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Title: Shrimping in the San Juans
Post by: Ripper on May 19, 2013, 08:46:18 PM: Wow, what a great day for Rippette and myself. Check it out here.

http://www.rippersoutdooradventures.com/san-juan-shrimping-2013/ (http://www.rippersoutdooradventures.com/san-juan-shrimping-2013/)
Title: Re: Shrimping in the San Juans
Post by: Mfowl on May 19, 2013, 09:08:10 PM: Nice report. That was a loaded pot for sure. I can't wait for another go round on Wednesday. :tup:
Title: Re: Shrimping in the San Juans
Post by: Kola16 on May 19, 2013, 10:28:01 PM: Sweet! :tup:
Title: Re: Shrimping in the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on May 19, 2013, 10:39:11 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Shrimping in the San Juans
Post by: Ripper on May 20, 2013, 06:23:57 AM: Thanks for the info Loki. I think there are so many shrimp out there off Lopez that it may not matter about the structure. I usually like to put my pot's on the edge of a drop off. The tidal current will concentrate them on the edge. The same thing applies to the reef I was talking about. The water was about 315-320 feet deep the up by the reef it dropped to 330-335 before coming up to about 290'. That's where we hit the mother load! I talked to one couple at the launch and they only got 24 for the day. They must have had bad bait or something! Maybe they brought banana's on the boat.