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Man, talk about a slow day at the office. We had the boat strapped down with ice, squid, cut blue, and some of the prettiest fiddler crabs you've ever seen for tempting those finiky sheepshead. We got to the rocks off of Murrells inlet shortly after nine A.M., right at dead high tide. We fished every stretch of gettie inside and out for the entire day. Not a single bite to speak of. I even got a little queezy, i've never been sea sick in my life. 20 years i've been ruffing the ocean, and on one of the calmest days i've been out, I start showing symtoms of sea sickness. Doesn't that figure, the same day I don't even get a bite. Talk about adding insult to injury. I'd heard reports from a sorta reliable resource that the sheepshead, red and black drum, and flounder were hitting pretty regularly, so I figured it would be a good time to stretch the new Berkely Big game I just spooled my reels up with. Oh well, everyone has days like that, but i've never been skunked before. The only thing I caught was a small blue crab that wouldn't let go of the hook. Even that little pisser wasn't big enough to keep. How's the fishing everywhere else guys?
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sounds like you are doing by far better than I,
I am hitting fresh water, half ice half open. cant cast far enough cant launch a boat ice flows coming down pretty regular. Great Lakes area.
water is to cold, now 50 miles north and south of me is producing salmon. to far for me to drive.
but you know how it is, if they aint bittin today they were yesterday or will be tomarow...
By the way Congradulations on your new situation.
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I figure the water will warm up here in the next couple of weeks or so. The magical number here is 65 degrees. It almost seems like a little magical ferry comes down from fish heaven and sprinkles "it's time to eat" dust on all the fish. I've gone three time in the past 3 weeks, twice to the salty pond and once the fresh water pond and it was so windy that it was down right misreable. All three times I said to myself I wasn't going to try it again until it warmed up a bit, and I still ended up going back again. The weather may suck and I already know i'm not going to catch anything, but if i've got time and gas in the boat, it's hard to turn down that watery ride.
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I hear you on the "Magic #s" bro. On the West coast in SoCal we are happy with 62-65. That is our # for the better inshore bites as well as the YT season.[cool]
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