Thread: Shrimpiing lights

Originally Posted by huntinslabs

If you get these lights you dont need an inverter

A19 LED Bulb - 60 Watt Equivalent - 12V DC - 700 Lumens | Super Bright LEDs

abd I use 8lb dumbells to hold lights down.

I think the fellow that showed me how to build these lights went to those, I decided to stay with these since I already had em built .........

Originally Posted by Phantom309

Don't know .............
In winter time we use a long pole with net on it to dip em, at night time, when they
swim over our submerged lights, etc, etc....
In summer time them folks cast net em in the day time, from Daytona Beach up to Jacksonville ......

Ok. Gotcha.
Shrimp poling basically consists of driving a pole into the water (acting as a marker...) then chumming around it. Cast net the shrimp that are attracted. That's my very basic summary of it. Seems very effective!


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Originally Posted by GREENFISH

Ok. Gotcha.
Shrimp poling basically consists of driving a pole into the water (acting as a marker...) then chumming around it. Cast net the shrimp that are attracted. That's my very basic summary of it. Seems very effective!


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I think our current is too strong to bait an area. It would just wash away. In the summer time we hunt them on the fish finder in the main channel area and cast net them. sometimes in 12 ft of water. The summer shrimp run on the bottom. In the winter time we anchor up, drop down our lights and net the shrimp that we see that come in the range of our nets. Some get carried away with their light fields and long nets.

Originally Posted by Slimjim1

I think our current is too strong to bait an area. It would just wash away. In the summer time we hunt them on the fish finder in the main channel area and cast net them. sometimes in 12 ft of water. The summer shrimp run on the bottom. In the winter time we anchor up, drop down our lights and net the shrimp that we see that come in the range of our nets. Some get carried away with their light fields and long nets.

Nah, that tide swing in South Carolina is way stronger than Oak Hill/Edgewater area. I have shrimped many times in SC with poles and chum. I bet when the summer shrimp in Daytona or Astor show if you chummed em you could pull them away from the gauntlet of boats and keep from playing bumper boats, at least for a bit until one of them commercial guys saw a net full. My sisters floating dock in Beaufort had an 8' swing from high to low tide.

Originally Posted by huntinslabs

Nah, that tide swing in South Carolina is way stronger than Oak Hill/Edgewater area. I have shrimped many times in SC with poles and chum. I bet when the summer shrimp in Daytona or Astor show if you chummed em you could pull them away from the gauntlet of boats and keep from playing bumper boats, at least for a bit until one of them commercial guys saw a net full. My sisters floating dock in Beaufort had an 8' swing from high to low tide.

I did not realize that. it might be worth giving it a try. It's always fun to try / learn new things

Originally Posted by Slimjim1

I did not realize that. it might be worth giving it a try. It's always fun to try / learn new things

Stuff stinks really bad. We used builders clay mix, freeze dried ground menhaden and mixed that together very well and then used menhaden oil to make a playdo consistency then make balls about the size of softballs and dry in sun till rock hard. They sell shrimp tags by 10 to go on poles stuck in mud to mark your chum. Throw 4-6 around each pole and wait about 15 minutes and start at 1 end and work down line throwing net on chum and repeat. Rebait about every 3rd pass.

Originally Posted by huntinslabs

Nah, that tide swing in South Carolina is way stronger than Oak Hill/Edgewater area. I have shrimped many times in SC with poles and chum. I bet when the summer shrimp in Daytona or Astor show if you chummed em you could pull them away from the gauntlet of boats and keep from playing bumper boats, at least for a bit until one of them commercial guys saw a net full. My sisters floating dock in Beaufort had an 8' swing from high to low tide.

My buddy lives on Lady Island near Beaufort. And they do have some crazy tide swings!!


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your contraption was fine until you put it in the water....lol