I saw the article on Live5news.com about the commercial shrimp season and it got me thinking about my lack of catch last year with baiting. They mention dry and unusually warm weather having an impact. My latest, probably incorrect, theory is that since we had such a warm winter in 2012, a lot the shrimp that we normally catch during recreational baiting season had already moved offshore by them time the season started. Anyway, just thinking out loud and on line. Here’s a link to the article.
http://www.live5news.com/story/22455646/commercial-shrimp-season-opens-thursday
Sooo, I’m hoping that the mild spring leads to a great baiting season!
Poor theory, the shrimp caught in the fall are the white shrimp spawned in the spring.
trawl landings were up 13% more than the previous year, which i think is due to the whites (spawned in early 2012) leaving the estuaries in late august when we had 9+ inches of rain in a couple days. nothing left inshore for baiters come september, but plenty offshore for trawlers.
just a theory.
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Originally posted by flyinghigh
Poor theory, the shrimp caught in the fall are the white shrimp spawned in the spring.
That’s what I was saying. They spawned early due to the warm weather and subsequently left early to head offshore.
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Originally posted by barbawang
trawl landings were up 13% more than the previous year, which i think is due to the whites (spawned in early 2012) leaving the estuaries in late august when we had 9+ inches of rain in a couple days. nothing left inshore for baiters come september, but plenty offshore for trawlers.
just a theory.
I’m betting on you…
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like was pointed out above, they left early due to rain. However alot of the white shrimp caught last fall were 3-4 miles offshore early in the fall. kind of unusual.To say that noone REALLY knows what they do would be an understatement.