1/2 cooler in 2 passes just across from cowpens today just before dusk. Instead this is how the next two passes treated us…
Yup, tore up that net. Made another clean pass and put about another 1/8 cooler on the boat… and then this happens
Yet another net bites the dust! Argh!!! This trip cost me $180 in nets alone.
dang:( nice red though
19’ cc Mako
150 yammy
Bottomz up
Too bad on the nets, ■■■■■ happens. Bet that spot tail was a surprise. hate those rays.
17’ Mckeecraft
115 Suzuki 4
www.RiversTurkeyCalls.net
“Thar She blows”
Wow, still not bad with 2 passes and 1/2 cooler. . .lately most people are posting about 10 passes with about 20 shrimp.
1985 Boston Whaler Montauk “17”
1982 Boston Whaler “15” Super Sport
I feel your pain on the nets. If the ray would just chill out you could get him right out BUT, that’s not how they roll. And rolling is the problem. One tied my brand new net up into a squirrel nest a few years ago.
J Ford
Nice Red, I hope I get mine on a hook
“I fish therefore I lie”
2006 Mckee Craft 185 Bay Classic 150 Yamaha
.first good report I heard from out there today…what tide and boat? Will look for you next time and give a shout. See a couple shrimp on deck…we’re yours mostly small and medium? Btw…friend told me last year to not tie rope to wrist because of big sharks,rays and hangs…tie mine to a cleat now on the now…toss net and rope…feel a lot safer…saved a wrist already this year when I caught a hang.
Nice red!
miss’n fish’n
212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16
quote:
Originally posted by penfishn.first good report I heard from out there today…what tide and boat? Will look for you next time and give a shout. See a couple shrimp on deck…we’re yours mostly small and medium? Btw…friend told me last year to not tie rope to wrist because of big sharks,rays and hangs…tie mine to a cleat now on the now…toss net and rope…feel a lot safer…saved a wrist already this year when I caught a hang.
Nice red!
miss’n fish’n
Dern, that makes a lot of sense, never thought about being pulled in…great advice…I will remember that
212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16
Took a little while to get use to the rope hanging down to the bow and not in my hand…but I have 75 foot rope on my nets…so nice I toss it…I just feed it over and let it hit bottom…lots of rope so wind ,tide and drift don’t matter as much…just be careful that in the swing…you don’t let the rope catch in the weights. I keep a knife on a lanyard around my neck too…just in case…
Sorry…didn’t mean to hijack thread outer banks. Hey…we’re the porpoise thick on y’all?
miss’n fish’n
212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16
Go figure, two days later we’re in the same spot, only two hours later (low tide - outgoing), and mind you at dusk… we only caught a 1/3 cooler in about 8 passes. I suspect it’s because I had an amateur driving for me, and he couldn’t get me off the bait soon enough. Those 20+ legs the shrimp had probably enough time to borough underneath the leads of the net. Once I figured it out, we started to get more shrimp in the net / cast. But still nothing like it was Thursday. Learn something new every time!
We are catching mostly large, some mediums, some Jumbos in Cape Romain Harbor.
By the way… for those thinking I kept that Red… nah, here’s the release to prove it! I don’t keep illegal fish. We are better off preserving what we have for generations to come.
Penfishn, thanks for the rope tip. I’ll pass the message along to Joe (in the pics). I personally don’t tie my rope around my wrist, but its a good point to know why to NOT doi it!
you are most welcome. the stingrays are really bad this year! I never doubted you released the red…most people not only know its the right thing to do…but also not worth a hefty fine and losing your license to do one of the htings you love. take care and keep having fun…and leave a little shrimp for me 
miss’n fish’n
212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16