Cracker Larry you have to be my favorite poster and informative posts like this are why I love this site. I love how you will share information that must have took you countless time and effort to acquire. Thank you, I personally have gained much from your posts.
I have a salt pond that we fish sometimes… Killer fishing!
So much history in this area, I love how often I am surprised by it!
“mr keys”
Sorry Cracker but I would have kept the spear! I’ve got enough Cherokee blood in me to ward off any bad moe joe.
Love the ancient boga grips in the pick!
I spend some time out on a piece of property on Frip and one of the owners has some old aerial photo’s of the area. We’ve spoted several old fishing traps as you’ve explained that are covered now. We regularly fish one that we’ve had confirmed as man made with a massive oyster wall still intact that you can follow quit a ways on a big negative tide.
The area around Capers, Pritchard, Fripp, and Hunting Island Has changed so much over the last 60 years. It’s really amazing how our coast changes and covers things while it exposes others. I still find it funny how shore front beach home owners get mad as the coast changes like it has for Eons
Have you used the Google feature that alows you to go back in time just a little bit? This feature will be really cool in another 20 years or so, if I’m still alive.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, headed to the kids house to watch Carolina and then Clemson. It’s a house divided, me I like Clemson ok as long as they are not playing Carolina!
“Gun’s don’t kill people, it’s mostly the Bullets”
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Sorry Cracker but I would have kept the spear!
OK with me, those spirits can live on your mantle, just not on mine. I can’t do it 
I’ve got some Cherokee in me also and I ain’t messing with them:smiley:
I can’t forget my Daddy always telling me, boy that’s robbing from the dead, grave robbing, you don’t steal from a cemetery. Those places don’t belong to us, that stuff doesn’t belong to us. If everybody took something, there would be nothing left for us to see.
Jimmy Buffet, on Daufuskie Island…
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Now I realize who killed the Prince of Tides How can you tell how it used to be When there's nothing left to seeHeaven knows but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides
How can you tell how it used to be
When there’s nothing left to see
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Love the ancient boga grips in the pick!
They were ancient in the picture:smiley: And when is the last time you saw a wood handle gaff in a tackle shop?
Have a great weekend yourself, the weather is beautiful for doing anything, except offshore fishing.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
That pic is so cool and yes it seems you and my daddy could share many a story or two as he would say…and I would love to be there to listen in … Hey…you have a bit of a chuck norris look about you in that pic too…your nickname isnt “walker” is it?? haha…thanks so much for sharing with us. I too know where a few indian shell mounds are.They are neat things to see. Everything makes me wonder. I see a old piece of old wooden boat sticking out of a bank and I wonder the story of it and who it belonged to…and how it got there. this place we live in is so special as are the people who remember and respect the old days and treasure what they have learned about it. People need to take more time to talk to the people who grew up “back in the day”…sit back and listen…and learn. When they are gone so too will be their memories of times past and their stories. Thank you for telling us about this and of times shared with your daddy.
miss’n fish’n
212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16
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I see a old piece of old wooden boat sticking out of a bank and I wonder the story of it and who it belonged to..and how it got there.
I think you and I are soul mates There are so many fascinating things in our marshes and islands. I know where there are old revolutionary war forts, old civil war forts, cannons in the mud, old Gullah camps, old moonshine camps from prohibition days and old smuggling camps from the square grouper days, smoke GA seafood …lots of cool stuff to explore out there if you take the time to look. Take all those yankee artifacts you can find, and watch out for snakes!
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When they are gone so too will be their memories of times past and their stories. Thank you for telling us about this and of times shared with your daddy.
That’s why I share. What I know about the river took me 60 years to learn with a lot of help. I was taught a lot of it by my Dad and a lot of other old watermen who did it for 60 years before me, and my granddad who did it for 60 years before them. If a person started from scratch today with no help at all and worked at it every day, it would take 3 lifetimes to learn the things I know about the water.
Not many of us left who have stored several generations of river knowledge. It won’t do me a bit of good when I’m gone. Some things I’ll never tell, the risk of exploitation is too high. Other things I’m happy to be able to share
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
Wow. I have not been able to get on here and read for a couple days and tonight I see this. This is absolutely, by a mile, my favorite post/topic since I have been on here and that includes a few thousand of older ones I have read through. Thanks so much, Capt. Larry, for sharing your knowledge on here. It seems like you have had a spectacular life of learning, and I hope you are passing it along to some younger men to carry forward. Coming from a young guy, the upcoming generation doesn’t show a lot of promise in terms of producing men like you and Penny’s dad. I hope I get the chance to meet you someday soon. Thanks again. I’ll now be on Google Earth all night 