Does anyone ever shrimp with lights around here? can u shrimp with lights and bait? I just notice the shrimp jump like crazy under my lights and come to it when they are in the water
Why yes you can. Night shrimping a best done at night in some areas of the coast.
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Originally posted by baitshrimperWhy yes you can. Night shrimping a best done at night in some areas of the coast.
Thanks!!! I have 4 led 24 inch lights that I can drop to 15 ft. or 2 lights to 30 feet and more. Let me know if anyone wants to team up and teach me something while using my lights. I will buy the beer!!! or coke-cola!
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Originally posted by baitshrimperWhy yes you can. Night shrimping a best done at night in some areas of the coast.
sorry man, I gotta bust yo balls a little on that one 
I really don’t see many people baiting and using a light to attract shrimp…but I do know they are attracted to light…might be something new to try, only problem is moving around so much might make it difficult to get them to come to the light in any numbers…
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Haha, I saw that as well lol. But I’m not going to bust their balls when they help. haha
I was thinking of doing the one pole set up and figured I might could drop my lights around them…? Idk. New to this whole deal. Cant wait to see me standing in my kayak launching the net. This is going to be funny!!!
My dad always used 12 volt lights on a 10’ PVC pipe shining down on either side of the bow when shrimping. I think that was just so he could see where the poles were and what he was doing. Accidentally grabbing a blue crab buried under a pile of shrimp is not fun! 
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BrGard - Are you talking about actually putting your lights underwater to attract Shrimp? No, no. I meant the lights are on the boat lighting the night so you can see what you are doing on board. Seeing your poles, your catch, the beer, you know - the important things in shrimping. Sorry I didn’t catch your underwater meaning.
I got ya! thanks… I just see these people in florida who use lights to catch shrimp. Didnt know if anyone around here did it and if it helped to increase your catch. I can lay them on the bottom… But I guess its a no no…
BrGard - Try it. You may be on to something. Last I checked our fellow shrimping buddies out of Fla, couldn’t use bait. Ones I talked to down there told me they are always trying ways to get shrimp in the boat. If it works, please let me know. I’ve got all kinds of underwater lights from my SCUBA days.
I might go gigging tonight. If I take a "beer"break I will anchor out and drop all my lights and see what comes. I travel with them out of the water and the shrimp jump all around me. to the point of if I dont check my kayak when I get home I will have a couple dozen stinking it up!! so I will report back. Is it illegal to drop bait now and not shrimp but just to see what comes?
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Originally posted by baitshrimperBrGard - Try it. You may be on to something. Last I checked our fellow shrimping buddies out of Fla, couldn’t use bait. Ones I talked to down there told me they are always trying ways to get shrimp in the boat. If it works, please let me know. I’ve got all kinds of underwater lights from my SCUBA days.
I wouldn’t want to have to explain myself if I got caught right now with shrimp bait in my boat/kayak/canoe/younameit. You probably won’t win that argument with Johnny Law.
even with no net?
I was told by DNR you can only have a net in your boat outside of bait shrimping season. Any one of poles/w flags, or bait is illegal. They told me that a pole that is usually used as a bait pole with no flags will get a lot of attention and discussion. Net - no problem; everything else - problem. Intent has nothing to do in their judgement.
Why they got to ruin my education in shrimping before season!!! But it makes sense… oh well
Few years ago I zip tied a 48" Hydra Glow Green Light stick, 12 volt to one of my Skrimp poles in BB, was no better than non lighted.
Dont recall Moon phase, maybe I’ll try again on a moonless night.[:0]
The inside of your boat should be lit as such. Alsmost as lit as I was crushing the redlegs that night. lol… look at all those critters!
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In regards to the Florida shrimp bait question, I was on the FLA DNR website today. Shrimp baiting is allowed, maximum of 5 poles and daylight only.
I lived in Fla. back in the 70’s and went shrimping south of New Smyrna. The way it was done was with lights and dip nets, not cast nets. A full moon and an outgoing tide got the shrimp moving. For some reason down there the shrimp would all seem to be just below the surface or cruising on the surface on their trip out to sea and the clear water made it easy to see them.
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Originally posted by mdl5155I lived in Fla. back in the 70’s and went shrimping south of New Smyrna. The way it was done was with lights and dip nets, not cast nets. A full moon and an outgoing tide got the shrimp moving. For some reason down there the shrimp would all seem to be just below the surface or cruising on the surface on their trip out to sea and the clear water made it easy to see them.
My grandparents lived near Titusville during the 70’s also and my grandfather would catch shrimp the exact same way. He hung a light off a bridge and would use a dip net to scoop them up when they swim by. He had a dip net that had a handle that seemed to be 10’ long or longer. I was a teenager back then, but I remember it well. I remember one night he caught 2 five gallon buckets full of what seemed to be very large shrimp. He was excited and said that was the best he had ever done. He would occasionally catch trout also when the fish would be going for the same shrimp he was trying to dip. This brings back lots of memories of my grandfather.
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We were down in the keys visiting a friend of our’s that runs a boat down there back in March. While sitting at the bar with a couple of the captains and mates that had just come back in from their charters, one of the guys looks over at me and says, “You wanna go shrimping tonight?”. I said absolutely, tell me when and where. My buddy (from Charleston) looks over at me and starts laughing and shaking his head, “You don’t want to go shrimping tonight. They dipnet those sonsof*****es one shrimp at a time!”. Decided to hit the flats the next morning instead…
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