tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post5792594422893500823..comments2024-01-29T03:04:24.219+11:00Comments on Flinders Family Freer: In seineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-2399132645577720742011-08-30T13:12:04.839+10:002011-08-30T13:12:04.839+10:00Quilly I never stop being amazed at just how fecun...Quilly I never stop being amazed at just how fecund the East coast of the US seems to be, even with all those people there. I have to wonder what it must have been like once. Or is it (as is often the case, even here on the island! that the skills have been lost by most of the population? My sympathies with the situation with your mother. What are the prospects employment wise on the coast? Wish we could have you guys here :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-25919652652419440482011-08-30T05:42:54.827+10:002011-08-30T05:42:54.827+10:00I love pulling a seine net. The neat things you fi...I love pulling a seine net. The neat things you find and the tasty things you catch. As we wait for my mother to pass away Chris and I have been contemplating moving back to the East Coast. She's favoring North Carolina but I can't get the Tidewater area (Norfolk)of Virginia out of my head. <br /><br />My Grandmother lived on the south side near the James River, my aunt on the North side near Yorktown where the river meets the Chesapeake. In either place a day didn't go by when we couldn't go to the water and catch something to eat. Particularly my aunt's house where off the dock she always had a crab pot down and it always had some number of blue crabs in it. (Callinectes sapidus)<br /><br />I was making the boast that we could always catch something one Thanksgiving...it was cold and blustery...and was challenged by a family member to prove it. Went out to the end of the dock and with a few casts got some bait, grabbed a pole and floated the 10' down to the mouth of the inlet. Soon I had some nice stripped bass. Just before the chill froze me!Quilly_Mammothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233071648647457818noreply@blogger.com