Whoa! You have got it made. I never even came close to getting a quart of grass shrimp in all my traps put together. One of the things that I will have to post is the simple construction of large bait box that you can drop off the end of your boat, or pier, to hold/store live shrimp until needed. Actually, it will store just about anything you would wish to keep alive as well. Like everything else in fishing, sometimes the catching would be great, and at other times poor. I would always store my surplus shrimp to insure a good supply for when shrimping did not go too well. If you can catch a quart of them at a clip, then simply store them until until you have enough. Perhaps, because I live on a marsh I have forgotten that not everyone has easy access to the water. I do exactly the same thing with killies for fluking. I usually put out three traps, but every morning I check them, grab the cream of the crop, re-bait the traps, save the eels, dump the unwanted killies, and store the good ones in a holding box until needed. The whole operation takes less than ten minutes and I never leave my property.
It is going to be interesting in corresponding with you. If shrimp abound so plentiful in your area, then there is a very good possibility that you could clean up with a seine, assuming of course, the footing will allow you to work a seine. I always suspected that there were areas in CT that would hold a goodly amount of grass shrimp, but I could not find any that were close enough to my home to be convenient. |