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Low country Red Trout Celebrity Classic Fishing Tournament
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October 4
Fall Surf Fishing Seminar
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October 5
Surf Fishing with Capt. Ben Floyd
The Charleston Angler
October 6
Trout Seminar
Hanckel Marine at Sportsman Island
October 13
Southern Appalachian-Mountain Trout Fishing
The Charleston Angler
October 17
Beginner Fly fishing With Capt. John Irwin
The Charleston Angler
October 20
Working Artificials for Fall Trout Bite with Capt. Tom
Siwarski
The Charleston Angler
November 9
Tying Winter Redfish Flies with Capt Mad Mike Benson
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Trident Fishing Week 46 |
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Recipe of the Week |
Lowcountry Style Shrimp
& Grits
Ingredients:
4-cups canned low salt chicken broth
1-cup stone ground grits
3-tablespoons butter
2-cups shredded cheddar cheese
1-pound shrimp peeled and de-veined
4-teaspoons lemon juice
2-tablespoons chopped parsley
1-cup thin sliced scallions
Directions:
Bring chicken broth to boil and add grits. Cook for
about 20 to 25-minutes. Remove from heat and stir in
butter and cheese. Fry bacon in skillet until brown.
Remove and drain. Fry shrimp in bacon grease until
pink. Drain off excess grease. Add lemon juice,
chopped bacon, scallions, and parsley. Sauté for
3-minutes. Serve shrimp over grits. |
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10.1.2009 Volume X Issue #33 |
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This Week's Article |
Helping
Out
Late Sunday afternoon I took my dogs Remington, a
3-year old Golden Retriever, and Geechie, a 5-year old Boykin
Spaniel, out to the south end of Morris Island to run and swim on
the outer sand bar. I anchored my jon boat in Lighthouse Inlet with
both a stern and bow anchor to keep it out in deep water as the tide
was falling. As we climbed out the boat I noticed another jon boat
anchored in the gulley up by the main beach. With the tide falling I
knew their boat would be high and dry with in the next hour, but I
saw some folks nearby and assumed they were watching the tide.
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This Week's News
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CCA Files Lawsuit to
Stop Gulf Grouper Giveaway
“Fundamentally flawed” catch share program a threat to angling
HOUSTON, TX – Coastal Conservation Association
(CCA) has filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Fort Myers,
Florida, challenging the adoption and implementation of Amendment 29
to the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Management Plan approved by United
States Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke on August 30. Amendment 29
gives away a majority share of Gulf grouper to the commercial
fishing industry through a catch share program.
“CCA has stated from the beginning that this management
action is fundamentally flawed,” said Chester Brewer, chairman of
the CCA National Government Relations Committee. “In moving forward
with Amendment 29, the federal government has disregarded multiple
provisions in the Magnuson Stevens Act designed to govern the
impacts of such action on other participants in the fishery. The
only ones considered in this amendment are the commercial
fishermen.”
Catch share systems bestow a percentage of a public
fishery resource to a select group of commercial fishermen, based on
their catch history, to harvest for their own personal gain. The
commercial entities pay nothing back to the public for the permanent
property right to harvest a public resource, but catch share systems
are nonetheless being emphasized in federal fisheries as a way to
reduce overcapacity and improve economic efficiency in the
commercial sector. CCA has contended that in fisheries where there
is a large and growing recreational sector, exclusive fishing rights
proposals maximize benefits to the commercial fishing industry while
ignoring the participation and beneficial economic impacts of
recreational fishing.
“In more than 30 years of practice in fisheries law, I
have not seen a more arbitrary action than this one,” said Robert G.
Hayes, CCA general counsel. CCA has asked for an expedited hearing
and expects the government to answer the lawsuit within the next 60
days. “We are going to proceed as quickly as the court will allow to
prevent the implementation of this egregious decision.”
To see a copy of the official comments CCA submitted to
the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council on Amendment 29 in
June 2009, visit the Catch Share section of the CCA Newsroom at
www.JoinCCA.org
Gulf of Mexico - NOAA
Scientists Catch Rare Giant Squid
Scientists from NOAA Fisheries Service have confirmed
the capture of a giant squid, while they were conducting research
off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. This is only the
second known giant squid obtained from the Gulf of Mexico; the first
was collected in 1954 off the Mississippi Delta where it was found
floating dead at the surface. The latest giant squid was collected
on July 30, 2009, during a 60-day scientific study where scientists
from NOAA's Southeast Fisheries Science Center and the Department of
the Interior's Minerals Management Service were studying the
availability and diversity of sperm whale prey. The scientists were
aboard the NOAA research vessel Gordon Gunter when the squid was
caught in a trawl pulled behind the research vessel at a depth of
more than 1,500 feet.
The giant squid was preserved and sent to the
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum for Natural History for
further study. It measures just over 19½ feet long and weighs more
than 103 pounds. For more information, read
NOAA
news release
Gulf of Mexico - NOAA
Cracks Down on Illegal Charter Boat Operations
After receiving multiple complaints about allegedly
illegal charter boat trips undercutting legal businesses, undercover
agents with NOAA's Office for Law Enforcement and state special
operations divisions from Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas
chartered trips on vessels across the Gulf of Mexico and documented
numerous violations for vessels operating without federal charter
boat moratorium permits. Other federal fisheries violations were
also documented during the one-year operation, including undersize
fish, harvesting fish during a closed season, filleting fish at sea,
concealing fish from enforcement, and failure to use venting tools,
dehookers and circle hooks to fish for reef fish. NOAA's Office of
General Counsel has sent notices of violation and assessment to
owners and operators of 15 charter boats, detailing alleged
violations of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act.
Anyone with information regarding illegal charter
fishing should contact the national hotline at 1-800-853-1964. For
more information, read the
NOAA
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Tide Chart |
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1 Thursday |
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12:20AM LDT 0.9 L |
06:22AM LDT 5.5 H |
12:36PM LDT 0.9 L |
06:53PM LDT 5.8 H |
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Friday |
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01:00AM LDT 0.7 L |
07:05AM LDT 5.8 H |
01:20PM LDT 0.7 L |
07:33PM LDT 5.8 H |
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3 Saturday |
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01:38AM LDT 0.5 L |
07:46AM LDT 6.0 H |
02:03PM LDT 0.6 L |
08:11PM LDT 5.8 H |
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4 Sunday |
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02:16AM LDT 0.3 L |
08:24AM LDT 6.2 H |
02:45PM LDT 0.6 L |
08:48PM LDT 5.7 H |
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The Final Word |
Weather
has been quite suitable for fishing this week. Nice to be
able to get on the water and not get soaking wet with sweat.
Better carry the bug stray with you though. I fished for a
short while on Saturday afternoon in the Folly River. I
quickly figured out my AM antenna was not hooked up on my
boat radio and therefore missed most of the 4th quarter of
the Clemson game. As it turns out I really did miss anything
at all, but that is another story. I fished with a soft
plastic jerk bait, managed to loose one nice Flounder at the
boat and had a few other strikes but no luck. As we roll
into the first few days of October we have some nice 6-foot
plus tailing tides on the way with the full moon. Weedless
gold spoons, soft plastics, Gulp Peeler Crabs or some live
shrimp under a cork are the ticket for the Reds in the
grass. With water temperatures still holding in the upper
seventies to low eighties and the mullet schooling, Tarpon
action remains good.
Offshore action remains good. The Dolphin bite is
stable, the Wahoo bite has been great, and we are heading
into prime time for sailfish. Get out and get on em’.
Tight
lines…
Captain Tim Pickett
CharlestonFishing.Com
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