Opening Day Trawling

Wind was killer, steady blowing 20-25. Really limited where we could pull.
Caught about #50 of nice shrimp and 2 dozen Big Male crabs before deciding to call it an early day and boiling the crabs.

Today looks much better as far as the wind goes.

Excited to hunt some cobia behind the trawl boats

Im heading down to Dulac this afternoon to see what's at the dock

I’m venturing out this weekend to give it a shot. This will be the first time to do it without an experienced person on bored. Gonna be exciting if we can actually catch a few.

Question on pulling the trawl, the boat we are going in does not have tie off points in the middle of the boat. That’s what the other boats I’ve went in had. Ive also tied to the very front before as well and just bridled the ropes so that they don’t go under the boat while turning. Can you pull from the very back effectively?? I figured tying the ropes to the front was for better steering and allowing the net to open better.