Yeah, the one day we did the 3rd post in the front...I didn't stretch it tight enough on the side facing the wind.  If you get that side pretty tight, it is pretty stable up over 20 mph....but then starts the whipping much beyond the mid 20's.  3rd pole can be moved from one of the ones in the rear then and placed in the center.  
 
Man, whoever came up with the Shibumi has to be making a fortune.  The last couple years, all you could see was those for as far as you could gander up and down the beaches.  Should be working out licensing agreements with college and nfl teams, really any teams...all the ones we see are the same green/blue color.  
 
Those southern college alumni would eat up those college branded ones.  
 
For anyone interested. 
https://shibumishade.com/pages/our-story
https://www.facebook.com/shibumishade
 
Looks like US made, for now...hence the premium price.  They do seem to work great and it's great to see it was NC local college students that came up with the idea.
 
I can't believe these, or canopies, or tents like mine aren't allowed at any of the Myrtle Beach area beaches.  Yet, you are allowed the projectile beach umbrellas that just this week actually killed a 63 year old lady after impaling her in the chest.  
Well, I won't go to Myrtle Beach anymore since you can't be an "adult" and have a beer on the beach there without feeling like a criminal but that umbrella law is just another reason to avoid those beaches.

I’m not a fan of Myrtle either, but I have only stayed there once in a large condo area. I wouldn’t mind checking out more residential type beach house area, outside of Myrtle itself. Not sure if they are the same on the umbrella rule. I imagine that could possibly change. They probably want to keep the pop ups from covering the beach. Those things have had to kill more than beach umbrellas over the years or at least badly injure. We had one fly down the beach before and luckily not hit anyone.

I waded the Yough for a bit today. Kind of slow, but not too bad. I got 6 smallmouth. One was a pig. I didn’t measure, but guessing 18”. I had a lot of hits that didn’t button. Only one on a Senko and was the smallest. Others on tubes. Had a bunch of hits on ZMan Diesel Minnows, but didn’t hook any of the hits. Guessing some sort of crank bait or spoon with rear hook would have done well today. Even the tubes had maybe 50% hookup rate. I think the river is too low now. After so long of being too high…. Good to get out though.

Pork,
You ever fish jersey shore in late fall?  Son may have a dek hockey tourney in Egg Harbor Halloween weekend.  Just wondering if I should take some fishing gear just in case we get some spare time.
 
Figure stripers and blues may be running at that time.

Yes, take your gear! Pretty much from October until Christmas has fish. Whether you time the big ones is another story, I can never seem to do it myself! Far too often the big ones are in huge schools about 1-4 miles off the coast, but some will make their way in to the surf. There should be a bunch of 12”-24” fish though, which are fun on lighter tackle and I pretty much just accepted they are what I will likely catch. I personally like the spring run better, since it is easier…. If you hit it lucky, probably not if late November, when the mullet leave the ICW, it can be explosive. That is more October though. Pretty much once the water hits 70, they bolt south. You will see more blues then and some slammers at that. They are a blast. You will probably be looking at fish focused on sand eels in late November unless it stays unseasonably warm in the fall. If “normal”, it makes soaking chunks rather worthless. Might get something looking for an easy meal, but most bigger baitfish aren’t around then, so they aren’t really looking to feed on them. I think most bunker are gone by then too. More likely to catch dogfish soaking bait in the cold. They fight like walleye. Your shark gear might have them waterskiing reeling them in. Spring time, there seems to be much more overlap of what they are eating and what is showing up, so you don’t need to be as much tuned into what they are chasing. Most likely, the go to will be the AVA diamond spoons with the surgical tubing. Other tins work too, but the sand eels (not really eels) are long and skinny. Most tins that I have are more glass minnow/spearing, which are much shorter. Same thickness, just longer and they do have an eel like swim to them. The smaller fish don’t seem to mind the other spoons and often what I end up with. Guys will slam the pigs with live eels off the jetties at the inlets at 2AM. Work doesn’t allow me to do that. I’m not much of a fan of trying to walk on jetties in the middle of the day. I’d probably be swept away if I tried to do at 2AM.

Where are you planning to stay? AC inlet has fish, but sketchy as F on the AC side. I don’t even like it during the day, wouldn’t think to fish it at night. The Brigantine side has a small pier in the inlet, right across the bridge from AC. I slammed some blues from it one year during the mullet migration on a blue mullet popper. Every cast for a while had 18” blues fighting over it. I started staying at a place on LBI in Barnegat Light, it is called the North Shore Inn now. I forget the old name, but was run by an old angler and loved having fishermen stay. It might not be the same now. I haven’t stayed there in probably 10-15 years. My company won’t even let me stay in the mom and pop places anymore… Mostly 4 star places that they will put us in, which is kind of awkward when taking my gear into nice hotels. The inlet is pretty close and a weird diagonal jetty really close to the beach access for the hotel. I caught some nice weakfish and okay stripers there (not legal size, I don’t catch many of them)…. I started staying in OC if I was able to make it work to take my wife and kids, Wildwood once too. Other trips I just stayed near the airport and didn’t fish... There is a nice stretch of beach at the southern inlet of OC. I haven’t had as much work with 177th in AC as I used to. I get much more work at JBMDL about an hour north. With there I always stay in Toms River/Seaside Heights/Lavallette and do most of my fishing at Island Beach State Park. Even the last few times I had work in AC, I built it into some other work at McGuire and just stayed close to IBSP. Just more of my liking to be at wide open beach than in front of houses/condos. There is an entry fee, but worth it to me. I’ve fished Lavellette and Seaside Heights a few times and have actually done really well in Lavellette (a lot of jetties that fish well). I figured out some nice spots on the back side in the park, so that and the open beach makes it my go to. Let me know where you are staying and I can let you know some spots that I have tried.

Sounds like you had a good beach trip Eyes. Thanks for sharing.

Porktown
Yes, take your gear! Pretty much from October until Christmas has fish. Whether you time the big ones is another story, I can never seem to do it myself! Far too often the big ones are in huge schools about 1-4 miles off the coast, but some will make their way in to the surf. There should be a bunch of 12”-24” fish though, which are fun on lighter tackle and I pretty much just accepted they are what I will likely catch. I personally like the spring run better, since it is easier…. If you hit it lucky, probably not if late November, when the mullet leave the ICW, it can be explosive. That is more October though. Pretty much once the water hits 70, they bolt south. You will see more blues then and some slammers at that. 

Yeah, I prefer spring run too. Any advice on gear/bait for august-sept? Was usually only doing spring-early summer but this year want to give later season a try. Today ended up at nearby sports store and grabbed myself a pair of Stormr fishing pants https://gritroutdoors.com/apparel/fishing-clothing/pants/ for the trip. Folks there told me it's gonna be plenty enough for october weather so fingers crossed!

eyesandgillz
 Used all circle hooks...fish bites, gulp sand fleas and live sand fleas.  Pretty easy fishing.  I did use a fishfinder rig and a j hooked sand flea to catch the biggest bull whiting.  Bout ripped the rod out of my hand on the hit.  He gave us three big shark bait chunks and I landed my shark on the head section.

We didn't have much luck with the live sand fleas for some reason. Had our best success with shrimp and squid. Did you have good success with fish bites and gulp fleas? I have had mixed results with fish bites. 

Jtanner
Yeah, I prefer spring run too. Any advice on gear/bait for august-sept? Was usually only doing spring-early summer but this year want to give later season a try

I have never fished there then. My work gets too busy and I try to stay in the office. If I can’t, I am usually needing to work in the hotel room when not on a site, which is when I usually am able to get out. From what I gather, the primary target is flounder. That and kingfish/whiting and imagine some bluefish around. For flounder, look up “John Flinner fluke rig” on YouTube. That technique seems to work well. A buddy of mine has done trips to Cape May at this time and has mentioned mornings and evenings getting bluefish on mullet. There is probably some resident stripers, but probably not like you are used to in late spring/early summer. To me, that is the time to be there.

Pork, if we go, we will be going late October...I was watching some youtubes on jersey fishing and a guy was soaking clams on single and double drops and catching a few nice stripers mixed in with lots of dogs.  I can probably take 2 small rods and two bigger spinning rods (wouldn't bother with my big rod).  But, I need to replace my Okuma reel now.  I was trying to get it up in the car top carrier and it slipped out before I could close her up, whacked the ground and broke the reel seat on one side.  Composite reels don't take too kindly to impacts.  Don't think it is fixable. and it is part of the frame.  $150+ down the drain.  And with my son breaking the tip of a decently expensive spinning rod, it was a pricey beach trip for me.  
 
Egg Harbor is inland a little so I imagine we will be staying somewhere on the land side with the team so it would need to be a spot we could drive to.  It is pretty much in between OC and AC.  Anything biting well on the inside waters there, piers for public on on ICW there?  I will definitely need to downsize my rigs if we decide to soak bait and not cast. 
 
DPMS, yes, live sand fleas were the go to bait.  Didn't even try shrimp.  Had small chunks of fishbites on every hook, just so we weren't fishing on credit if a sand flea got taken.  So, didn't know if the bites were FB alone or with a flea.  Never really fished fish bites alone (used the gulp sand fleas for first cast if we couldn't find live ones right away).  I never go to the beach without fresh fish bites.  Shrimp flavor has always worked the best for me whether it was Texas, SC or NC coasts.  We did get good hits on the gulp fleas but can't say we hooked up.  I was low on small circle hooks so we were getting picked off pretty good by pin fish.  Son did manage to land a few decent sized pin fish.  Probably could have cleaned up on them and really small pomps with a 3 hook sabiki tipped with shrimp tossed into the wash but never got the chance to try it after my son broke my one rod.  
 
We did get a great hit that missed the hook on a 20/0 circle loaded up with 2 big pin fish and a palm size pomp.  Bent the rod over and took drag for a couple seconds before we got to it then nothing.  Brought back a bare hook so I assume the shark had just the tails and ripped everything off.