Yep…today…report to follow 
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Originally posted by penfishnYep…today…report to follow
miss’n fish’n
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Waiting for your report from YOU.
I’m so glad to see this! I have been worried because I have not seen any post from you lately. Good luck and I cant wait for the report and hopefully some photos!
WELL???
Home …tired…very. Happy…smell like mudd and fire smoke from roasting oysters…shower…sleep…pics tommorow…goodnight hugs 
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Thanks gurl!
Awaiting photos!
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Penny great to hear you had the oppurtunity to go out with your Dad,what better St.Pattys day could you want,and then to have fresh fire roasted oysters. I think they should make an air freshener in “Camp Fire” scent.
Ok…so yesterday I decided to clean cabinets and didnt get to the pics …so here ya go…
So the new crab season is getting ready to start for my daddy…ask me who besides him is excited ;)!!! He has been making pots for about three weeks now. He sure does a great job on them…and enjoys making them too.
We did notice however that some of his floats were pink and blue rather than orange and blue??? Lol…mentioned it to him and he said"I’m not crazy…can is" sure enough the can had orange on it for color…re spray will be needed
Daddy said this fern n the tree is called resurrection fern…will get all black and brown in the heat but as soon as it gets wet it truns green
My mom loves red birds…and there seemed to be one interested in watching daddy 
Trip out Saturday morning was cold…and I was glad I had my layered shirts and socks…and something to cover my face with.
Daddy working the tongs…makes it look so easy! I did it some too but I swear those oyster monsters were dragging the heads of those things all over the place.! Lol…after a while I figured it o
And that, my friends, is what you call a post! As usual, thanks for sharing, Penny!
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I enjoy seeing your reports.
I’ve never seen the post-hole digger method of oystering. Looks like it gathered a bunch of singles rather than clusters.
I’m liking your cooking methods, never enough burlap sacks around when you need them.
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Tonging oysters is tough work…handles are a lot longer than they look in the picture…on the end are a pair of “heads”. A wide steel basket with "teeth on the end…half of this is bolted to each tong handle…you inch the basket to the bottom with them open…then close them down and work them shut taking little grabs without lifting them…when they close you pull it up…lots of work…you will feel the shell and hopefully oysters under you…and hopefully bring some oysters up in the basket. I have a video I took that day…bad thing Is the one he pulled up was just shell bottom…so we had to keep moving to find the oysters…get clams this way too. Will post in a little while
miss’n fish’n
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Sea Squirt 16
Another great post! A great family day spent together. Question: Your Dad makes all his own traps? He is not repairing, he is making them? That is COOL
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Yeah…he makes them. …and does a great job at it. He parches them too…but it’s usually with zip ties! Lol. Sometimes they have so many holes zipped closed they look like a weird sea urchin with zip ties for antennae s…and like they have a life of their own. The salt takes its toll fast on the wire…even with the zincs. You figure the wire, clips to put it together…which are small hog rings…iron for the bottom, rope to tie that, a couple latches for the bait and door…rope and a bouy…they aren’t cheap…rigged out Probablly 65 dollars or so…he runs about 70 pots…that’s a lot of money. That’s why it hits so hard when he loses them. He can make the pots himself for a little less than half of what it would cost to buy them…and he enjoys it…says its relaxing. Next video…crab pot making
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That is a great post. Some fine looking oysters in there I might add!!!
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Man those look like gulf oysters as far as size. You guys are so fortunate to live there and spend time with family doing that. Nice work.
Penny now that looks more like getting right with the world than Yoga.Better to be sitting in a cold boat or by a camp fire than on the floor .Looks like a nice time with the family.I wondered if Roos PAPA had built her a special spot to ride next to him. “Well” at least we know Roo is NOT spoiled.
Wow. Those oysters and crabs look awesome! My wife and I just got our first boat and are super excited to put out a couple of crab pots soon. We’ve got just one now, but we’re hoping to buy another soon. Does your dad sell any crab pots? I’d much rather give my money to someone local than to some company somewhere.
Also, are oysters like that common around here? All I can ever seem to buy are clusters. We will probably try to make our way out to the state grounds towards the end of this year and try to find some awesome looking singles like those.
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Originally posted by penfishnTonging oysters is tough work…handles are a lot longer than they look in the picture…on the end are a pair of “heads”. A wide steel basket with "teeth on the end…half of this is bolted to each tong handle…you inch the basket to the bottom with them open…then close them down and work them shut taking little grabs without lifting them…when they close you pull it up…lots of work…you will feel the shell and hopefully oysters under you…and hopefully bring some oysters up in the basket. I have a video I took that day…bad thing Is the one he pulled up was just shell bottom…so we had to keep moving to find the oysters…get clams this way too. Will post in a little while
miss’n fish’n
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Worked for DNR doing shellfish management a few decades back and had the ‘pleasure’ of trying to tong oysters. I knew immediately I like picking them up off the bank better than tonging. That having been said, those sub-tidal oysters are always fat. Hard to find in SC waters, but, fat. I guess that’s one of the benefits of being from a little fishing village - you and yours know where to stick those tongs in the water. The rest of us might die of starvation looking for sub-tidals.
Neat stuff. Thanks for the post/pics.
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