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« on: May 14, 2013, 01:40:58 PM »
Anyone make their own shrimp bait?  I’ve got a good grinder and instead of tossing my fish heads, fins, bones and guts I’m considering grinding it all up.  Anyone tried this?
Kind of like this but on a smaller scale:  :drool:  :EAT:

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Re: Shrimp bait
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2013, 05:19:46 PM »
That will work great. Throw in some dry cat food and canned cat food too. Fishermans platter or whatever cat food is fish flavored. The dry food will really dry your bait out so put something in it to thin it. Fish oil works great.

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Re: Shrimp bait
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2013, 05:34:59 PM »
we use dry shrimp pellets and add fish or shrimp oil and wet cat food and mackerel works great i dont like it too runny makes a huge mess and makes your boat deck slippery our consistency is more like oatmeal .

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Re: Shrimp bait
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2013, 06:12:45 PM »
A tip for your plan:

Take 20 oz or 1 liter water bottles and cut the tapered tops off. Fill the bottles with your fish-head mix (leave 1/2 inch of head space), top with a small piece of foil, and put them in the freezer door. Night before your ready to go shrimpin, take a drill and punch 3 or 4 lines of holes in the bottles and put back in freezer. Bring out frozen and put them in the trap frozen, they will slowly melt and disperse. When you pull your trap, dump out, and recycle bottle. No mess! :tup:

I use 20 oz bottles, put a fresh open can of fishy catfood in the bottom of the trap and push the bottle down in it a bit. Then I punch holes in another can and put it on top, pinning the stack under the trap lid. If you go with 1 oz bottles, rubber band the foil top to the bottle, otherwise you may have more on your trap then in it. 1 oz will be better for long soaks and 20 oz for quick sets.

Any of the other tips were all good additions also. You could also just add vegetable oil to your mix to thin it. Cheap and will suck up fishy in a hurry. Let it sit a couple hours before bottling.

Oh and don't tell anyone about this...our secret.  :chuckle:  When I pull them out, I tell people that they are my super secret "shrimp bombs" and the patents pending.

 
« Last Edit: May 14, 2013, 09:16:18 PM by Chase 1 »

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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2013, 08:24:16 PM »
Razor clam necks and guts also work real well for shrimp

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Re: Shrimp bait
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2013, 08:06:06 PM »
6 cans of canned red label mackeral from the store , 1 small bag of corn meal. 

mix it in a bucket, put it back in the mackeral cans and freeze. or use fresh.

check your pots within a 1/2 hour.

Oh ya dont forget the most important part, use your color fish finder to find blue/green bottom about 300 feet.  :drool:

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Re: Shrimp bait
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2013, 08:25:52 PM »
Old salmon eggs with tuna bellies = 1 pot and done.

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Re: Shrimp bait
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2013, 08:46:23 PM »
Might be a little too extreme, but shrimp LOVE raw sewage.  So if you're out there and forget the bait......you have a back up. :sry:

 


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