06/11/2026
🎣 ANGLER’S ACE BASIN-ASHEPOO RIVER RETREAT!🏡💫
Anglers are you looking for an opportunity to fish directly into the waters from your backyard? Are you familiar with the Brackish Transition Zone of the Chessy Creek & Lower Ashepoo River? Interesting waters are perfect and a property is available!
The zones of the ACE Basin, the stretch where Chessy Creek feeds into the main Ashepoo River (roughly 0.6 miles down-creek) offers a unique, low-pressure fishery. Because this is a true brackish transition zone, the water characteristics change drastically based on seasonal cycles and daily tides. This gives you a rare dual-threat environment right from a backyard launch:
*The Inshore Mix: On strong incoming tides, higher salinity pushes up Chessy Creek, bringing slot Redfish (Spottails), Spotted Seatrout, and Flounder directly into the grass edges and mud flats to feed on local shrimp and blue crabs.
*The Riverine Mix: During low-tide cycles or periods of heavy rainfall upriver, the environment leans freshwater. You'll find solid river Largemouth Bass, aggressive Warmouth, and Black Crappie tight against submerged timber and marsh structures.
*The Heavyweights: The deep holes right where the creek empties into the main Ashepoo hold massive Flathead Catfish and see a notable run of riverine Striped Bass during the cooler winter months.
*Access and Logistics:The upper creek itself is winding and shallow at dead-low tide, making it prime territory for kayaks, canoes, and shallow-draft Jon boats to pick apart the banks quietly. For those running deeper-draft center consoles or skiffs, navigating out to the main river is easiest by utilizing the community deep-water boat ramp.
*Property: $315,000 to own a permanent, direct footprint access to this specific fishery!
589 Backfield Rd., Walterboro
2-bed, 1-bath river cottage on 3/4 acre lot sits directly on the Chessy Creek tidal inlet and is situated immediately adjacent to that deep-water community boat ramp, giving you an immediate drop point into the main river channel to bypass the shallowest bends of the upper creek when the tide drops out.
Faith Walker has the key!🗝️
https://www.hometownrealtychs.com/real-estate/charleston-trident/property/26014696-589-backfield-road-walterboro-sc-29488/
