Jolly Mon
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Some time ago I posted an aerial photo of what I believe may be a Union gunboat sunk during the Civil War. I have been to the site twice (it is some distance from me) and both times the same two old timers have been setting out shrimp baiting poles just to the west of where the wreck's bow should lay...and I mean just to the west...a matter of a few feet...the estuary in question has many, many miles of shoreline and I just find it odd that, of all places, they would choose to work almost right on top of my theoretical wreck. The last time I was there, I struck up a converstaion with them and they told me they had been baiting that same spot for years. They were not very talkative...I am sure they thought I was a rival fisherman intent on exploiting their "honey hole". I said nothing about the wreck, of course. Both times their eastern most pole had been sunk just 10-20 feet from where the bow of the wreck would be if the photo is correct...never further east and their remaining poles strung out towards the west...my new hypothesis is that some sort of structure draws the shrimp to this location naturally and that they are expoliting that fact and not setting poles further east because their nets become hung on "something". I am even more jazzed than before...
