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Title: Juneau prices.
Post by: gstours on June 16, 2022, 01:39:10 AM
Let's go fishing.   Bring your wallet,  no Id or 😷.
   Butt you need bait even if you are not on vacation........
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: Hardy Boy on June 16, 2022, 04:33:45 PM
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
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: Gobi King on June 16, 2022, 05:37:59 PM
Wow, Gray, you guys have exceeded Michigan's slice und dice prices.

Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: JasonGotaProblem on June 16, 2022, 05:54:32 PM
Wow. Thank god I buy large shrimp at $5/doz
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: Gfish on June 17, 2022, 04:54:09 AM
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.
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: Maxed Out on June 17, 2022, 06:31:25 AM
 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 $850 !!
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: oc1 on June 17, 2022, 07:20:56 AM
My brother-in-law runs Spot Prawn pots around Hope AK.  I taught him how to throw a cast net.
 He took one back to AK with him and has been using it to catch shrimp bait.
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: gstours on June 17, 2022, 02:50:10 PM
Thanks for your comments,  just the chance to go fishing 🎣 is priceless.
  As mentioned,  bait can be diy.  For me it's the seed to start the Gary's food chain started.    Take the first scraps,  it's crab 🦀 bait, or shrimp 🍤.  The shrimp can be tied to a hook as well,  we generally buy 18 kilos of large herring in the early spring at about 2$ 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.
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: Maxed Out on June 17, 2022, 06:59:19 PM
 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.
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: akfish on June 18, 2022, 10:45:42 PM
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...
Title: Re: Juneau prices.
Post by: MarkT on June 19, 2022, 01:55:35 AM
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!