you will have much better luck on flounder on “hard” bottom than mud flats. After years of gigging local rivers, it is obvious that flounder go not like soft pluff mud. We may see a few on on mud, but the majority are on sand, shell and rock, which makes sense since there is bait around rocks and shell and mud flats are pretty sterile. As far as the “exploding shrimp”, this is how BS gets passed around. The shrimp were fine, but the phosphorus was pulled from the bottom with a cast net and unknowingly dumped into the bucket with the shrimp. When phosphorus makes contact with the air, it bursts into flame…thus the story got started that the shrimp were exploding. Good story but not true.
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NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
Sounds like that might be what happened with the scrimps. Old stories retold over and over. Kind of like the kindergarten thing when you whisper something in somebodies ear and they pass it on..Then it is a different sentence by the end. Uncle used to work at Albricht and Wilson until it blew up twice...Now it's Rhodia...He said go scuba diving around that area and you will find loads of 55 gallon drums sunk to the bottom rusted out...They were formerly full of Hazardous Waste. I believe that to be true ...Thus..I will not fish near there.
You are right. I don’t have a clue about the how’s and whys. I have just been reading about the “Trashley” on this board since it’s inception. Please enlighten me. Maybe there is a good reason a corporation is dumping chemicals in a public watereway.
Jesus…this is sickening to know. These companies should be shut the phuck down if they can’t do better than that. I’m not a tree hugger either. It just seems with all the technology available today these companies could do better. Of course that woild probably cut into their bottom line.
For the most part (now days), companies do their best to avoid safety incidents and to control environmental impact. During normal day to day operations nothing is released - but accidents and mistakes happen. For whatever reason - fear of lawsuit, actually caring, regulations - most issues are considered and provisions are in place to avoid incidents, companies try hard and spend $$$$ to remain “clean”.
55 gallon drum dumping is a thing of the past.
But - there is a risk assoicated with the production of modern products that we all use and enjoy on a day to day basis. We scream about building things in the US, keeping jobs in the US and keeping the money in the US - well, one of the byproducts of that is pollution. Something will end up polluted - rivers, landfills, underground water - something somewhere… even if the process is “clean”, many times the production of the feeder products isnt…
Tanks leak, railcars and trucks have spills, flanges leak, pipes burst, containment fails - no matter how hard on trys or how much money is spent, things fail and releases happen.
So as we sit and enjoy our plastic boats, braided line and mono, fishing rods, lead sinkers & molded plastic lures - remember where those raw products come from…
Great point jughed. Unfortunately a lot of the chemicals/pollutants just persist in the environment for a very very long time. I’ve seen bright purple soil along the bank of the Ashley at a former fertilizer factory - that had been out of business for over 50 years…And folks, bright purple is not a color associated with “clean” soil.
