Fishing Gear Removal in Shellman Bluff, GA

Around Shellman Bluff, fishing gear isn’t a hobby that got out of hand. It’s part of the place, the same as the boats and the docks, and sheds and garages full of gear come with a lot of the family places out here.

If the gear is stacked behind an old cottage down at the old Bluff or packed into a shed under the live oaks, it comes out the same way: traps, floats and net reels loaded together, and if there’s an old boat, a motor or a trailer in the same yard, it can go in the same job.

People out here know exactly what time the tide turns without looking at their phone, and they don’t need a junk company explaining fishing gear to them. We aren’t trying to convince anybody that we know McIntosh County. Point at the pile, tell us what’s staying, and the rest goes.

From your photos we judge the size of the pile and the walk from it to where the truck can stop, and we bring the crew and equipment that fit. On the day, it’s sorted as it goes on the truck, wire and metal one way and netting, foam and rotten wood the other.

Oyster cages and tumblers are mesh that won’t stack the way you want, so a pile of them takes up more of the truck than it seems to. Loading that is our job, not yours.

If it’s gear from a working crabbing or shrimping operation, whoever books the job just needs the right to dispose of what’s being removed.

Send us a few photos and tell us what you need removed. We’ll take it from there.

Everything leaves on our truck, and where each piece ends up depends on what it’s made of.

Wire traps, steel frames and other metal that can be separated usually go to scrap at SA Recycling in Brunswick.

Old netting, rope, foam and wood too far gone go to disposal.

If an old fish finder or marine radio turns up in the pile, it doesn’t go to the McIntosh County landfill, which can’t take electronics; electronics from McIntosh jobs go to a channel such as Broadhurst, which takes certain broken electronics.