What a ride. That’s all it was. A ride. I leave from City Marina and take the long ride up the ICW. Setup for 1 poling in 2 different places. First one… nothing. Second one was baited well and worked from about 3 hours before low to right at low. Not even a crab. Nor fish of any size. Just water in the net. And I was throwing parachutes. Best looking throws I’ve ever done. Wanted to stay well into incoming tide but the sky starting looking bad. My shrimp boat was used for rescue at one time on Lake Murray and is setup with radar. I cut that on, ran it out to 30 miles and great dow. Looked like a solid weather wall marching toward the coast. I ran back hard to City Marina and just got the boat tied up before the lightning and storms hit. Looks like the shrimp have left the building this year for some of us.
Oh, does LadyShrimpKiller have a blue hulled cc boat and use red poles? If so, they were pulling up and running from the storm too.
I actually have two blue hulled cc boats and red poles.
What can ya say, suppose I have a fishing problem? [:I]
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Two CCs? Way cool. I think I saw a post where one was a twin engined rig for offshore. Can’t ever have too many boats.
I’ll say one thing. The three boats on Bull’s Sunday evening earned every shrimp they got (or didn’t get). Between the wind and storms it was a tough day.
I am most pleased with vessels - yami f150’s another thing… next addition will be suzuki, mercury, or diesel as yamaha does not stand by their work. BOOO YAMAHA. I am not a fan.
Yep, shrimping super slow at best yesterday pm. Wierd how tide much lower than it should’ve been. I think that plus the storm approaching had something to do with it. Doesn’t make sense because shrimp on sonar, shrimp were poppin’, just not feeding. But I bet they show up for the last weekend of scrimp baitin’ season
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Meddyn…don’t feel bad…spoke to three people who hit cowpens that evening too and didn’t do anything…One said they stopped at livingstons and paid a little over three dollars for some 16-20s…headed and ready to go n the freezer. That was a bad storm!! Glad you made it in in time!. I, like many will be doing the same and buying some shrimp. Glad the price is low…and if I catch some later…that will just be a bonus
Thanks Penny. I think we have enough from the first two trips to do till next season. Shrimping was pretty fair at the season start. (Oh, I’m voting for Roo today.)
Heather, a solid stable of boats for sure. You can’t go wrong with a Scout. On the twin the vee (looks at least 22 degrees) and setback motor mounts look like a fine offshore combination. Bet that is a sweet ride in the chop. The 150s are supposed to be solid engines if setup right but you gotta keep after them till they are. I’ve had plenty of Yamaha troubles but still go back to them. I bought a new Grady Sailfish 28 with twin 225s in ‘05’. Starboard engine never did run right. Finally sold the thing after coming in from the GT hole one too many times on one engine. This year the 90 4 stroke on the shrimp boat just barely made it back first shrimping trip in September. My dealer said it only need the carbs cleaned. Four carb kits and $750 later it runs a lot better. Never knew carb cleaning had gone up that much till he handed me the bill.
and red poles.
