Re: Limited out two days in a row shrimping.
In South Carolina, the baited shrimp season is from sept 12, to end of november. Only one person in the boat must have a permit. You are alouwed to catch one 48 quart cooler full (level with the top) with heads on, or a 29 quart with the heads off per boat per day (regardless of how many persons, or licenses in the boat), with very intense enforcement, so you do not dare exceed the limit. If you are stopped at a roadblock on the way home (we travel 200 miles to the shrimping spot) you can only have three days catch in your posession. They are very strict, and usually you will be checked at least once (this particular trip we were not). I witnessed one fellow in a boat, jumping up and down on top of a cooler full of shrimp, trying to cram in some more. When you get your cooler full, you can pour cold water on them (with the drain open) and as the cold water runs down through them, bounce the cooler on the deck, they will shrink, allowing you to make another cast or two with the net. On our last cast of the net, we filled the cooler, and had to throw a couple of dozen back in when the cooler ws filled. Man you never tasted "GOOD" shrimp, till you eat fresh caught ones. The ones you get at stores, markets, and even off the big trawlers at the docks, are not fresh, by the time you get them. If at a store, or market, those "fresh shrimp" may have been caught up too three weeks ago, and even laid for a while in the hot sun. The wife and I had shrimp and grits, and grilled shrimp from the George Forman grill ffor Sunday evening meal, and they had not been out of the ocean a whole day, and were iced very good since removed from the ocean.
