So I don’t know a lot about North Bulls Bay. Always had one little sweet spot on South BB just off the inlet. This year no shrimp at all there. So I setup one poling just before low yesterday out near White Bank. Baited good, casted my rear off and had 6 small shrimp. Just after low I moved, setup, baited good and worked it for 2 hours. 14 more shrimp. From all the commotion around me and how long everybody was staying on their poles it looked like this was an off day. On the way in I noticed a small dip in the depth. What the heck. I had a few bait balls left so I anchored and tossed them around the boat. Pulled out my vienna sausage sandwich, kicked back and figured I was about to get skunked again. So I get my old 7’ Betts Green test net with the holes and do a cast. Holly cow. Could just drag it in. Never seen it turn on like that. Honest, I didn’t have time to throw more bait, get the bigger net or do my post health food meal Pepsi burp. 1 hour later (you got to stop when you one pole and put shrimp in cooler, put fish and crabs back in and clean up the bottom a bit) I had no more room in the cooler. It never turned off or slowed down. It must have been a wave of them moving through. Mostly large with a good number of jumbos. I’ll be back there Monday but you can bet they will never be there again. But man it was awesome while it lasted. Made all the skunked trips worth it.
Oh, when I got back the shrimp had settled out in the cooler and were down a few inches. How does DNR account for that or is it just what they see when you open the cooler. Never been checked so don’t know.