After fixing the bunks and water pump on my brothers boat it was time to take it out. He wanted to learn about the harbor and boating and fishing and to fiah deep water. I showed him some spots to avoid, some places to find menhadden and a couple of spots to fish.
Old Grillage
We went by the red bouy across from the rocks on sullys and drifted some live and cut menhadden in the 25 to 40ft range. I had 1 hit close to the bouy that im pretty sure was a big flounder but lost it and other than that we didnt mark much and it was kind of a dead zone at that time which was dead high tide.
We cruised out toward some spanish and birds in the shipping channel in the jetties and some big boats and a ship went by and made my brother uncomfortable and we decided to head in toward ft sumter. We saw a guy wave us down and we started towing him toward shem creek but after about 20 minutes my brother got a little worried about his engine over heating from towing the boat so we parted ways with him at the mouth by sullivans and another boat took over towing. So with a little good karma in the bank we headed toward ft sumter. When we get close we see two boats on both the good ft sumter spots. New plan.
The New Grillage
Armed with a mix of about 5 live and dead menhadden and frozen finger mullet we anchored up about 30ft of water close to the tide line. Big bro and my pops both throw out the last 2 live menhadden on heavy weight carolina rigs but 1 was wire and 1 was 150 mono. They set the rods in the rod holders and the wait started. About 5 minutes and my brothers rod goes off. After a decent fight he lands a nice 4 to 5 ft lemon shark, his biggest shark ever. About 5 minutes later pops rod goes off and hes struggling and its fighting like the shark did. It pulls him around the back of the boat and hes dodging the egine and swim platform and he gets it up next to the boat and a big red pops up. Hes shocked he finally got his biggest red ever around 40ish and it took a long time (20 years). 5 minu
