Catfishing at Lincoln Beach

[pennyfarmer]

I have often used 3 oz sinkers and large hooks for cats. The bait I was using was anything from the mess decks, but mostly chunks of ham. I was also fishing in the Cooper River in South Carolina from a US Destroyer. The tides and currents there would be vicious but there were brackish water catfish there that were a riot to reel in. Then after you hooked them you would have to haul them up the side of the ship about 20'. I used to pull a midwatch and then after watch and before morning quarters we would fish for a few hours.

Oh one day I will spin more tales of fishing while in the Navy. There is nothing like fish tales and sea stories, and when you combine them they can be the greatest tales/stories of all.
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