Went out three days in a row. Beautiful weather and great times with friends. We had 3 boats and hit multiple locations in Bulls bay north and Cowpens.
Had some luck on outgoing tide mid Bulls bay north side. We could see a lot of activity on sonar and each boat got close to half a cooler in 3 hours and then went totally cold about 2 hours before low tide. Stayed until tide turned and then another hour and still dead. Sonar had no activity. Huge shrimp.
Hit Cowpens on second half of rise same day and had good numbers but smaller shrimp. Maybe a third cooler. Came back there the next morning for the falling tide and still small shrimp and not as good numbers. There were at least 30 boats in Cowpens so should be some more reports coming.
Set up yesterday afternoon to the left of white banks in about 3 feet of water at low tide. Baited and worked the poles on and off over 4 hours and not a single shrimp. What we did was use the sonar on the channel/hole that runs next to white banks and there was a ton of activity between 6-10 feet plus some on the bottom. Total depth of water was 15-20. We used the sonar and a deep hole net and started free casting in the areas that showed th activity and started pulling 5-40 shrimp per throw all huge. After an hour or so they shifted inland and we found them again. Got within a couple of inches of a cooler before headed back.
My theory on the bay is that the shrimp were at a certain depth, maybe from fresh water or storm impact so either side of low tide most regular places were dead but the sonar depth was clear where they were, just not shallow and not headed up to the traditional flats to feed.
Who knows. Great weekend on the water!