E: Do you think there were more blue crab when you used to pole
skiff or less?
RC: No, there does not seem to be.
E: Do you know if they eat your net up, that cotton net?
RC: No more than they would now.
E: I would think that they would go through that easier than
they would that monofilament stuff. But they go through the
monofilament easy enough. After mullet season is done, what
do you fish for then?
RC: Some of them will go mackerel fishing. Sometimes we will
tie our mullet nets together and drift fish for mackerel.
That was about it. Some of them will go along the shoreline
and fish for sheepshead.
E: Did you do any redfishing or trout?
RC: You would catch a few trout. But those old cotton nets
would not hold a trout too much.
E: How about a redfish?
RC: No, a redfish would break it pretty fast, too.
E: Snook will break them right up, too, I would imagine.
RC: Yes.
E: So it would cost you a lot of time and money if you got into
a school of redfish.
RC: It sure would. You would catch one every now and then, but
you would lose more than you catch.
E: Was there a market for redfish?
RC: Yes. You did not get much for them, but you could sell
them.
E: Did you eat them?
RC: Hardly ever.
E: What kind of fish did you prefer?
RC: Mullet.
E: Everybody liked mullet?
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