The ladies be sitting on the edge of the Crab dock.

They got their legs hanging over the side, they fishing right next to the big 'NO FISHING' sign nailed to the piling. They be fishing with cane poles. They catch little fishes and crabs, keep them in a bucket of water. Now and the a lady catch a big ole slipper squirmy eel. And ooooh they be screaming and jumping trying to escape the eel squirming around on the dock all slippery and slimy and bloody cause the hook be buried deep like eels do.

One time I try commercial fishing for eels. University of South Carolina Extension Service supply me with eel traps and how to do it instructions. I follow instructions build holding tank and soon sally forth catch some eels here and there, boy they be slippery things.

Couple of weeks go by and I have enough eels to take to the buyer over there in Moncks Corners (Yes they be Monks there at a seminary). So I deliver hundred dollars or so of eels. Guy say he send me check.

Some weeks later the New York Times has an article on the front page it say 'Eeling Is A Slippery Business.' article be about the guy I sell my eels to.

I have to agree, I still be waiting past twenty five years for my hundred dollar check.

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I love your stories ED
( but you already know that!

Maybe... the check is in the mail? No?

I be pushing seventy real hard!

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Thank you loftycity. Thank you very much, give me fine reason to 'Kick'up my story. And I be for sure you speak true!

Hee Hee!

180.. toothless old man..

On reflection of those times twas not in the 'New York Times', was in 'The Wall Street Journal.' That Billy subscribe to. Billy own the Crab Company in McClellanville, South Carolina at the time.

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Baby blm loves to go crabbin at Pawley's Island. She really thinks she catches them all by herself.

We lived there for a few months while waiting for house to be built in Myrtle Beach. We lived behind the Post Office on Route Seventeen. 1963/64 era. Wife's home town is McClellanville.

Ah! A baby crabber. My Baby Pat go crabbing with me all the time. We work hundred traps or so. She run the boat. She then about nine years old. She loved the fishing business.

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She be crabbin since she was 18 months.

buy her boat and motor, go crabbin for real, get rich. But I hear crab business been ruined since they re-divert the Santee River.

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