We got to do something a little different this past week. We headed down to the salt for some evening (?) h2o time. The evening turned into an all nighter, getting home at 6am. (Not an easy thing to do for this old man). But it was worth it!

I made three trips to the coast, two with Les and one with My Lady (Paula). The trip with Paula was a shorter stay than the others because it was her first trip out in quite awhile. But she did good. She even took up the cleaning station after each trip.

Name:  Paula cleaning shrimp jpeg.jpg
Views: 371
Size:  61.8 KB

The three trips netted us a 3 gal pull, a 4 gal pull and Paula and I got a 2 gal pull.

Name:  shrimping april 2021 jpeg.jpg
Views: 367
Size:  72.8 KBName:  shrimp (2) april 2021 jpeg.jpg
Views: 361
Size:  74.2 KB

there were some good size to these nice catches.

Name:  shrimp -good size jpeg.jpg
Views: 320
Size:  55.1 KB

We even had a strange looking one show up in the bucket.

Name:  Mantis shrimp jpeg.jpg
Views: 366
Size:  43.8 KB

Do you think that these would make good crappie bait ??

Now it's time to get back to normal fishing hours and just get up early instead of getting home early.

Until next time, tight line and full nets

see you on the water

Jim