Anyone seeing shrimp in any kind of good numbers in the creeks yet?
I have been fishing, but at the same time, I have been really busy and have not noticed and good numbers of shrimp personally. I might do a little searching for some Saturday night.
yes, brown shrimp are big enough for bait and widely vary in size, they’ll be in little creeks for another month before moving into bigger bodies of water. I’ve been able to get at least a dozen for bait every time I’ve thrown a cast net in the last couple weeks, sometimes easy to get 3-4doz. plenty of little finger mullet at higher stages of tide too.
Thanks barbawang. This indicates to me that the shrimp still are not all that thick in the creeks, but I am hoping they will be in a little bit early this year. As I understand it, the commercial season opened a little early this year, so maybe the shrimp will come in a little earlier as well. I think I’m definately going to go looking for some Saturday night at low tide in some of my favorite bait spots. I’ll let you know what I find.
2012 Skeeter ZX22 Bay
Yamaha 250 hp SHO
Minnkota Riptide 101
I thought they started later because of the cold winter?
Maybe I have it backwards. I’m not sure, but thought I read that somewhere. In any event, it is dang hot now, and it has been for a good while. I suspect the shrimp will be in the creeks in force by the end of the 4th of July weekend anyway. By the end of July, it will only take about 20 minutes to get shrimp on low tide. I’m just impatient. I’m still going to look for them though just to see what and how much is out there. Of course the minnow trap will be doing it’s job too.
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Originally posted by RedstripeI thought they started later because of the cold winter?
2012 Skeeter ZX22 Bay
Yamaha 250 hp SHO
Minnkota Riptide 101
commercial season started late in state waters, because the roe white shrimp hadn’t yet done what they normally do after our cold winter, which is spawn around may before dying at a ripe old age of 1 year (+ a couple months) and averaging around 12-20ct heads-on… if they’re not eaten or caught in a trawl first.
the brown shrimp that we’re catching in the creeks now were most likely spawned last fall and are currently between 200 and 60ct in my bait creek, i got over a hundred today in a low tide pool, (and caught 8 flounder on some of them). they’ll get big fast now that it’s hot again, and will move into larger, more saline bodies of water as they do.
the white shrimp that were spawned very recently will grow fast too, and be in the creeks big enough for bait in late july, and then i hope many will be on my baited poles in october, in size and numbers like we saw a few years ago!
I’ve caught a dozen or two the last few times I’ve fished in the Cooper, enough to use as bait. Size is small to medium.
I’ve been catching them too but strangely enough in the front of and beside some docks in about 8-10 foot water…had thirty five in a cast yesterday
miss’n fish’n
212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16
Ive been catching them in the creek off the Wando at low tide for about a six weeks. Some pretty large ones and in good quantity. About the size of my index finger.
A castnet will generally bring up five or six shrimp and one or two pin fish. The shrimp go in the bait bucket and the pinfish in the freezer for winter bait.
Vegas Dave