Well, folks, I decided to punt today and give surf fishing a shot. Went to one of my favorite spots at north Folly today. Managed to find a particularly sweet sharks tooth (fossil), and when I got to my spot, I was delighted to see a rather sizable bonnethead cruising just a matter of feet from the edge of the water. He was gone by the time I got a rod baited up.
Anyhow, I’m just a bit surprised that I saw no mullet at all in the water, and the only hits I got were so small and weak that I only had 1 hookup (9" whiting).
There just seems to be so little bait around, compared to years past, and so little action. I know last year was a terrible year for shrimping, and this year looks like it might be even worse. I see some other guys on here that are doing OK but most of us seem to be really struggling.
Either way, it was still a gorgeous day.
“Sire, it belongs in truth to the Church of God, in whose name I speak, to endure blows and not to inflict them. But it will also please your Majesty to remember that she is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.”…Theodore Beza
The only thing I know is that we’ve had a lot more rain this year than last. Perhaps that has something to do with smaller apparent numbers of mullet and other baitfish. I have caught more dink trout and flounder this year over last though. Last year my average trout/flounder were larger. Reds seem to be biting pretty normal for me.
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We’ve had more rain than in the last 20 years. Salinity is way down. It will improve soon.
Capt. Larry Teuton
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I sure hope you guys are right. I am certainly shocked at the amount of rain we’ve had. Hopefully it’s not washing massive amounts of pollution from the upstate… particularly liberal amounts of political pollution… but that’s a different problem altogether.
“Sire, it belongs in truth to the Church of God, in whose name I speak, to endure blows and not to inflict them. But it will also please your Majesty to remember that she is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.”…Theodore Beza
We’re about 8 inches above normal for the year, and half of our year’s totals fell between June and now (20"!). I guess it’s just having a bigger effect than I suspected.
“Sire, it belongs in truth to the Church of God, in whose name I speak, to endure blows and not to inflict them. But it will also please your Majesty to remember that she is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.”…Theodore Beza
well now i have something to blame the now elephant size skunk in my boat on
and i thought i just sucked and was meant to deer hunt!