Hood Canal Shrimping

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Pat Anderson

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OK, this afternoon we are planning to launch at Everett and motor over to somewhere in the vincinty of Port Ludlow to anchor up for the night (anybody have a favorite anchorage in that vicinity?), and then in the a.m. to head up the Hood Canal to try our hand at shrimping there. Hood Canal shrimp season is only four days long - last Saturday and Wednesday, tomorrow and the following Wednesday. Anybody know how folks have been doing there? Anybody else going to be there?
 
I am going to gear up and do this before I die...
 
Had to throw back 4 limit's on wednesday at dabob bay area. First pot of four had 143 shrimp in it. Only needed two limits and that one had the least amount in it. needless to say it took us longer to clean up than it did to catch our shrimp.:lol:
 
We got our limits on Sat. wasn't able to go on Weds but friends that did all got theirs. Have a great pic I was trying to attach but can't figure out how.
Norm
 
OK, left Everett at about 5:00 p.m., water was pretty good, even across Admiralty Inlet, so we got a little further than planned - we are anchored up at Pleasant Harbor, arrived about 8:00 p.m. - and it truly is pleasant! Pots go down in about two hours fifteen minutes. With such a short season and so few hours per day, it is difficult to try all the places we might want to - so we are heading to the place my cousin's husband always goes, I will probably end up wishing we had gone to Dabob Bay!
 
Well, at Pleasant Harbor we looked at the map, and there we were, only a couple of miles from Dabob Bay, so we headed over there, found a place that looked likely (to us and half a dozen other boats), baited up our pots and put them down on the stroke of 9:00 a.m. Pretty rough water while shrimping, rocking and rolling, but we limited (160 of the tasty little morsels!) on one soak of four pots. Most of them were in our McKay pots from Harbor Marine in Everett. The first McKay had 85, the second one had 50. If you are looking for shrimp pots, McKays are the ticket, I am convinced. Water was rougher returning than it had been coming over, longer trip. We tucked into the Inner Harbor at Port Ludlow for lunch - what a JEWEL of a spot! We will no doubt head back there for a quick overnighter, only about 22 miles from Everett (of course, across Admiralty Inlet, so weather will dictate). Patty powered the boat up on the trailer like a pro, got home in about an hour, perfect day and a half! Most expensive shrimp in the world (120 mile round trip, 40+ gallons of gas) not counting the pots, leaded lines, and the boat itself, but we'd have gone for the crusie anyway, so I just look at the shrimp as a bonus!
 
We have a dandy little Ace Pot Puller, it is really an electric assisted puller rather than fully powered, and it is NOT fast, but boy does it make it a lot easier to pull the crab and shrimp pots up! This picture was 2003 I think. It mounts on a Scotty downrigger hump, and I would give up the sport without one!

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Adeline":3rnes1c4 said:
The "Just Keep Fishing" crew just posted this video of their shrimping adventure. Man, that looks like work! How about an electric or gas-pwered puller? http://www.justkeepfishing.com/Shrimping.html
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I have a basic simple philosophy....This is a recreational activity. There is nothing fun about even 100 ft pull crabbing in the sound let alone a 300 ft pull shrimping. I turned 55 on friday and my birthday present to myself in time for shrimping was the electric Ace pot puller. Mounts to a scotty downrigger mount and plugs into the scotty plug. It was worth every penny.
Norm
 
Amen to the Ace Pot Puller. First item I ordered for the new boat. I took a year to recover from 6 weeks of hand pulling pots in the Broughtons in 2004! That's for those young guys on the video, until their shoulders go bad. Better living through mechanization!!
 
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