Left Garris at noon and headed to mid-bay channel. A few other boats around and we set up in a place where we’ve done great before…test baited a couple of poles. After 45 minutes not a single shrimp, even tooling around and randomly casting in various depths, etc. We moved
and found the shrimp. We had 2/3’s of a cooler after about 3 passes and the shrimp were thick, but they very mixed size wise. We stopped as we had all the small/mediums we wanted to head. It was almost like being behind Morris Island. The bottom line seems to be the shrimp are scattered and you have to find them.
thanks for the encouraging report…how deep were y’all shrimping? we were in Venning Creek and in 6’ of water…9 shrimp total in about 2 hours…the water never looks like it got moving like it should and it was pretty clear, or at least not dirty how we normally like it…
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Originally posted by Bonzo72thanks for the encouraging report…how deep were y’all shrimping? we were in Venning Creek and in 6’ of water…9 shrimp total in about 2 hours…the water never looks like it got moving like it should and it was pretty clear, or at least not dirty how we normally like it…
i have heard this of you and your crew… especially Leroy!
We were in 5-7 ft when we got set up…with good moving water over a muddy bottom…
the poles just sunk right in…we were getting 40-60+ on many casts…if they’d all been
the “proper” Bull’s Bay shrimp we’d have coolered in in 2 passes.
Put in at BB about 4 P.M. yesterday, wind seemed to be blowing around 20 mph cloudy but we went anyway… Passed a larger boat sitting high on the mud bank, a couple folks where talking to them, and looked like one of them was on the phone, so we eased on out. Made me think that we should be careful. While looking for the right spot, I put the motor in neutral, talking to my daughter and looking at the GPS for that (spot). felt a bump, and yep it was bottom, she got out and pushed us back to deeper water (mental note: pay attention to the depth finder)… got set up around 5:00 p.m. current was running hard out, wind still blowing fairly strong. Made a couple passes with 2-3 shrimp per throw. Anchored drank a cold one figured we’d wait till the tide turned. Right at dead low we made a pass for the heck of it, about half way through they where there. Made another and filled the cooler to about 1/3, then they where gone. Back down to just a couple per cast, sat a few minutes and had another while enjoying just being out there talking with my daughter . Made a couple more passes same result so packed it in. We ended up with about a 3rd of a cooler of very mixed… small through large… We talked about it on the way home, we had a great time and if it was only about the shrimp, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper just to buy them. Looking forward to next time… (just for the record filled up the boat with non-ethanol gas, $4.25 a gallon)