OMG, Ripper, that seal has been by the ramp at Washington park for the last 7 years, I swear to God, it's the same one we saw when we first moved out here.
We had 232 shrimp in one of our pots on Saturday. Two of us ended up with just shy of five limits for the day, wish I had made my boy and wife come along.
I've never heard about this structure thing you referred to my neighbor's boat had a malfunctioning depth finder that day, so we just dropped according to the nav. chart's depth marks. We just drop our pots in 300 to 320 feet of water. If you shrimp the south end of Lopez again, be aware that the current charts for the incoming tides can be deceiving. We had our pots go two miles on a max 0.66 mph tide one time. I usually only shrimp the last half hour or so of an incoming tide into the outgoing. If you do ever lose a pot on the incoming, they will usually catch on the ridge to the SE of Davidson Rock, or Lawson Reef if they make it past Davidson. A couple years ago, I rescued 18 pots for people in one evening. Everyone had shrimped the morning incoming tide whereas I waited for it to turn and got limits of shrimp as well as many happy responses to my phone calls of "did you lose a pot today?"
Congrats on getting a limit of big ones.
