Shrimp?

[washingtonmuley]

Love the big prawns!!

[Angry Perch]

Love the big prawns!!

Nice!

[washingtonmuley]

Tides for the next opener look pretty mellow in the afternoon. Feel free to Hit me in a message if you have any questions.

[Afraiman]

Does anybody have any hot tips for the non-spot shrimp? going to give it a try for first time this weekend.

[Brushcrawler]

Does anybody have any hot tips for the non-spot shrimp? going to give it a try for first time this weekend.

Be ready to spend some time prospecting. They definitely aren’t everywhere. I haven’t found a good spot after quite a bit of trying.

[Jake Dogfish]

Does anybody have any hot tips for the non-spot shrimp? going to give it a try for first time this weekend.

Be ready to spend some time prospecting. They definitely aren’t everywhere. I haven’t found a good spot after quite a bit of trying.

I made a couple feeble attempts in area 11.  Dragged the pot out to 145 feet before dark and checked it in the morning. No sign of a shrimp.  A guy I know does really well in area 13 but fishes deeper.  Area 11 has 150 foot depth restriction.  Might need to find a spot on the fish finder first. 

[KP-Skagit]

Tides for the next opener look pretty mellow in the afternoon. Feel free to Hit me in a message if you have any questions.

As a kid I used to get coonstripes out of the eelgrass on very low tides. Might have some luck on the deep side of a grass bed. I have never dropped pots for them.

[Stein]

I assume you are using the smaller mesh pots?

I get them with the 1" pots in 7, back in the day when you had to measure shrimp but could use the small mesh I would get them wherever I got spots - Discovery Bay, 6, 8-2, 7..

My guess is the depth restriction is more of a limiting factor more than the spot.

I don't know the regs, but if you could leave them out overnight that should help a bunch.

[Jake Dogfish]

I assume you are using the smaller mesh pots?

I get them with the 1" pots in 7, back in the day when you had to measure shrimp but could use the small mesh I would get them wherever I got spots - Discovery Bay, 6, 8-2, 7..

My guess is the depth restriction is more of a limiting factor more than the spot.

I don't know the regs, but if you could leave them out overnight that should help a bunch.

I have a small mesh pot, it just takes up space in the closet.
 It probably is a depth issue.
 I have never heard of people getting coonstripe in area 11 though so I don’t have anything to go on.

[fishngamereaper]

In case you missed it spots re opens in 12 and parts of 7 on Wednesday.

[birddogdad]

I actually almost sent in a FOI request one year when it seemed pretty crazy.  It would be interesting at least to see what they do with the actual count to get to the overall projected harvest.  I'm sure it doesn't help when guys get busted with 300-400 each....

it really is a funny and frankly sad thing the way they manage these things.. was in south carolina for years.. the limits were a 48 quart cooler a night.. cast nets, on incoming tides on the base in Charleston SC. Hardware stores sold fish meal to make bait patties, we would cast net off the boat ramp edge. Was quite easy to fill a cooler.  plenty of shrimp. No way we (boaters) can impact the population so drastically here to need to count 80 shrimp and get a 3 hour window to fish them but it all sounds wonderful in olympia!

[Tbar]

I actually almost sent in a FOI request one year when it seemed pretty crazy.  It would be interesting at least to see what they do with the actual count to get to the overall projected harvest.  I'm sure it doesn't help when guys get busted with 300-400 each....

it really is a funny and frankly sad thing the way they manage these things.. was in south carolina for years.. the limits were a 48 quart cooler a night.. cast nets, on incoming tides on the base in Charleston SC. Hardware stores sold fish meal to make bait patties, we would cast net off the boat ramp edge. Was quite easy to fill a cooler.  plenty of shrimp. No way we (boaters) can impact the population so drastically here to need to count 80 shrimp and get a 3 hour window to fish them but it all sounds wonderful in olympia!

Have you seen how popular the shrimp fishery is? It absolutely can and will be fished to msy 80 (-500) at a time.

[birddogdad]

I actually almost sent in a FOI request one year when it seemed pretty crazy.  It would be interesting at least to see what they do with the actual count to get to the overall projected harvest.  I'm sure it doesn't help when guys get busted with 300-400 each....

it really is a funny and frankly sad thing the way they manage these things.. was in south carolina for years.. the limits were a 48 quart cooler a night.. cast nets, on incoming tides on the base in Charleston SC. Hardware stores sold fish meal to make bait patties, we would cast net off the boat ramp edge. Was quite easy to fill a cooler.  plenty of shrimp. No way we (boaters) can impact the population so drastically here to need to count 80 shrimp and get a 3 hour window to fish them but it all sounds wonderful in olympia!

Have you seen how popular the shrimp fishery is? It absolutely can and will be fished to msy 80 (-500) at a time.

never will convince me of this with 30 or so  the bubba gump boats off Bangor sub base at night with the big nets.. i am certain that one net would cover the entire 3 hour period of all boats in seabeck fishery for that day.. have you ever seen the night shrimp commercial fishing? yes i have seen the public 80 shrimp 3 hour process there... we the non commercial get the scraps of the process... this is just one location and one situation... kind of like this picture and me being limited to on fish and area closures for contacts.... not buying it

[Tbar]

There are only 18 commercial shrimp permits in puget sound.