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t’s another steamy, sultry
Saturday morning along the Carolina coast.
The blazing June sun has not yet shown its
glowing face above the horizon, but Captain
Wayne Magwood has already been on the
water for a few hours, preparing to repeat a
ritual that has ruled his life for nearly 60 years.
Before long, he and his crew of two will guide his 68-foot
boat, “Winds of Fortune,” to his “secret spot,” where they
hope to find a bounty of the tasty crustaceans that have
defined Mount Pleasant’s Shem Creek and the menus of
Lowcountry restaurants for interminable decades.
As he has done since he was no more than a toddler,
Magwood is looking for shrimp, and he and his crew are
hoping for a huge haul that for a day at least will bring
By Brian Sherman
Sailing
into the
SunriSe
Now 63, Wayne
Magwood has
been shrimping
since he was 4
years old.
Shrimping On Shem Creek