Let's go fishing. Bring your wallet, no Id or 😷.
Butt you need bait even if you are not on vacation........
Gary: Bait is stupid expensive here also if you can find it. Thank goodness I dont use bait for salmon anymore and I catch my own butt bait. Don't forget fuel this year ................. >:(
Cheers:
Todd
Wow, Gray, you guys have exceeded Michigan's slice und dice prices.
Wow. Thank god I buy large shrimp at $5/doz
Quote from: Hardy Boy on June 16, 2022, 04:33:45 PMGary: Bait is stupid expensive here also if you can find it. Thank goodness I dont use bait for salmon anymore and I catch my own butt bait. Don't forget fuel this year ................. >:(
Cheers:
Todd
Time to figer-out ha'da catch yer own, an maybe goes e-lec-tronic.
Yep, that's some spendy bait Gary
Spoons, hootchies, and plugs for me.
I do prefer a button herring on front hook for hootchies when the coho show up in Sept.
Halibut only opens a few day a year for us, so don't need much bait for that
Last year my fresh bait guy went to $8 for a small scoop of live herring. I'll still buy from him cause I want him to stay in business.
3 years ago I bought a roto-molded 400qt Grizzly cooler for $420. That same cooler is now $850 !!
My brother-in-law runs Spot Prawn pots around Hope AK. I taught him how to throw a cast net.
He took one back to AK with him and has been using it to catch shrimp bait.
Thanks for your comments, just the chance to go fishing 🎣 is priceless.
As mentioned, bait can be diy. For me it's the seed to start the Gary's food chain started. Take the first scraps, it's crab 🦀 bait, or shrimp 🍤. The shrimp can be tied to a hook as well, we generally buy 18 kilos of large herring in the early spring at about 2$ pound, plus air fare. Butt this year I missed it as I was in Oregon doing medical stuff for quite a while.
Here's the results of a plan that worked. One average dungy crab can yield 10.5 ounces of delicious 😋 meat.
Love them dungees Gary !!
Retail dungeness prices have gone absolutely bonkers. My local store is $35-40 for one average size dungeness crab. Costco king crab was $18.99 a pound last year. This year it's $38.99 a pound. Only rich folks can afford them these days. Heck, I can't even afford imitation crab meat.
I haven't bought herring for several years. I run hoochies behind a flasher for salmon and naked jigs for halibut. I do just fine and my hands don't get stinky! Lately I've been using slow pitch jigs for salmon. They work. If I really need herring, I'll jig some up...
Quote from: Queegueg on June 17, 2022, 09:18:49 AMHow deep is the water that he is succssfully using a cast net to catch shrimp? ...& What species of shrimp?...Queequeg
He's catching shrimp bait with the cast net, not shrimp!