Getting ready for shrimping season with red clay from the upstate. This is a sifter we built to get rid of all the rocks, sticks, grass, etc. Been using this for red clay for over 20 years. It takes a while to find the right type of clay.
I should probably pick me up some when I head home for a weekend …
Bragging may not bring happiness,
but no man having caught a large fish,
goes home through the alley.
-Anonymous
Now that’s some dedication!
@ $6 dollars a bag the white clay will be just fine. Also the white clay doesn’t show as bad as the red clay if boiling the shrimp.
Mr Hardware
which one tastes better white or red?
Bet that red clay will stain up a boat real quick
fish today work tomorrow
Clayton Tile on Woodruff Rd in Greenville. Ask for a 50lb bag of Carotex ($8). Take clay and meal dump in wheel barrow, mix and repackage in pails. Add a little salt water as you make your balls and call it a limit. The Carotex is much finer than clay or mud. I don’t de-vein my shrimp all the time. The Carotex keeps 'em from being gritty when you eat them. I can appreciate your dedication to the way you were originally taught though.
I’m so excited I can barely cope,
I sizzlin’ like an isotope.
My wife told me 18 years ago not to use red mud any more, she clames she can taste it! It sure is easer to clean up the boat using white! Got to have valve repair heart surgery next week so I guess I will be missing the season this year! Good luck everyone!!! I use to get my red clay when using my ditchwitch. Lost a bucker lid while driving down to the coast in a rain storm, what a mess,pure Clorox wouldnt clean the boat.Took 10 years not to see the stains!
I have tried the white clay. To me the red clay “melts” down better and puts more bait in the water. Usually after 3-4 runs a fist size bait ball is about gone if you pull one up in the net. Sure is a lot of whining going on about dirty boats. This is nothing that cannot be cleaned up at the local car wash. My motto is if you are not dirty, you are not having fun…
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Originally posted by treemanMy motto is if you are not dirty, you are not having fun…
but if you don’t have to get dirty in the first place then one less thing to have to worry about…and saying that you should try Bait Binder, no clay, mud, dirt required, and you use MUCH less of it to catch the same amount of shrimp…try it once…
http://www.baitbinder.com/
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X2 on the Baitbinder!
Highway folks, don’t mind you digging up their road bank:question:
Have any of you guys ever used flour mixed with your meal ?
i use the white from the tile co. i like to take it and the fish meal and put it into my cement mixer. let it turn a while and then put it up in 5 gal buckets. it keeps a long time.
what is your ratio of fish meal to clay?
fifty fifty
186 Bone Flats Boat
140 Suzuki fourstroke
We have some white clay around our place. I sift it and mix 50/50 with meal. I do add a 5# bag of flour per 5gal bucket of mix. With the flour you can actually go 60/40 meal and it still sticks good.
J Ford
After using BaitBinder last year it is well worth the extra few bucks
196 KEY WEST BAY REEF
150 YAMMIE
I was out in my pickup a couple of weeks ago. Saw a construction site where they were digging a foundation. They were in red clay. Stopped and asked if could come by and load some of the clay. Guy had me pull over and he gave me all the clay I need for hte next few years, one scoop.
Retired - always broke – but better than working!!!
Say what you want about using red clay and fish meal, it works for us. Caught the limit on opening day near Cowpens in 5 passes on the rising tide. Size was mixed but the shrimp were there.
