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MichaelOnTheClaraMae

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For those of you in the southeast, you know it is shrimp season. Although I have not gone yet, I did see a few people casting off the dock at Mariner's Cay (Folly Beach, SC) and coming up with what looked like small lobster. I mean these are the biggest shrimp I have seen in a bucket or on a plate in many many years. I have heard they are the best tasting this year as well.

We are still moving in to our new place here in Charleston but I may HAVE to find the time to to take the Clara Mae out and throw the cast net some this weekend.
 
Doggone Michael,

Casting nets from a DOCK! for shrimp? Shoot fire, we're down 300 feet with powered pullers on board just to get the rascals.

Les
 
Well I blew that one! Message became vaporware.

We do get nice shrimp here in WA waters -- 6-8 to the pound, and very tasty. Unfortunately many of the salmon fishing folks are switching to shrimping because of the restrictive salmon rules, and the limited non-commercial quota for shrimp is soon met. Electric or gasoline powered pot pullers are usual equipment on us older C-Dory folks. Pulling from 300 ft. or so is more excercise than many of us can handle.

We try to go early in the season and get what we need for the year - they keep frozen vey well. Yum!

Dusty
 
Dusty,
We want to come over and go shrimping with you when the season opens. Shelley got excited when you described the shrimp that you were getting. I know we're jumping the gun, but when does the season usually open?
Lyle
 
Lyle

It will be fun, and come join up. Shrimping is almost as much fun as salmon fishing, and almost the same challenge.

No better eating, and Shelley will love them. The opening of the season seems to vary year-to-year, but we should stay in touch on this one. The WA regs are usually out in plenty of time -- but closing times can not be predicted. Once the quota is met we're gone.

Cheers,

Dusty
 
:hot it was such a great day to be out on the water today. It was the opening day of shrimping today and we were out in force. we had to realy work at it , but were able to bring in our limits of spotted shrimp .
Tomorow is another day and we will try to fill our buckets once again. we have such a short window of a oppening that we have to make every day count. it will be down till Thursday and then we have th,fr,sat,and sun.
MMMMM MMMMM GOOOOOOOD
 
Rodger
Where are you catchin them critters? I'm planning on Hood Canal in May. 300 ft, maybe I should've got a motor for the davits.
 
Roger --
Man, you make those suckers sound so good we might just have to kick the traces and head up thataway -- looking forward to seeing you guys after the Powellfest.
 
Rog,

We did fine too at Lopez. Two full baskets (who's counting!)

El and Bill.

Get up here! Now! We miss you. Start of a great season, and it's so much better with friends around. And Roger is right, the prawns we get here are fun to catch and soooo good.

Dusty
 
Rock-C we are located up here off of Camano Island and Whidbey Island.
Yes you will be wishin you have a power puller when you have that much line out....lol....
there was a boat out there yesterday that did not have any power except for armstrong power and they were tired pups after the second pull. they left early and said they would be back tomorrow with a pot puller on the boat....lol....

Hey Dusty glad to hear you did well too. did you go over to Iceberg Pt or somewhere else?????
we had to realy work at it and had to make about 6 pulls tom get our limits. the best we ever did on one pull was about 45 in 4 pots.
there was a lot of Indian comercial pots out here two weeks ago and so maybe it is slow because of that.
we were finding them mostly around the 265 ft level.
 
Roger,

They should have installed a stop/go light for the boat traffic off Iceberg. Not long ago it was just Dusty and a couple of other boats wondering what we were doing. GPS BAaaHH.

One pull limit. Nice size, but the season will be short with all the boats. Two "lost" pots - they were float-down for about four hours on the heavy flood, but full. We shrimp off Coleville (SE tip of Lopez) but the current is messy at best and local knowledge helps.

I'm boatless for a while (Les is about underwater) so bring Sensei over to Deception and I'll go out with you and show you where.

Dusty
 
Hey there Dusty
OK by me.
we went out today and spent another day out gatherin them elusive spotted shrimps. we ended up about 3 short of our limits but had a great time. the weather was somwhat on the windy side today but the C-Dory likes that kind of water. about a 2 ft. chop all day long.made for some dificulty sidling up to the bouys to grab them.
Any Bad Day on the water is always better than the best Day at WORK!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHH
 
I was reading on the WSDFW web site that they have determined that the shrimp catch will be all filled by Saturday evening for about 5 of the areas. 8-1,8-2,9 , 11, and 12 I think.it will close to all shrimping at 9 pm saturday.
we get a grand total of 5 fishing days for spotted shrimp. what a bunch of B.S.
 
Well, thanks to Dusty for helping us out with some directions to the shrimp beds on Lopez Island. we had a great time. the weather was great and the fishing was interesting. we have a lot to learn about the currents and flow out there. we had one good pull and then as we were setting out the last pot I looked for the other bouys and watched as they slowly sunk in to the current. by the time we tried to retrieve the last one we set it settled under just as we were reaching for it....lol.... we ended up waiting for three hours for the slack tide to allow the bouys to surface. it was quite a site to be looking for your flags and watch one slowly rise out of the water like a periscope on a submarine....lol....
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All in all we had a good trip out on the water. we were hoping to have been able to get two pulls in early and then cruise on over to Fishermans Bay to see all the Brats but we had to wait out the tides instead :cry :cry
 
Nice shrimp Roger! Dusty's the guy that knows about Lopez shrimping and it looks like he sent you to the right spot for sure.

Roger, Cynthia and I heard you hale the C-Brats Saturday afternoon, but we couldn't make contact with you on our vhf. We missed you guys at Lopez but it looks like you had a great time anyhow.
Jon
 
I suppose you wouldn't live out the week if you posted the coordinates for the general neighborhood...At least some hints?

SENSEI":2pvjt3cs said:
Well, thanks to Dusty for helping us out with some directions to the shrimp beds on Lopez Island.
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I'd give coordinates but I lie a lot! And coordinates probably wouldn't help. Iceberg Pt. is a good starting place -- 260-300+ ft. of water and work east all the way to Coleville Island. Usually shrimp in 260 ft. plus, but you will pick up some nice smaller ones as shallow as 225 ft. Lots of pots out there now, but the shrimp move around, so a good spot today is not so good tomorrow. Hit it lucky for Roger, but I shrimped the same area the day before and got limits.

This is a "be careful" zone. Pots should be heavy and well-anchored - and your buoys BIG. I always try to shimp with less than a knot of current. Most shrimpers I've talked with have lost at least one pot in the area - and I've lost a few. Makes the price of spots about $100 a pound :sad

Dusty - still sad after missing Lopez.
 
Pat Anderson":1iegvw79 said:
I suppose you wouldn't live out the week if you posted the coordinates for the general neighborhood...At least some hints?
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Pat, if I'm not mistaken, I believe that Roger marked the good shrimpin' spot on the starboard side of the vessel Sensei.........tee hee.... :wink
 
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