Palmetto Lagoon Charters - About Us
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Captain Trent Malphrus
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Captain Trent Malphrus is one of the rare natives of Hilton Head Island. This has been his
only home for almost forty years. Trent was born into a family that has thrived on the Low Country's
rivers and estuaries for hundreds of years. They fished, picked oysters, crabbed, shrimped and
frolicked in anything that has to do with Mother Ocean, and still do to this day. Trent's dad was the
most hard-core fisherman he has ever known.
Trent got the fishing fever at a very young age as he followed in his father's footsteps. All of the
fishing knowledge he has attained originate in his father's teachings. Trent now works to perfect
his skills and achieve a greater level of understanding of fish and the intricacies of fishing.
Trent's father has passed on, but would surely be proud of his son and his love of fishing.
Trent was introduced to the Palmetto Dunes lagoon system when he was about eleven years old. His father
would bring him to work and drop him off to fish all day in the brackish lagoons. These lagoons are
Abounding with wildlife like redtail hawks, ospreys, otters, kingfishers and an occasional alligator.
Trent now lives and works in Palmetto Dunes on Hilton Head Island. It is here, amid this familiar saltwater
kingdom, that he is now raising his own son. Every morning when he wakes up to this great big world, Trent's son runs
to the back door. Staring out at the dock he asks his mother, "has daddy already gone to work?" Occasionally he rises
early enough to find the skiff still moored at the dock and asks if Trent has caught any fish yet. It seems another Malphrus
has started down the road toward a life-long love of fishing.
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Captain Stacy Garbett
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Captain Stacy Garbett was born in the small town of Douglas Georgia. His grandparents owned a farm
with a few well stocked ponds that held bass, catfish, and brim. Every weekend as a child, Stacy
headed to farm for the weekend to do chores and fish. As a young boy on the farm, he had two choices;
work in the field or go fishing... He took the obvious choice. This is when Stacy's family decided to
move to Hilton Head Island and his love for saltwater fishing began.
Stacy remembers stomping through mud flats, creek banks, and salt marsh at a very young age. Then,
when he was twelve years old, his dad purchased the family's first boat. After the first cobia
season, the family boat was converted into the family "fishing" boat. Anything in the boat that did
not pertain to fishing was now gone. Eager to learn how to catch more species of fish, he read any
fishing literature he could get my hands on. Learning new techniques and modifying old ones, he began
to understand that there is so much more to fishing than just wetting a line.
On weekdays and rainy weekends there was no boating and Stacy discovered the banks of the salt water
estuary called Palmetto Dunes lagoon. This is when he discovered his love for Hilton Head's largest lagoon
system. Stacy has worked with Trent at Palmetto Lagoon Charters for four years now and loves every
minute of his "job".
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Captain Trent Malphrus
Palmetto Dunes Resort
Hilton Head, SC 29928
Phone: 843-301-4634
Email: Click Here
Call or email us anytime. We want to take you fishing next time you're on
Hilton Head!
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