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Shrimp Bait by John Martinis: When I was first introduced to shrimping in Puget Sound the best bait mixes were just being discovered. Remember, many years ago there were less people shrimping which made catching spot shrimp easier and faster than it is today. Granted the spot shrimp populations seem to be very healthy in Puget Sound thanks to good management. During my early years at shrimping I just poked holes in the cans of cat food and mackerel. Two cans of cat food and two cans of mackerel. It was that easy. As more people entered the sport it became necessary to have thinner bait (broadcast bait) to lure spot shrimp to consider my shrimp pots versus the shrimp pots close by. Shrimping is by no means a contact sport but you will have plenty of people within talking distance close to you. Let’s talk shrimp bait. The ingredients are: Canned mackerel, Friskies Ocean Whitefish & Tuna Dinner canned cat food, Super Bait Shrimp pellets and Pro Cure Crab and Shrimp Attractant (or sub herring oil). To a five gallon bucket: pour in 5lbs of shrimp pellets, four cans of mackerel and four cans of cat food. Then add enough Pro Cure Crab & Shrimp Attractant to thin the mixture. Either mix with a large wooden spoon or use a paddle paint/mortar mixer (Marshalltown 24-in Steel Ball Mixing Arm) attach to a drill. Mix the bait up a day or two before plan to use the bait. The next day after you make up the shrimp bait, the bait will become quite thick. Split the bait in half and make half the bait the consistency of peanut butter and the other half the consistency yogurt. Now you have a fast spreading broadcast bait and a bait that will slowly release for one-two hours. Use two shrimp bait containers in your shrimp pot. One container with the thin bait and one container with the thicker bait. Every time you pull your shrimp pots dump the used bait out of the bait containers and fill the bait containers with fresh shrimp bait. Even after a one hour soak the shrimp bait dramatically loses its effectiveness. If you want to economize your bait, dump the used bait into a bucket and reenergize the bait with cat food and mackerel. I have tried several variations of my shrimp bait formula to include using canned salmon, salmon oil and herring oil. It all works the same because the limit is only 80 spot shrimp. Just as a note: I know shrimpers who only use canned mackerel and nothing else for shrimp bait and they say it works as good as any other shrimp bait. Tomorrow I will discuss spot shrimp seasons and regulations. Take a look at my shrimp bait video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_44eG2tmj4 ... See MoreSee Less

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Great piece on bait thank you

I like to have a frozen bait jar also. Leaches as it thaws

These posts are awesome, thanks John!

Alex Smith

they closed blackmouth till March 1st. do you think they will have the everett blackmouth derby around then?

nice pink toenails John

Any word on the dates for the season this year?

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Spot Shrimp/Prawn trap rigging by John Martinis: Rigging a shrimp pot is fairly straight forward. First let’s start with the weight of the shrimp pot. The shrimp pot that I use SMI 19027 weighs approximately 13lbs right out of the box. To get the best performance out of a shrimp pot, the pot should weigh 30lbs or more. Why? When a shrimp pot is lowered to the bottom in 300 feet of water there are two major factors involved in keeping the pot in one place. The wind/waves are tugging on the rope and the buoys. This can cause the shrimp pot to either move or hop up and down from the bottom. If your shrimp pot is moving around the result is either no shrimp or very few shrimp.

When the tide is moving, the tide is causing drag on the 400ft of rope that is tethered to the pot. The drag on the rope can and will move the shrimp pot if there is insufficient weight added to the shrimp pot. Two of my SMI 19027 shrimp pots have an extra 15lbs of weight added (close enough). I chose to use three SMI 19112 5lb weights. These weights are plastic coated and have a hole one each end of the weight, attach the weights under the tunnel entrances of the shrimp pot. My other two shrimp pots have a 15lb brick of lead in the center bait box of the shrimp pot. To avoid attaching the weights twice like I had to, invest in the heavy duty tie straps. The standard tie straps break or come loose from using the shrimp pot. The shrimp pot harness on my pots are the SMI 19119. This is a good quality heavy duty harness. From the harness to the buoys rig the pot with 400ft of 5/16” leaded rope. When it comes to the yellow buoys to float 400ft of leaded rope there are two different directions to go: If you are just shrimping in Puget Sound you can get by with two jumbo yellow buoys. If you plan on shrimping in the Straights of Juan de Fuca or in the San Juan Islands you need to use two standard yellow buoys and one inflatable yellow buoy. Shrimping stories are filled with, “I lost my shrimp pot” stories. Almost always a shrimp pot loss is from not enough weight and not enough flotation. I have my shrimp pot buoys on a separate detachable line for easy storage. A final rigging tip that will not result in limits of shrimp but will keep the access doors from going overboard: Tie strap the top access doors of the shrimp pot so that they don’t get lost. The door latches loosen over time and they can get lost by going overboard. The dome style stackable shrimp pots are usually heavy enough for Puget Sound shrimping but you might want to add weight for shrimping in the Straights of Juan de Fuca and the San Juan islands. Your shrimping adventures are going to yield limits of spot shrimp/prawns if you take your time and rig your shrimp pots correctly. Don’t make rigging your shrimp pots a work in progress, do it right the first time. Tomorrow I will discuss shrimp bait. ... See MoreSee Less

Spot Shrimp/Prawn trap rigging by John Martinis: Rigging a shrimp pot is fairly straight forward. First let’s start with the weight of the shrimp pot. The shrimp pot that I use SMI 19027 weighs approximately 13lbs right out of the box. To get the best performance out of a shrimp pot, the pot should weigh 30lbs or more. Why? When a shrimp pot is lowered to the bottom in 300 feet of water there are two major factors involved in keeping the pot in one place. The wind/waves are tugging on the rope and the buoys. This can cause the shrimp pot to either move or hop up and down from the bottom. If your shrimp pot is moving around the result is either no shrimp or very few shrimp.

When the tide is moving, the tide is causing drag on the 400ft of rope that is tethered to the pot. The drag on the rope can and will move the shrimp pot if there is insufficient weight added to the shrimp pot. Two of my SMI 19027 shrimp pots have an extra 15lbs of weight added (close enough). I chose to use three SMI 19112 5lb weights. These weights are plastic coated and have a hole one each end of the weight, attach the weights under the tunnel entrances of the shrimp pot. My other two shrimp pots have a 15lb brick of lead in the center bait box of the shrimp pot. To avoid attaching the weights twice like I had to, invest in the heavy duty tie straps. The standard tie straps break or come loose from using the shrimp pot. The shrimp pot harness on my pots are the SMI 19119. This is a good quality heavy duty harness. From the harness to the buoys rig the pot with 400ft of 5/16” leaded rope. When it comes to the yellow buoys to float 400ft of leaded rope there are two different directions to go: If you are just shrimping in Puget Sound you can get by with two jumbo yellow buoys. If you plan on shrimping in the Straights of Juan de Fuca or in the San Juan Islands you need to use two standard yellow buoys and one inflatable yellow buoy. Shrimping stories are filled with, “I lost my shrimp pot” stories. Almost always a shrimp pot loss is from not enough weight and not enough flotation. I have my shrimp pot buoys on a separate detachable line for easy storage. A final rigging tip that will not result in limits of shrimp but will keep the access doors from going overboard: Tie strap the top access doors of the shrimp pot so that they don’t get lost. The door latches loosen over time and they can get lost by going overboard. The dome style stackable shrimp pots are usually heavy enough for Puget Sound shrimping but you might want to add weight for shrimping in the Straights of Juan de Fuca and the San Juan islands. Your shrimping adventures are going to yield limits of spot shrimp/prawns if you take your time and rig your shrimp pots correctly. Don’t make rigging your shrimp pots a work in progress, do it right the first time. Tomorrow I will discuss shrimp bait.

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Great info thank you!

Excellent read!

Thank you

Jeff Bates

What's the final cost per pot?

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3 days ago

Spot Shrimp/Prawn Traps By John Martinis: This is the time of year to start gathering up spot shrimp/prawn supplies. Today I want to discuss Spot Shrimp/Prawn pots. It seems that veteran shrimpers all have their favorite style, shape or brand of spot shrimp/prawn pot. There are plenty of sizes, designs, shapes and materials to choose from. Before we get into the debate of which design is better, let me temper the debate by reminding everyone that the spot shrimp/prawn limit is only 80 spot shrimp/prawns unless the limit is increased. Most of the good quality spot shrimp/prawn traps can catch a limit of spot shrimp/prawns without any problem with good bait and proper rigging. My best advice is not to cut any corners on bait or rigging if you want to be successful at this endeavor. What I have concluded over the two decades that I have been shrimping; is that a good portion of the shrimp enter the shrimp pot through the pot mesh and a similar amount of shrimp enter the pot through the entrance tunnels. Why? Consistently I find shrimp stuck entering the pot through the mesh head first. Remember only the larger shrimp get stuck trying to enter the pot through the mesh. Which leads me to believe the smaller and medium size shrimp swim through the mesh without any problem. Why is this important? I have found that the larger spot shrimp/prawn pots consistently catch more shrimp. All the custom made spot shrimp/prawn traps that people have shown me over the years have one thing in common, they are all larger than the shrimp pots available from the shrimp pot manufactures. Leading me to further believe my theory that the larger shrimp pots catch more shrimp. Again, remember the spot shrimp/prawn limit is only 80. I use the SMI octagon spot shrimp/prawn pot #19027. This is a coated wire mesh pot. This pot is not too large that it takes up too much space on the boat. When I am going shrimping with two to four people I normally have four of these pots on board. Four of the SMI 19027 shrimp pots may be too bulky for some boats. Safety and room to move around takes precedence over having the perfect shrimp pot. The SMI #19068 stackable spot shrimp/prawn pot is a good alternative to the #19027 pot. The mesh on the #19068 pot is made out of netting. These pots are cone shaped allowing the pots to be stacked thus taking up less space. SMI also has an economy wire mesh shrimp pot #19023. These shrimp pots have an overall smaller surface area. You are going to catch shrimp with this pot but it is going to take more effort. Meaning that you might have to put the pot out multiple times to catch your 80 shrimp. It is just simple math: the larger the overall surface area of the shrimp pot, the more entrance’s (the mesh) there are to enter the pot. Photo credits, John Martinis on the left with a SMI 19027 shrimp pot and Dave Millers on the right with a 19023 shrimp pot. This is a multiple part series about spot shrimp/prawn pots that I will present to you throughout this week. ... See MoreSee Less

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Correction: SMI shrimp pot 19023 should have been correctly mentioned as SMI 19022. 19023 is a 1/2" mesh pot. Spot shrimp wire mesh pots must be 7/8" mesh for Puget Sound spot shrimp. wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfishing-regulations/gear-rules

John, what all do I need to go shrimping? Trap, rope, buoy, bait, bait holder etc

I recognize that landscape.

Awesome post thank you

Ohh Yea!

When does shrimping open?

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6 days ago

Friday/Saturday Deal of the Day, 6lb Super Bait Prawn Pellets! Reg. price is $19.95, Sale price is $11.95, save $8.00 bucks! In store purchases only, no gift cards or coupons may be used on the sale item. ... See MoreSee Less

Friday/Saturday Deal of the Day, 6lb Super Bait Prawn Pellets! Reg. price is $19.95, Sale price is $11.95, save $8.00 bucks! In store purchases only, no gift cards or coupons may be used on the sale item.

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This is such a good price. Its upsetting that it doesn't come up on my feed till Friday night so I never have a chance to take advantage of these friday/Saturday deals

Do you ship to zip code 98466?

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