Went Saturday night in the harbor and Sunday morning in BB outside Anderson Creek we managed ~80 quarts.
Pulled about 36 quarts in 6 passes behind Ft Sumter, however we tried a new technique for keeping sight of our poles in the dark and found that $1 flashlights from walmart work extremely well. We were off the water by 10
We did much better in BB pulling in mostly large in 3.5’ of water at the start of the incoming. It all dropped off and we had to grind out the second half of our cooler after someone set their poles about 30 yards up current of us. I gave them the hands out, what the do you think youre doing multiple times.I guess I can’t really get all that mad seeing as we still coolered out between 8 and 11.
My question is how close is too close when setting up your poles if you have a conscience and should I have been more upset than I was?
I think the regs say 25 yards. In a very crowded spot like crab bank you have to run with that… In Bulls Bay, there is tons of room…
unless you’re trying to go along a creek channel like at Jack’s Creek. I haven’t seen where someone 30-40 yards away has ever really changed my outcome. If the shrimp are running then we catch them. I have seen where guys set up 4 yards away from me were not catching them and we were. I think 50 to 100 yards should be the minimum if there’s room. By the same token I’ve been setting out poles and only have the 2nd or 3rd out and had someone start their set in a way that jammed us up. Bottom line it’s all about fun, be patient with other folks, and be as courteous in your own actions as you can.
Nice haul. We’ve been 25-30 yds from next set in a bunch of places. As long as everyone is on same channel edge it still works. In the bay or sound you can get cut off up current. Had that happen too. Made the difference in full cooler and a 2/3 or 3/4 and have to work for them. I always have several spots marked cause of that. It’s a bummer but, it happens when peeps go to a saved GPS spot in a crowded area and don’t have some courtesy.
I was set up in the North Edisto one evening, by myself, when two guys started setting up less than 20 feet in front of me. Since it was 1 1/2 hours before the shrimp were going to show and the tide was coming in hard, I started to move my poles. They asked “are we too close to you? We will move.” I told them that was OK, I would move, knowing their poles would be under water before dark. They lost all their poles that night! Pay back is he!! sometimes.
25 yards is plenty of room. When I shrimp near friends that I know won’t run over my Poles, because they’ve been shrimping forever. They can pick up where my Poles end if they want 10 yards apart, or 10 yards on either side. When the shrimp run we will all be done in 45 minutes anyway. I like it when my neighbors cooler out too!
I’m with Rip, come as close to me as you want as long as we both have space to maneuver and to swap lies in between passes…that’s part of the fun, for me anyway
I’m of the same mind… Just don’t jam me up…as far as I can tell someone being close hasn’t changed the shrimp count
that wouldn’t have changed whether they were there or not. I’ve had folks up and down current at the same time and still
caught shrimp. That’s the nature of the beast if you go to crab bank on a bust night.
The bigger issue at the CB is the people that show up 5 minutes before sunset and decide to group themselves with everyone else. If I am showing up late I do not expect to get prime shrimping location. Everyone who is there early layers themselves in perfectly.
Now I agree on that lady friend. It does stink when I get there at 4, and Johnny shows up at 7:15 and sets his poles between me and a friend who are 15 yards apart. You’ve got to give more room over here, because the current rips thru. I haven’t shrimped there in 3 years though.
