Advice on cast netting some shrimp?

[ubermensch1324]

Hey fellas. So, I feel kinda dirty saying this but for the next few trips I'm biting the bullet and going to start fishing some live shrimp at night in the lights - at least till the sun comes out and I can throw tops. It seems like right now if you throw a live shrimp out it gets eaten before it even hits the water. The past two trips trout seem to only want to hit nothing but live bait at night - tried throwing gulps, mirrodine, husky rapala glass minnow, 3d glass minnow, spec rigs, DOA...everything in soft plastic colors.

Just looking for some advice on cast netting some shrimp. Is is better that we just pay the money and buy it every time or is it worth the trouble to try and catch some ourselves? Any direction or area we can head to find some and save us some monies would be appreciated!

Don't gotta give me the exact location but 2 hours of cast netting for 4 shrimp and some finger mullet (under the Kemah bridge, lighted boat docks) is so brutal! Caught 4 keeper trout on all 4 shrimp - lol.

Thanks in advance!

[FP10]

wow....how quickly the mighty have fallen....

[buoy37]

I am pretty sure it is illegal to catch shrimp in Clear Lake. TPWD considers it a nursery area.

You better look into it before you get an insane TPWD ticket. I may be wrong, but you still need to cover your azz.

https://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/fish_hunt/fish/shrimpreg.phtml

[ubermensch1324]

wow....how quickly the mighty have fallen....

You are the guy who told me to throw live bait at this spot stop trolling! We are in our kayaks in channel under the small bridge throwing into lights at night and 25 feet of water. Arties do not work there @ night until the sun comes up - at least for us.

[ubermensch1324]

I am pretty sure it is illegal to catch shrimp in Clear Lake. TPWD considers it a nursery area.

You better look into it before you get an insane TPWD ticket. I may be wrong, but you still need to cover your azz.

www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/fish_hunt/fish/shrimpreg.phtml

Crap did not know this - won't cast there again (not like we caught much anyways). Thanks for the heads up buoy!

[GoldSpoonGeneral]

Murderer

[Primer]

I've never had much luck gettin shrimp with a cast net. The only place I've had luck is right by BR. The best places have always been right along the marsh in a mud with scattered shell. But that's just my research.

[coachlaw]

IMO you've got to be either lucky or good to cast net a mess of scrimps. I'm neither, so if I must use live, I buy it or I steal some of the ones you bought and call it rent for you using my dock.

[Lori77563]

Wow never knew it was illegal to "bait shrimp" after 2PM April thru August 14, violated that many times.

[ubermensch1324]

IMO you've got to be either lucky or good to cast net a mess of scrimps. I'm neither, so if I must use live, I buy it or I steal some of the ones you bought and call it rent for you using my dock.

Ha ha ha...sweeeet!

[reeltime]

Jason he's in Kemah in the channel.What does it say about channels.

[Gilbert]

you ain't gonna fill up the live well with shrimp using a cast net. mullet and mud minners yes but not shrimp.

[buoy37]

We are in our kayaks in channel under the small bridge throwing into lights at night and 25 feet of water.

My wife kills it at that bridge with white GULP shrimps under a rattle cork rigged with a cirle hook. Pop it loudly and aggresively. When you think you popped it too much. Pop it one more time and that's when they will hit it.

[buoy37]

Jason he's in Kemah in the channel.What does it say about channels.

Nursery Areas: (No Shrimping Allowed) Those coastal waters not specifically named above as Major Bays or Bait Bays are considered Nursery Areas. Includes tributary bays, bayous, inlets, lakes, and rivers that serve as significant growth and development environments for postlarval and juvenile shrimp. Does not include outside waters, major bays, or bait bays.

I need to get back to work!

[ubermensch1324]

My wife kills it at that bridge with white GULP shrimps under a rattle cork rigged with a cirle hook. Pop it loudly and aggresively. When you think you popped it too much. Pop it one more time and that's when they will hit it.

Thank you so much!! That helps tremendously never really thought of putting them on a cork.

FYI buoy37 - the current rips extremely hard under that bridge that even our yaks wouldn't anchor pretty much no matter what we did. Might have to go buy a new anchor tonight and figure out some new tactics. We fished the kemah side, not seabrook side of the bridge and had so much trouble getting our corks to stay put (do we need to move to other side?), we didn't even have to cast the current would just rip them if we dropped it straight down. Kinda scary was rockin our yaks back and forth pretty hard...this current coupled with the wind made it pretty impossible to throw artificial which is why we went to the popping cork so we could see what was going on and anchor upstream so the cork would sit in one spot.

Gonna try the gulp!