4:22 pm Daily Log
We got the boat fixed and today was a great day shrimping off of Bulls Bay. We worked “The Line” which is an imaginary line that runs across the mouth of Bulls Bay…it is illegal to shrimp commercially inside the line so all of the boats that have a shallow enough draft will make runs down this line to catch the shrimp coming out of Bulls Bay on an outgoing tide. We had 15 or so boats working this area which is only about a mile or so long. It’s like Nascar Shrimping; go fast (2.2 knots) and turn left…everybody has their place in line and we all make the circle five or six times then haul back and pick up the shrimp. Today we caught over 500 pounds of beautiful 10-15 count shrimp…actually, they counted 15 shrimp per pound.