Half-day inshore
Flat water, short run, constant bites. Redfish, trout and flounder. The trip to book if anyone in your group has never been on a boat.
$300–500/boatRange under verification
Check ratesTwenty minutes south
Murrells Inlet fishing charters: the deepest fleet on the Strand
Inshore, nearshore and offshore boats all tie up along the same creek. You can walk the docks, read the boards, and book the boat you actually looked at.
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The short answer
What does a Murrells Inlet fishing charter cost?
The same as the rest of the Strand, because most of the Strand's boats are here. A half-day inshore trip runs $300–500 for the boat, working the creeks and the inlet itself. Full-day offshore runs $800–1,500. Head boat seats out of the inlet run $40–100/person, and summer shark trips run $500–700.
What Murrells Inlet gives you that the other towns don't is choice. Every trip type leaves from one stretch of water, so if the offshore forecast turns you can move to an inshore boat the same morning without driving anywhere.
Ranges under verification · Murrells Inlet, Little River & North Myrtle BeachThe docks
Where do the boats leave from in Murrells Inlet?
Almost all of them from the MarshWalk and the working docks either side of it, on the creek that runs behind the restaurants. It is about twenty minutes south of Myrtle Beach on Highway 17, and it is the reason so many "Myrtle Beach" charters have a Murrells Inlet departure address in the confirmation email. Check that address before you book, not the morning of.
The practical advantage of the MarshWalk is that you can go look. Boards outside the offices list the day's trips and what came in yesterday. Walk it the evening before, ask two captains the same question, and book the one whose answer you liked. That is a better filter than any listing page, this one included.
Park early on summer weekends. The lots fill for dinner, and a 5:30am departure means leaving your rental at 4:45.
Murrells Inlet or Little River — which should you sail from?
Murrells Inlet if you want choice. Deeper fleet, every trip type, shorter drive from Myrtle Beach proper, and somewhere to eat when you get off the boat.
Little River if the trip is the Gulf Stream. It has quicker ocean access from the north end, which means less of a twelve-hour day spent motoring through an inlet. If you are staying in North Myrtle Beach, the drive is shorter too.
For everything else — inshore, nearshore, shark, standard full-day offshore — the difference is drive time and not much else. Book the one you can reach in fifteen minutes at 5am.
When should you book a Murrells Inlet charter?
Later than you would for the Strand overall, and that is a real difference rather than a rounding error. Search demand for Murrells Inlet charters swings about 13.8 times between its low and high months, and unlike the Grand Strand as a whole it shows no March planning spike. People search this town once they are already on holiday.
Which means two things. If you are the sort who books ahead, you have more room here than the headline Strand numbers suggest. And if you are reading this from a rental with sand still on the floor, you have not missed your window — call in the morning for a next-day inshore trip and you will usually find a boat, midweek especially.
The trips
Which Murrells Inlet trip should you book?
The inlet runs all six trip types. These three are the ones it does best.
Full-day offshore
Bottom fishing over live reef for grouper, snapper and amberjack. Long enough to reach real structure, short enough to be back for dinner.
$800–1,500/boatRange under verification
Check ratesShark trip
Blacktip and spinner sharks a few miles off the beach, June through August. Big fight, short run, and everyone gets a turn on the rod.
$500–700/boatRange under verification
Check ratesThe booking clock
The Strand books in March. This town books the week of.
Grand Strand charter demand across a full year. Murrells Inlet runs against this pattern — its own searches skip the March spike and cluster in-season, because people look it up after they've arrived.
Grand Strand charter search demand, 12 months to June 2026 · Updated August 2026
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How far out you go, and what's there when you arrive.
Little River and the north end
Head boats and the quickest ocean access on the Strand.
Is a private charter worth it?
Where the maths flips against a head boat seat.
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