Plan A: stay at the house like most afternoon/evenings and just have dinner followed by the kids doing homework…..
OR….
Plan B: go skrimping after skool……
Plan B sounded the most fun so….. with the wifer heading to a conference I thought the three of us would go skrimping and have dinner on the water. During the day I smoked a Boston Butt for dinner and once the kids got home from skool I pulled it off the smoker, wrapped it in foil and newspaper then we hitched up Plan B and hit the road for Green Cove Springs (GCS). It seems shrimping out of GCS lately is slowing down so I kinda figured we’d not tear up the skrimps but I did know we’d have fun trying for an hour.
I left my camera in my hunting pack so these photos are from my cell phone so the quality is a tad low.
Heading out
Kaitlyn throwing her 6 ft skrimp net
Casey with an average representation of our short time
Pork & river crickets
Cold beer & pork sammitches
Fun short trip
We started on the southeast side of SR 16 moving around throwing from 28 to 18 feet but didn’t find large numbers. The shrimp were large-just not concentrated and low in numbers. So we headed over to the northwest side next to Shands Pier. Here the shrimp were more numerous but also smaller. There was a line of boats throwing in 12 feet of water and that’s where we started. With the sun setting we broke out the pork butt & buns. As we did so it was kinda funny as the two guys in the boat behind us smelled the pork and yelled out “Are you guys packing ribs?” Too funny.
Effort: one hour of throwing with two skrimp nets; a 6 footer (3/8” mesh) and a 9 footer (5/8” mesh) and finishing with just shy of a gallon of mediums and a few larges. We culled the smalls out.
We didn’t slay em but we enjoyed some quality time on the water plus kicked some “butt” (pork that is).
Brian
