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Need a live bait shrimp net
Posted on 4/15/21 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 4/15/21 at 3:13 pm
Like an 8 foot trawl or something, we are going to have to catch our own on mobile bay. Need some holding tanks too if anyone knows where to get them cheap
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Posted on 4/15/21 at 3:18 pm to TutHillTiger
Just get a cast net. Way more versatile. When the shad are running on the banks, you can pick up a bucket full in two or three casts for bait. You're not going to do that with a trawl and you don't have the added equipment, expense, and strain on your motor that you would pulling a trawl.
Never tried to keep the things alive, though. I imagine they're like any other crustacean:
-cool water
-clean water
-don't change the salinity from the water you caught them in (don't drop them immediately into a livewell filled with fresh water and leave the intakes closed if you're going to fish at a distance from where you caught them, ESPECIALLY if there are any rivers emptying in the area)
-keep the water aerated
-keep your filthy hands out of the water. Use a dip net.
-remove dead IMMEDIATELY, as they'll kill the others
Basically, do what Deadliest Catch does to keep their crab alive.
Oh yeah. Don't forget to empty the livewell when you get home. You just THOUGHT selling a boat was hard.
Never tried to keep the things alive, though. I imagine they're like any other crustacean:
-cool water
-clean water
-don't change the salinity from the water you caught them in (don't drop them immediately into a livewell filled with fresh water and leave the intakes closed if you're going to fish at a distance from where you caught them, ESPECIALLY if there are any rivers emptying in the area)
-keep the water aerated
-keep your filthy hands out of the water. Use a dip net.
-remove dead IMMEDIATELY, as they'll kill the others
Basically, do what Deadliest Catch does to keep their crab alive.
Oh yeah. Don't forget to empty the livewell when you get home. You just THOUGHT selling a boat was hard.
This post was edited on 4/15/21 at 5:17 pm
Posted on 4/15/21 at 9:56 pm to TutHillTiger
quote:
Like an 8 foot trawl or something, we are going to have to catch our own on mobile bay. Need some holding tanks too if anyone knows where to get them cheap
Is this going to be like your annual help me kill a turkey post?
Posted on 4/16/21 at 6:21 am to KemoSabe65
When does the story about your near death experience while trawling come out? Along with your sage advice and dire warnings about the danger involved with this activity?
Posted on 4/16/21 at 6:41 am to KemoSabe65
Turkey is dead so is the thread now
Posted on 4/16/21 at 6:48 am to TutHillTiger
You guys are being serious pricks, did you unemployment run out or something?
A charter boat buddy wants to start catching own bait since most of live shrimp bait stores in Mobile closed this year. I told him I would try to help him find one and split cost and set up with him as will have more than he needs. We are basically forming a small live bait coop. Obviously not with u
A charter boat buddy wants to start catching own bait since most of live shrimp bait stores in Mobile closed this year. I told him I would try to help him find one and split cost and set up with him as will have more than he needs. We are basically forming a small live bait coop. Obviously not with u
Posted on 4/16/21 at 7:44 am to TutHillTiger
Here's something one of my uncles use to do to catch live shrimp. He's take a can of dog food and tie a string around it with enough line to let the can sink to the bottom.
He'd puncture the can in several places and toss the can out in the water and wait a bit, then start tossing his cast net to catch live shrimp to use for bait to catch specks and reds. Worked like a charm most of the time.
He'd puncture the can in several places and toss the can out in the water and wait a bit, then start tossing his cast net to catch live shrimp to use for bait to catch specks and reds. Worked like a charm most of the time.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 7:54 am to gumbo2176
Guy I used to work with from SC used to make balls of cottonseed cake and pogey oil and toss them out along the bank and place a buoy behind it. He'd troll from marker to marker tossing cast net. They'd load up on shrimp. But that was only way to catch shrimp in SC inside, no trawling allowed.
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OP LINK
Posted on 4/16/21 at 8:10 am to TutHillTiger
My dad had one that would fit in a Rubbermaid container boards and all. Pull 10 min drags so everything is still alive.
If you close to Houma you could check with Terrebonne trawl or Billy’s hardware. There is a special bait license to be able to pull out of season may be worth it depending how much you fish
If you close to Houma you could check with Terrebonne trawl or Billy’s hardware. There is a special bait license to be able to pull out of season may be worth it depending how much you fish
Posted on 4/16/21 at 8:22 am to bayoudude
If you need this thing to reliably catch a lot of bait shrimp you’re going to want a bigger trawl than 8ft
Posted on 4/16/21 at 6:14 pm to TutHillTiger
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You guys are being serious pricks, did you unemployment run out or something?
Tut, cool yo jets man.
We’s laughing wit ya not at ya
Posted on 4/17/21 at 12:16 am to gumbo2176
We used kozy kitty cat food in Biloxi or a bait ball with green light.
I had to admit this but two things I unexpectedly suck at from growing up on the beach, throwing castnet and frisbee. I remember how bummed my pledge class was at college, how can you suck at frisbee u grew up on the beach??? ( because I never really messed with frisbee)
The cast net thing is hard to explain, I have actually made a few of them in high school and we were required to learn how to throw a net in Marine Science. I barely got it 70% open for the exam. Always just a few nets and more people and I was always weakest link.
I know how to do it just don’t do it well.
Thanks for responses, going to rough year for live shrimp in mobile.
I had to admit this but two things I unexpectedly suck at from growing up on the beach, throwing castnet and frisbee. I remember how bummed my pledge class was at college, how can you suck at frisbee u grew up on the beach??? ( because I never really messed with frisbee)
The cast net thing is hard to explain, I have actually made a few of them in high school and we were required to learn how to throw a net in Marine Science. I barely got it 70% open for the exam. Always just a few nets and more people and I was always weakest link.
I know how to do it just don’t do it well.
Thanks for responses, going to rough year for live shrimp in mobile.
Posted on 4/17/21 at 12:01 pm to TutHillTiger
Gus' tackle in Slidell used to sell 8-10 foot test trawls, we had a lot of fun with that.
Caught enough to eat and fish with.
Posted on 4/17/21 at 12:56 pm to TutHillTiger
Brunson's net in Foley if you're over in Baldwin county. I think they custom make nets and have 8 ft live bait nets on their website
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This post was edited on 4/17/21 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 4/17/21 at 3:44 pm to TutHillTiger
I promise you can learn to throw a cast net. You just need to look like a weirdo every afternoon for a few weeks and toss it in your yard. Buy a good net like a Tim wade, black pearl, or barracuda, watch a bunch of YouTube videos, and sling it.
If you are going to get a trawl, get the biggest recreational size Alabama allows.
If you are going to get a trawl, get the biggest recreational size Alabama allows.
Posted on 4/17/21 at 5:48 pm to bigbuckdj
No reason to buy anything other than a Tim Wade, my 7ft net was like $115 shipped, he offered to do everything to "My specs", but I opted to tell him what my intentions were for the net and let him design it. It is strictly for bait, so it is sort of a hybrid between a shrimp net and a pinfish net. I don't think I will ever need a net good enough to target just shrimp or just bait fish... Tim Wades net is SO much easier to throw than the cheap shite I have been using since I was a kid.
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