Fishing & Shrimping

[Bushman]

Sorry OMD that your area has so few openings. Today in the shed rather than working on stillin I am gearing up my shrimping and halibut gear as May is the start of both. Shrimping this year we have three four day openings so will be spending my Wednesday -Saturdays out at my friends cabin in the San Juans that is 5 minutes to the shrimping area and about a 45 minute to an hour run to the Halibut banks.

[Coyote]

Rub that in will ya!
Coyote

[35mastr]

Salmon season just opened here and they are getting limits before noon

[stxhunter]

Good Luck

[BoisBlancBoy]

Every lake near me still has over a foot of ice on them yet! Enjoy your fishing!

[Halfbaked]

I can eat my weight in shrimp. Wife won't go to an all you can eat shrimp fest. If she does she brings a book. No kiddn.

[googe]

Jet setting around the country, distillery tours, cruises, and now fishing!. Your life must suck bushman! . Mmm shrimp, love shrimp!, we get big freshwater shrimp in north aus here, best I've ever had!. What type do you get bushman, was just looking at the varieties you have there, lots of them!.

[S-Cackalacky]

Round where I live now, we buy our shrimp off the back of a converted school bus. I spent my late teens and early adult life living about 1/4 mile from a huge fleet of shrimp boats. Some things you just fail to consider when you move away from the coast.

My older brother's best friend's parents ran the processing facility for the shrimping fleet. He would go down to the packing house and score 2 five lb boxes of shrimp for $5. Mamma would steam them with Old Bay seasoning and serve them in a big family style bowl in the middle of the table. She made fresh yeast rolls and fresh cut french fried potatoes. We would eat shrimp til we couldn't stuff another one in our mouth.

Damn, I like me some shrimp.

[Bushman]

Here is how I am setting up my pots, they go in 450' of water so I use a puller with 600' of line. When processing the shrimp the heads get dunked in fish oil and go in a mesh bag for mooching halibut. My pots are commercial and weigh about 35 lbs. I use a 5 lb drag anchor. Usually on a 4 day opening in Washington we are allowed 80 shrimp per person per day. You can use 2 pots per person with a maximum 4 pots on your boat. In Canada you are allowed 200 shrimp per person per day. I am usually in a heavier current area than the protected waters Olympic MountainDew fishes.

The spot prawns (shrimp) are between 7-9" in our area.

[Halfbaked]

Are you saying 7 inch -9 inch shrimp? In my neck of the woods we call that lobster. WOW!

[White_Lightning_Rod]

Wow 9" that is huge! Yum yum yum!

Thats what she said LOL LOL


sorry couldn't help myself

[Truckinbutch]

You guys are making me feel soooo uncultured and deprived I'm gonna develop a complex and have to have therapy because I don't have the privilege of sharing such bounty .
I'm back in my corner now . Curled in a fetal position while rubbing my nose with a corner of my comfort blanket and lamenting how poorly life has been to me

[Bushman]

Spot shrimp get up to 10" but I usually get them in the 7-9" range. Depending on where you live some call them prawns.

Truckinbutch
You guys are making me feel soooo uncultured and deprived I'm gonna develop a complex and have to have therapy because I don't have the privilege of sharing such bounty .
I'm back in my corner now . Curled in a fetal position while rubbing my nose with a corner of my comfort blanket and lamenting how poorly life has been to me

Since I've retired it has become my full time job feeding the family!

[Stainless dude]

Don't forget to tell them that crabbing opens in a couple of months bushy..

[Bushman]

Don't forget to tell them that crabbing opens in a couple of months bushy..

Yep, starting to collect crab bait and July Salmon opens up.

[OlympicMtDoo]

I've had a busy week Bushman this is the first chance I've had to relax a bit. I am sitting at the computer looking at the most beautiful sight that one can imagine. The snow capped Olympics, with only about a 25% snow cap for this time of the year I might add. I can't quite see the waters of Hood Canal but I can see the early morning fog layer rising from it. The most beautiful thing about the view from OMD mountain is what I can't see......buildings or any sort of civilization, if I look to my right out the side window I can see the lake with a few houses on it but other than that it's Mt Rainier and the Cascades in that direction sorry for the rant but damn I never get tired of where I live, except for the chuck holes that is. Mornins like this allways make it worth putting up with a little rain and snow. You're right Bushman the shrimp openings are few and super crowded down here. I have to drive about an hour and a half North to launch then run about an hour to be in the Islands but it is doable. That's why I have Geoduck on the menu this season, I'll do some crabbing but believe it or not I'm about full of crab, I counted the other day and still have 8 pint size containers of crab meat in the freezer. Anyhow have fun and good fishin to ya Bushman.

[wilded]

Any of you guys get to Central Texas in the fall and I would sure trade some venison and lamb for some shrimp and crab.

[Bushman]

Any of you guys get to Central Texas in the fall and I would sure trade some venison and lamb for some shrimp and crab.

Was in San Antonio last fall!
OMD, frozen crab as you know isn't as good but when you get a lot of it that's what you have to do. My wife makes them into crab cakes and also makes a crab dip so it helps.

[wilded]

Crawfish or Mountain oysters is about as close to the coast as we get these days.

[Soggy Bottom Boy]

I can eat my weight in shrimp. Wife won't go to an all you can eat shrimp fest. If she does she brings a book. No kiddn.

".....Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it.

Dey's uh, ...shrimp-kabobs, ...shrimp creole, ...shrimp gumbo, ...pan fried, ...deep fried, ...stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, ...lemon shrimp, ...coconut shrimp, ...pepper shrimp, ...shrimp soup, ...shrimp stew, ...shrimp salad, ...shrimp and potatoes, ...shrimp burger, ...shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it." So says Bubba Blue, anyway.

p.s.
He left out shrimp cocktail, shrimp cakes, ebi nigiri sushi, shrimp ceviche, and plain ol' peel & eat.

[OlympicMtDoo]

The girlfriend has me shinin up the shrimp gear, she wants to go shrimpin so guess I'll have to go, oh well I guess she could have a worse request.

[T-Pee]

I miss trips to Swiftsure and Hood Canal shrimp and oysters. You can keep the rain though.

tp

[FreeMountainHermit]

Saturdays out at my friends cabin in the San Juans

We used to deer hunt on Shaw Island back in the late 50s.

Huge ass storm came came up and shut down the ferrys for a few days. Not much on the islands back then. We found a shack that had some bags of dried lima beans in the kitchen. Ate 'em breakfast lunch & dinner for three days.

Still don't like lima beans.


FMH

[OlympicMtDoo]

Saturdays out at my friends cabin in the San Juans

We used to deer hunt on Shaw Island back in the late 50s.

Huge ass storm came came up and shut down the ferrys for a few days. Not much on the islands back then. We found a shack that had some bags of dried lima beans in the kitchen. Ate 'em breakfast lunch & dinner for three days.

Still don't like lima beans.


FMH

Bet ya had fun!!

[S-Cackalacky]

You fellers make me feel seafood deprived. Having lived on the FL east coast for 16 years, this thread is pure torture. Man, what I would give right now for big bowl of hot conch chowder and a plate of red snapper with sides of slaw and hush puppies.

TB, I feel your pain man.

[OlympicMtDoo]

Well S-C if you're ever up in this neck of the woods stop on by, I'll throw another shrimp on the Barbie for ya. Other wise I'll just have to eat a few for ya. We're goin on May 7th Bushman will proly be out on the 1st.

[bearriver]

Had fresh caught shrimp this time last year over in Port Townsend, Wa. They tasted, I kid you not, like Maine lobsters.

Your living the dream Bushman!

[Bushman]

FreeMountainHermit, I pilot my boat all the time past Shaw Island but have never stopped as they don't really have public moorage nor do they have a good cove for anchorage. Never quite figured out how they got the Washington State Ferry to make regular stops on the island. I am out at the northern most island in the San Juan's before you get to the gulf islands of Canada. Where I halibut fish I anchor and am close to the border of both Canada & US so I buy a license for both areas. The problem is if I drift fish I don't have to clear customs but once I put down my anchor I have to clear customs both in Canada and then again back in the US even if I never would have set foot on Canadian soil.

S-Crackalacky I had some pretty fair seafood last month in your neck of the woods!

bearriver if you ever get back near Port Townsend they have one of 2 wooden boat building schools in the US, pretty neat tour.

[bearriver]

if you ever get back near Port Townsend they have one of 2 wooden boat building schools in the US, pretty neat tour.

I'll be back, and will absolutely check that out. I'm certain that I saw the place last time. I stayed practically next door for a weekend in the brick whore house they renovated into a hotel. Those boats are pure artwork.

[OlympicMtDoo]

Hey Bushman, How deep do you normally shrimp? I'm setting up my pots I've got 350' of line on a couple and 400' on a couple more, seems to me we used to do pretty well at even 250'. OMD