I’m new here so I hope I am not posting this wrong. I am looking to get some help shrimping over near rockville, wadmalaw area. My wife and I have been at it for the last two seasons and the most we’ve gotten is maybe 8lbs. We were told to set up at low tide in water as shallow as we can near grass banks and let the water rise over our bait as it comes in. We’ve done that. We mix our fish meal and mud or clay 2-1. We’ve tried from the point of pines back up into bohicket creek and all the small creeks. To make matters worse her uncle goes almost nightly and limits out. He shares no info (sent us to a place that was nothing but oysters nearly cost me a net)We only get to go 3 or 4 times a month so we are getting desperate. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Get a new uncle
Sorry man, can’t help ya we shrimp the harbor side, but we always stick to relatively shallow 2-8 ft, some people stick to hard bottom, some people stick to soft. Closer to the Ocean the better (from what I hear) why don’t you take a trip down the Edisto River towards the Ocean and see if theat fairs any better
Bragging may not bring happiness,
but no man having caught a large fish,
goes home through the alley.
-Anonymous
You need to find out where your uncle is going. I would get the wife to talk to the uncle’s wife or better yet, go talk to Grandma and tell her the uncle is being an a$$ and needs to help you out. If he is going almost every night and coolers out, you need to put some pressure on him from up the ladder. Another option is you could tell your uncle you’d like to take him one night to watch him throw the net…you heard he was the best in the area. That should get his ego all fired up. The other possibility is your uncle is a big liar and he’s not getting any shrimp either. Good luck
You could also go all ghost recon on him and throw one of those hand held gps units in boat with him the next time he goes and set it to record the track. They make a water proof one with a color lcd. (not that I would ever have done something like that) Down side is it’s kinda high dollar just to get a shrimp location if you dont already have one. If ya plan a trip to edisto pm me and I will try to help you out with some locations there.
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Yeah the uncle is positively getting shrimp. His freezer is full and he was kind enough to send us a quart to rub it in. I did try the ghost recon thing sort of, I put a depth finder in the family boat that had gps but he was on to that. I found a few spots we are gonna try on google, but plan b tonight is to stalk him from a nearby cove…lol!
Thanks for the ideas though!
Drew
Try the mouth of Leadenwah or Privateer. Be careful of the sandbar at Privateer. It has been years since
i have shrimped, but those were good places.
Buddy caught 12 pounds last Friday off hos dock on bohickey, almost to church hill. They seem to like moving water. Lots of large shrimp. Whenever we fish there we free cast for bait and get 5-6 dozen large shrimp. He’s always baited during the day with the tide and done OK. He didn’t believe me about the night chit then went out and got 12lbs needless to say he’ll listen more. The uncle is your situation is a Di//. Just set up on the bank in between a couple of docks with room to move your poles. Make sure you aren’t being overly loud and running over your poles and that your putting out wenough. PM sent.
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Gobbler I occasionally go out of Rockport. Follow the creek to the river, giving the marker on that point a wide berth because it’s really shallow. Head upriver about a quarter mile and cross over to South side of river. THere is a broad, long flat there with a sunken shrimp boat in the middle of it. At low tide I’d set up in about 4 feet of water, expecting a tide rise of as much as six feet. Conversely, at high tide set up in about 9-10 feet of water. I think you’re better off getting as close to the river channel as possible, not close to the grass. Shrimp won’t be there til dark, usually, unless the water is really muddy. Expect shrimping to be tough in the riverine situation because the water can be moving pretty fast and will roll your net…I try to combat that by throwing downcurrent and having the boat back upcurrent. A bigger net with heavy leads is helpful, too.
Put in at Cherry Point landing. Go to where Bohicket runs in to North Edisto. Head about one-O-clock direction to the other side. You will see a small creek there. Set your poles about 3 to 4 feet deep just to the right side of that creek. Tide does not matter. I have not been there this year, but it has never taken over two hours to get a cooler. The size are med. Good luck