Shrimp and Shrimp Pots

[FrankDown]

I know it aint open yet but I was curious if anyone here ever tried a shrimp pot off a dock?  Ont eh east coast you could use clay and a bone meal or fish meal and mix it for bait and they would pile up on it.  What do you use for bait here?

Do the shrimp pots work off the docks here or are the shrimp in deep water?  Ive never used a pot here, on the east coast a cast net is how we do it.

[popeshawnpaul]

Just little shrimp and only in some areas.  The good shrimp are the 4 spot prawns in 300+ feet of water...   

I use cat food and/or shrimp pellets...

[huntnphool]

I have yet to find consistant limits in less than 250', and will try to target 300'-330. Puss-n-boots used to be the ticket but there are all kinds of "recepies" now-a-days that work well. I still have half a dozen cases of puss-n-boots that I mix with other stuff to get my shrimp.

[50CalJim]

I do my Shrimping in MA 7 in the 275'-350' range. I can't speak for the other MA's but in MA 7 I can only have my pots in the water from 7am till 3pm If I remember correctly. So basically since Shrimp are light sensative Shrimping off a dock may not work.FYI I did a little experimenting last year & Friskies cat food mixed with jack mackeral blew away the pellets & anything else I tried.  Can't say that using Clay ever entered my mind though.

[FrankDown]

I used to go castnetting at night.  Id take bamboo and a clay ball mixed with fish meal usually about the size of a softball.  Stick the bamboo in the mud and toss the clay ball 6 feet from it.  Go further down and make the same thing all the way down the bank or bar.  By the time you get donw start casting and goign back and forth.  It is easy to fill a 48 quart cooler in no time like this.  I dont think its legal in Ga anymore, maybe SC either but this is how we used to do it before that happened.  The clay just held the fish meal.  We used to get the clay from a place that sold dirt and what not for baseball feild.  We had red clay there.  They usually wer ein a few feet down to 10 feet where we cast normally.  In the colder months duct tape around the edge of the cast net made the net open and stay pen for deeper water like 15 or 20 feet or deeper.  Sounds like 300 feet is out of the question then for that.

[huntnphool]

Sounds like 300 feet is out of the question then for that.

And dont think your going to pull that pot up from 300' by hand either, you may get it done once but you will be crying by the time it gets to the surface and you have an empty pot

[WAcoueshunter]

I've gotten dock shrimp (about half the size of spot prawn) in the San Juans by hanging a salmon carcass off the dock and dipping them up with a smelt net.  Haven't tried it or seen it done elsewhere.

We got our spots prawns last year in 150-200 feet.

[gasman]

We used to go at night off the piers. Crab, Salmon, and shrimp.


Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when.........