Now It's Nancy and Sharks & Bill With A Broken Trolling Motor

6.12.15

We headed out mid morning to try our trout and redfish holes.  Three dozen shrimp were swimming in our bait bucket after launching the cast net a few times off the dock yesterday on low tide.

We started at the trout hole, as the tide was heading out.  As usual, the water was dingy from the outflow of the tide through the marshes and creeks.  Nothing was there so we headed up to where we caught a few trout last year.

A big yacht was coming down the inter coastal water way as we ducked behind an island to avoid the waves.

As we turned to come back out, a combination of outgoing tided and an oyster bar is going to test Minn Kota's lifetime warranty on their composite shafts.

 It is busted all the way through and Bill is a happy boy.

We slid over to the redfish hole and Nancy hooked up on a Atlantic Sharp Nose shark.

I decided to throw the cast net for some finger mullet that were swimming around the boat.

One short throw proved that redfish are all around us, if we can get them to bite.

An over slot 25" red came in thrashing in the bait net along with a nice sized mullet.

Oh well, I may have to start resorting to this method if the hook and line doesn't start coming through soon.

We headed down below the bridge and tried another creek mouth.

Nancy hooked up immediately and landed another shark, but the best was yet to come as a bonnet head shark came boat side.  

That ruler is 36" in the background so you get the picture.

I wanted Nancy to hold it up, but her and sharks don't get along I guess.

Gonna have to learn how to eat shark soon!

Andy and the Shark

6.6.15

Hunter and his bud Andy came down to fish Saturday.  Our goal was to put Andy on a shark in the Broad River.  I don't think he caught any while in school in New Orleans, so I thought it would be a good "welcome to South Carolina" gesture.

The bait is in good now.  Hunter nabbed some shrimp at the dock on low tide Saturday morning.

He captured about two dozens shrimp of our dock. He also netted a bunch of finger mullet and some nice larger mullet in a creek inlet below the old fort on the Beaufort River.  Here is Hunter gathering some shrimp.

We headed down to the Broad and fished a couple of rips.

Hunter got a shark and then Andy had his rod go off.  But, he couldn't get it out of the gunnel rod holder as the shark was pulling so hard the rod was anchored in the hole, no matter how hard Andy pulled.  It broke off after screaming the drag for a few seconds.

He finally got his chance when his rod started dancing and he eased into his circle hook set.

He finally got this toothy fellow aboard.

It was hard to pick who had the nicer teeth.

We quit fishing for bottom dwellers as the tide topped off and boated to the tip of Dawes Island to look around and maybe luck into some eating fish, but to no avail.

We saw turtles, rays and horseshoe crabs, but nothing wanted to jump in the boat.  So, we made the cruise back up the river to get in before the rains arrived.

Another pretty day on the water in Beaufort.