particular day. Rick started our day with a slinger dolphin and later caught a wahoo of about 18-20lbs. Mark had the best day of all with a sailfish and a wahoo of about 25-30 lbs. I look forward to fishing with this gang again. Hopefully the sailfish bite will return to Charleston like it has been for the past few years and we can get Russ his first billfish.

Captain Jamie Holcombe

On May 1st Karson Corley and the Lexington, SC Mafia came down to fish with us again. Our day was long and we had to work hard just to catch 5 dolphin (1 of which decided to free itself from certain peril in the fishbox at the back of the boat during a "slinging" attempt). It's pretty crazy that fishing can go from great to slow in one day, but obviously it happens. It didn't just happen to us either, the whole charter fleet was crying the blues. One very good local charter boat actually went from catching 60 dolphin on the 30th to catching 2 or 3 dolphin on this day. Oh well, fortuantely Karson understands that's fishing and he'll be back with us again soon. We'll hopefully give him the big day he deserves.


Captain Jamie Holcombe

On Monday April 30th we had Bill Silva, Jerry and Chris from Greenville come down to fish with us. It turned out to be a memorable day for for all of us. We started out at the Georgetown Hole and quickly put a nice gaffer dolphin in the boat which quickly caught my mate, John Frick in the shin with a very sharp 9/0 hook. To make matters worse as the hook went in one side and out the other the dolphin was still attached to the hook, via the line, and thrashing violently. Needless to say John wasn't feeling too sporty after that expierence. So while Bill, Chris, Jerry and myself scrambled between tending to John's injury and the tunas that had begun eating our baits and breaking water all around us, we managed to put three nice tunas in the boat. The other boats moved in to the area and the tunas went down deep which made the fishing slow down. After about an hour of no bites I decided to make a run to the south and fish a weedline that some other charter boats were doing well with the dolphins. The move turned out to be a good one. We immediately caught 2 more dolphin and continued to steadily catch 6 more after that. The best was yet to come though. About 45 minutes before it was time to head in a very hungry blue marlin crashed the party. It came in and marauded the left squid chain teaser and was sucessfully teased right up next to the boat and John did a great job of feeding it a bait on the lightest rod and reel we had on the boat. Not the ideal rod to try to catch this fish on, but we had to deal with it. After an exciting intial run with jumps and tailwalking all over the place we were left with about 4 wraps (literally) of line left on the reel. The marlin then decided to slug it out deep and we all worked together to get the line back on the reel. After about 45 minutes we sucessfully released an estimated 175lb.-200lb. blue marlin on a Shimano TLD 25. Bottom line: 3 tuna, 9 dolphin, 1 large (150lb.-175lb.) shark and a beautiful blue marlin. Thanks to Bill, Chris and Jerry for a great day of fishing and helping John with his injury. By the way John is OK after a tetnus shot and a good cleaning of the wound, both of which he said felt "really great" (I think I'll take his word for it).

Captain Jamie Holcombe

We fished with a really fun bunch of guys from Lexington, SC on the 18th of April. The weather was pretty nice and the fishing in the morning kept us busy. We ended up with 6 blackfin tuna for the day. This was our first trip fishing out of Charleston this year and I'd like to thank Karson Corley, Brent, Chris, Rod and Keith for making it another great day on the water.

Captain Jamie Holcombe

The Water's Edge crew is excited for the upcoming Charleston offshore fishing season in 2007. We will be on Shem Creek to start our charter and tournament season by Mid-April. The past few years have proved Charleston's offshore fishing is as good as it gets anywhere in the continental U.S. Our meat fishing (tuna, dolphin and wahoo) has always been good and the billfishing (blue marlin, white marlin and sailfish) has really exploded over the last two to three years. Call me at 843-209-1895 or e-mail me at holcombejp@gmail.com to book your offshore fishing trip aboard what is certainly one of the finest boats available for charter in all of South Carolina. We will always work our hardest to provide you with a most successful and enjoyable experience on the Water's Edge.

 Captain Jamie Holcombe

07/07/06

Well we've finally wrapped up a long month of tournament fishing. Starting with the Charleston Harbor Marina Billfish Tournament and finishing with the Mega Dock Billfish Tournament with the Big Rock Blue Marlin and Hatteras Marlin Club Tournaments sandwiched in between them, we've been very busy. Not much to report for the Charleston Harbor Marina Tournament except for some nice dolphin including a 42lbs. Next was the Big Rock in North Carolina. We fished from Hatteras and saw a good number of fish throughout the week ending up with a blue marlin estimated at 350lbs. which we released. Concidering that 188 boats fished 4 days each and only 69 billfish were caught we did better than most in that one. The Hatteras Marlin Club Tournament was even better for us with two blue marlin releases. Unfortunately the first blue we caught in that tournament was a week too late meaning that it was big enough to probably win the $764,000.00 first prize in the Big Rock had we caught a week earlier. Of course the Hatteras Marlin Club Tournament is an all release format, oh well. Anyway the fish measured 112 inches and was big and fat (estimated at 500+lbs.) and the other was about 175lbs. Our final standing in that tournament was tied for fourth with three other boats, but 7th overall based on time. The final tournament was the Mega Dock and fishing was excellent by anyone's or any place's standards. We had a rough start the first day missing 7 opportunities to hook and catch billfish. The final day our percentage was a little better, catching 2 sailfish and 1 white marlin and missing a blue marlin to complete the slam. We've had the chance to get our feet back under us after some travel and hard tournament fishing, so we're ready to go again back here in Charleston. Give us a call or book on line because our fishing season so far has been the best that anyone can remember Charleston ever having.

Captain Jamie Holcombe

05/26/06

We fished with a fun group of guys from the Greenville area on Friday, May 26th and made a pretty decent day out of what could have been a slow sloppy day. David Mc Cauley and his group did a great job and hung in there throughout a rough day. We started off with two yellowfin tunas in the morning and picked at some nice sized dolphin throughout the rest of the day. Our final tally was 8 nice gaffer dolphin and 2 yellowfin in the 40lb. range. Thanks to David and friends for a memorable trip and we'll everyone posted on our future trips.

Captain Jamie Holcombe

05/22/06

Water's Edge started it's tournament season at the Georgetown Blue Marlin Tournament last Thursday. The fishing was very slow and the sea was very sloppy. We ended day one of the tournament with nothing to show except for some bumps and bruises from being thrown around all day by the ocean. At least we were on one of the biggest and most comfortable boats out there and we weren't the only ones experiencing slow fishing. Out of about 45 boats only two caught billfish and although there were some meatfish (dolphin, tuna and wahoo) caught it was not a banner day for anyone. Saturday was our final fishing day of the tounament and it started off slow as well. Around noon we finally found what we were looking for. Tunas were busting all around us and we caught some real nice dolphin and even saw a free jumping blue marlin, but couldn't get a bite out of it. We finished the day with 4 dolphin, the biggest being 36lbs. and putting us in the lead for the biggest dolphin for a short while until a 59lb. stud came to the scales and crushed our hopes of a pretty nice pay day. We will be back at it on Friday the 26th with a charter then the following week is the Charleston Harbor Marina Tournament so stay tuned.

Captain Jamie Holcombe  hook1on@bellsouth.net

05/13/06

Water's Edge fished with a good bunch of guys on Saturday, April 13th. Chad and his father David Marcinak, Troy "Frog" Hill, Titus May and Ralph Thomas stayed off  very busy first thing in the morning cranking in 5 yellowfin tunas and a wahoo all caught between 7:00 am and 8:00am. We missed a few fish in the following hours including a real nice wahoo that broke off just out of gaffing range. Things slowed down for an hour and a half or so then we started to pick at the dolphin and ended up with 3 out of 6 hooked. We finished the day with a single yellowfin right before we pulled in our lines to head home. It  was a beautiful day on the ocean and our anglers were a big help in the cockpit. Thanks again Chad and company. Final fish tally: 6 Yellowfin, 3 dolphin and 1 wahoo.

Jamie Holcombe:  hook1on@bellsouth.net

05/07/06

We had our first trip of the season after spending our winter and early spring in the Bahamas. We took a fun bunch of locals out on Sunday to try our luck with the tuna, dolphin, wahoo and billfish that have been caught by some of the other local charter boats recently. We started off strong with a nice gaffer dolphin and a wahoo in the box by 8:30am then picked at the the dolphin throughout the rest of the day. The final tally for the day was 7 dolphin (6 gaffers & 1 slinger), 1 wahoo and a blackfin tuna. Thanks to our group of Sammie Arnold, Diane, Victor, Greg, Kent and Tim for a fun day on a beautiful flat calm ocean.

Jamie Holcombe:  hook1on@bellsouth.net