Was loading up to head to Beaufort with intents on fishing the PI reef and Port royal shipping channel. My Son and his daughter showed up and she asked to come, of course you can’t say no to many things a Granddaughter asks for. So I unloaded poles, MeMe put in some extra treats and headed out. Had intentions to go to Morgan Island but after getting past the Beaufort river and all the white caps headed to the sound hunted for some smooth water. Windy but beautiful day. Had something happen that has never occured with me before. While skirting the sand bar at the Coosaw river and beaufort river a gust of wind hit us head on and I thought I had hit bottom until I saw depth and bow rise. I throttle down and nothing but motor strain for min. Had to be wind pushing up on T Top. Then speed started picking up and bow came down. Wind was wicked. Never saw the first boat fishing.
Thanks, Fred. Great family report, July at it’s best, mainly good for family, not fishing inshore. At least the wind kept you cooled off, I remember some nasty no wind days in July and August, trying ti enjoy fishing at lakes and ocean, not any fun really to me anyway.
Now I can pick and choose much better the few days of fishing, primarily May and October, ha ha.
Forgot to mention the Dolphin pic, needs to be framed on the wall or on a den table maybe, VERY SHARP!!!
I sent this one in a bigger file. If you can zoom in on the right side of the mouth. All our coastal dolphins have the right side of their teeth filed down from forcing bait up on the banks and eating on the right side. I think Barbawing brought it up in another post. You can sometimes find them doing this in the smaller creeks on low tide. They look like torpedoes as the come through he shallow water by your boat. I can’t tell sex of one but this one’s belly had a lot of pink on it. Beautiful!
Very interesting on the right side of the mouth indeed.
Gorgeous creations of God, and SOOOOOO intelligent, they used to race me offshore when I was traveling about 20 mph or so, of course no contest for them. Once I took my youngest son offshore, he was a gamer, not a fisherman, but he just caught a (7.5) lb. Largemouth in his community lake. Finish the story, we were surrounded by Dolphin about 20 miles or so offshore, and he went crazy taking pictures, wish I knew where those pics are, so great.
That one was begging for food, I fed them cigar minnows thinking they only wanted small fish, but now I know they eat pretty large Reds too, and probably Whiting, Croaker etc. too.
Spent every summer of my life in Beaufort with my grandparents until I was 16. I love that area though it is kind of like a mini-Charleston now. Being taken over by you know who.
I’m sure you enjoyed the day with your granddaughter more than you would of catching fish…
The dolphin outside of Hilton Head are a big nuisance. Come in from offshore and dumping our bait. They would come up between the motors and put their nose on the transom. Scared to put the motors in gear. Finally got rid of them by spraying them in the face with the wash down. They did not like that.
Couple years I was about a half mile back in a creek from Little River jetties.
All of a sudden about 50 ft from the boat big splashes. 3 dolphins. 2 of them would push the bait up on the bank with their tails. The third one would do like you said and go up on the bank and get them. And they would take turns. Coolest thing ever.
I remember going with mom to the commissary. I think Roses was the biggest store around. At that time Walterboro was bigger than Beaufort and Summerville. If Dad would have only bought Seabrook Pt. Mom wouldn’t let him due to the sand nats… That was back in the Early 80’s. He had all intentions of retiring there. Oh well. Water under the bridge and tons of money floating with it.
Beaufort still has a lot of hold out locals living the good life on deep water. So far they haven’t had a mayor Riley forcing them out like What happened to a lot of local Charleston residents. I’m waiting to see what happens with Clarendon Plantation and the surrounding area.
