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.
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