This weekend my wife and I went to Charleston to spend the day relaxing at the beach. We spent the night with my sister-in-law who lives in downtown Charleston in a two hundred year old house that was built by slaves. Aside from the new pluming, electrical, and sheetrock the entire house is as it was originally built. It is a beautiful old south home in one of the beautiful old south cities. I spent much time imagining the people and what they would have looked like who built and lived in the home. I love history so this was especially fun for me.During the day I fished off of the Folly Beach pier while the wife napped on the beach. There was a very strong rip current so the water was murky which made the fishing difficult. Nevertheless, I loved every minute of it. It did make it hard for game fish to see the bait which is why the only things people were catching were the spotted sea trout, whiting, and sharks- many sharks like this Sand Shark my wife captured here with me. He was the second largest that I caught at around 10 lbs. and 30+ " long. He fought like a 40 pounder of any other species which I enjoyed immensely. After enough sharks taking photos of them is pointless.
Charleston is a great place and it's beaches and creeks are spectacular. I enjoyed myself thoroughly.
3 comments:
Very cool!! That would be interesting to think about what that house was like 100 years ago. And I'm jealous of you fishing in the ocean! I love salt water, too. Haven't gotten to swim in it in a long time though!
Wow, how long did it take you to land the shark?
Gallow.... that particular shark took about 10 minutes but the larger shark later that day took about a half hour, to include requiring every other person fishing to move their poles out of the way up and down the pier. I have gotten into many sharks so big that 50lb line would snap like sewing thread.
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