Took my teenage daughter and her boyfriend shrimping yesterday in the S end of BB. Put in at Garriss landing around 10 am to catch the falling tide. Got on a nice slope into the channel out of Anderson creek and set the poles. Short story, about 6 passes alter ZERO shrimp. A few croakers and such and we did bring up the bait balls several times. But not a single shrimp. We moved and set up 5 poles close to shore hoping to catch some coming out of the grass, again ZERO. There were probably 5 boats with poles set up and at least 10 deep hole shrimping. That should tell you a lot.
The good news is those teenagers were throwing some pancakes! I was impressed, especially my daughter, one pancake after another. I think she’s my go-to shrimping partner from now on. We had fun, but I sure wish they would have been rewarded w/ even a 1/4 cooler. I told them about the old days when BB was a parking lot and everybody still caught shrimp. I took last year off from shrimping because the reports were so bad, might take the rest of this year off too.