I think our current is too strong to bait an area. It would just wash away. In the summer time we hunt them on the fish finder in the main channel area and cast net them. sometimes in 12 ft of water. The summer shrimp run on the bottom. In the winter time we anchor up, drop down our lights and net the shrimp that we see that come in the range of our nets. Some get carried away with their light fields and long nets.
Nah, that tide swing in South Carolina is way stronger than Oak Hill/Edgewater area. I have shrimped many times in SC with poles and chum. I bet when the summer shrimp in Daytona or Astor show if you chummed em you could pull them away from the gauntlet of boats and keep from playing bumper boats, at least for a bit until one of them commercial guys saw a net full. My sisters floating dock in Beaufort had an 8' swing from high to low tide.
Stuff stinks really bad. We used builders clay mix, freeze dried ground menhaden and mixed that together very well and then used menhaden oil to make a playdo consistency then make balls about the size of softballs and dry in sun till rock hard. They sell shrimp tags by 10 to go on poles stuck in mud to mark your chum. Throw 4-6 around each pole and wait about 15 minutes and start at 1 end and work down line throwing net on chum and repeat. Rebait about every 3rd pass.
your contraption was fine until you put it in the water....lol
I would suggest to Clawtooth to go with the 12 volt light bulb design as Huntinslabs offered. With that type of bulb, it might
float on it's own not requiring any floatation = have to experiment etc, etc, etc ....
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