OK this will be very hard to believe but nate was helping me with the new water line and he said look at that.i looked and saw shrimp jumping.Next thing i see a smaller flipper gobble them and swim up the creek.SHRIMP???
I have seen Flipper run schools of shrimp to the surface over 40 feet of water. Birds would follow them and take advantage when the shrimp started jumping.
SC and the Savannah river are also the only (so they say) places where flipper purposefully beach themselves in order to sling bait onto the bank. I have seen them do it in the Wando, and supposedely flipper only does it with one side of its body because the teeth are worn down on that side from grit.
Flipper will probably eat most things that swim. I’ve also seen them throw redfish and trout in the air playing with them before they eat them. Flipper is fun to watch…but I think most things in the water try to hide from them because they are on the menu.
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I have heard they only do that around Kiawah. I watch them do it regularly right were Bohicket Creek meets the Edisto and on South Creek off the Edisto. At low tide they are almost always beaching themselves in those places. Pretty amazing to see.
I believe they call that strand feeding. I have seen it up around Bulls Bay. Watched them do it one day for 30 minutes.
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We first saw shrimp jump and then a small ripple and then flippers mouth came up under the shrimp and he ate them.never saw that in 70 years of living here.No splash,no noise nothing.
Stonoman
Hard to believe that the shrimp are still in the creek in this cold water!
How deep was the water where this happened?
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[ i]Originally posted by stonoman[/i]We first saw shrimp jump and then a small ripple and then flippers mouth came up under the shrimp and he ate them.never saw that in 70 years of living here.No splash,no noise nothing.
Stonoman
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Originally posted by RADDADDYI have seen Flipper run schools of shrimp to the surface over 40 feet of water. Birds would follow them and take advantage when the shrimp started jumping.
That had to be cool to watch!
“you win some, you lose some…but nothing beats getting some!”
Have seen the strand feeding manytimes around Kiawah. Very cool sight.
High tide off my dock maybe 7 feet
Stonoman
I’m like BOATPOOR. It’s good to know there are some shrimp still in the creeks.
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Originally posted by stonomanHigh tide off my dock maybe 7 feet
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