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Pictures of the shrimp trip, some Whalers
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| Author | Topic: Pictures of the shrimp trip, some Whalers |
| JMARTIN |
posted 05-10-2010 01:46 PM ET (US)  
Lots of people out shrimping. Some of my favorite pictures. My shrimp boat with all the gear on board. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7787.jpg The fastest shrimp boat out there. Crockett and Tubbs were doing OK. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7817.jpg http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7771.jpg The smallest shrimp boat. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7762.jpg The Guard was out doing safety checks. We got to see a fast "get back on the boat". That was cool. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7781.jpg Bumper boats and icky seats. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7842.jpg Is this a Whaler? It's sitting in a very expensive spot. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7850.jpg Home made seats and window. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7831.jpg I got more boat pictures, but no Whalers. John |
| home Aside |
posted 05-10-2010 02:10 PM ET (US)
How did you do on the shrimp? Photos of the shrimp Pat |
| JMARTIN |
posted 05-10-2010 02:45 PM ET (US)
We limited every day. I will load a picture of shrimp tonight. The sportsman has the most limited opening for shrimp this year and some knucklehead decided to open the Speiden area for commercial Tribal fishery also on the 6th. There were cranked off people out there and people who lost gear due to the commercial folks. They fish long lines with 5 pots on a line. They take up a lot of space and if you get hooked up, you loose your pot. John |
| JMARTIN |
posted 05-11-2010 10:21 AM ET (US)
A picture of the shrimp. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7790.jpg John |
| frontier |
posted 05-11-2010 10:48 AM ET (US)
The tennis ball rail end caps on that last picture are an interesting touch. Looks like it does the job. |
| whaler131 |
posted 05-11-2010 11:19 AM ET (US)
What is the kicker on your 22 and do you gave bracket on the back for it? Thank you for the pictures. |
| JMARTIN |
posted 05-11-2010 12:40 PM ET (US)
The kicker is an Evinrude 15, I think it's a 1989. The bracket is a piece of painted oak. It is bolted through the transom in 3 places. One of them is countersunk on the inside a bit. The 4th is a lag bolt or something like that. Both the motor and the bracket work well on the Revenge. The 15 is more motor than needed in as much as you do not go any faster at full as compared to 2/3rd's throttle. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/Johnspics045-3.jpg John |
| whaler131 |
posted 05-11-2010 01:18 PM ET (US)
Thank you for the picture.I picked a 7.5 evinrude that will fit over the transom with out a bracket. About the same age as yours. I have a 22 1988 outrage with a 2002 200 evinrude. Have not tried it yet as to if it needs to be highter up like you have. Some day it may warm up here in North west ohio and I can get get out on Erie. |
| elaelap |
posted 05-11-2010 08:36 PM ET (US)
Thanks as always for the photos, John, especially the ones of your sweet Revenge...though those shrimp look pretty nice as well. If you've got time, would you briefly describe the shrimp fishing process (from a Whaler, of course, just to keep things relevant); I've never done it, though I know some commercial guys do it down here. Thx, Tony |
| boatdryver |
posted 05-11-2010 11:43 PM ET (US)
Those shrimp in the PNW are the sweetest, most delicious and tender things I've ever eaten. There's no comparison to any other kind of shrimp or prawns. We used to catch them when cruising in B. C. It was worth hauling the pot up from 300-400 ft. We used a one way ratchet pulley device attached to a ball fender towed behind our 40 hp RIB. JimL |
| Kencvit |
posted 05-12-2010 01:34 AM ET (US)
Crockett and Tubbs...very funny...thanks for the pictures |
| home Aside |
posted 05-12-2010 06:45 AM ET (US)
John, Thanks for the photo's of your Revenge & the shrimp...looking good Pat |
| JMARTIN |
posted 05-12-2010 12:28 PM ET (US)
I enjoy taking and sharing the pictures. Since this is a Whaler site, I try to keep it some what Whaler related. Thanks for the feedback. Shrimping in a nutshell. Gear is a shrimp pot with bait box, 400 feet of weighted 5/16 line and a yellow float that can float the entire set up in case you screw up. I use shrimp pellets, like dog food made out of some sort of fish I think. You want the bait to cloud out around the pot. The floats are stashed in the cabin. There are 3 pots in this picture. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7798.jpg An hour and 1/2 before slack tide, find 300 or more feet of water with a bottom that you can drop on without getting hung up. You want a hole or a spot where it is flat but right next to a ridge. Drop your pot and I circle it as it goes down deploying the 400 feet of line. It takes a long time to get down and you do not want the pot to drift off the edge or into something nasty. An hour later you pull. This is the hard part, getting 400 feet of a 40 pound pot up and coiling the line so you can get back down without a tangle. The pot has to have some weight or the current will move it. I use an electric Ace Line Hauler to pull. It attaches to my Scotty gear. It's in the stowed position here. It takes about 5 minutes to get the pot up. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7799.jpg We can get 3 pulls with 3 pots out of a slack tide if we hustle. You can fish with some current, rule of thumb is less than a foot an hour change in tide for Puget Sound. Get a current table, not a tide table. The current has different times. You can leave the pots in, but if they take off you have to find them or they can get hung up on something. The more current, the less shrimp. They get freaked by the pulling of the buoy and leave or they can not get to the pot, I do not know which but dropping and pulling in current is tricky and you can really move around. Last trip we were getting 20 to 40 a pull and limit is 80 per day. The boat gets soaked from the line and filthy from the pots, bait and shrimp. We clean the shrimp out there while waiting to pull again and I take pictures of other boats. John
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| kwik_wurk |
posted 05-12-2010 03:36 PM ET (US)
Ace line haulers are slick. Mine goes to Cannon plugs. But get hung on knots, I have to splice my lines. |
| elaelap |
posted 05-12-2010 06:05 PM ET (US)
Wow...sounds like a lot of work, but the rewards are substantial. Thanks for the explanation and the pix. Tony |
| JMARTIN |
posted 05-12-2010 07:22 PM ET (US)
Crabbing is much easier, dump, soak, short pull. Sitting out there tending the shrimp pots is not bad on a nice day. You get to see the correct way to go through a bunch of shrimpers. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7770.jpg And the wrong way to do it. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7772.jpg What the heck, I like to take pictures of boats. I have always coveted one like this. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7844.jpg Probably should avoid all that wood and go this route. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7852.jpg and there are some boats that I do not get at all, what do you do with this, cocktail cruise? http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7846.jpg John |
| David Pendleton |
posted 05-12-2010 10:19 PM ET (US)
Seems like a lot of work for eighty shrimp. It isn't lost on me that the experience is part of the allure, but that ain't much shrimp. |
| David Pendleton |
posted 05-12-2010 10:20 PM ET (US)
And, I do like your pictures. Thanks for posting them. |
| placerville |
posted 05-13-2010 12:07 AM ET (US)
Great post John! I really enjoyed it. Cool boat pics, tutorial on how to catch shrimp, the shrimp themselves. Sounds like a perfect day on the water. I particularly like the shot of the smallest whaler. Is that a 15'? Matt |
| andygere |
posted 05-13-2010 01:12 AM ET (US)
Great post, shrimping looks like cool sport fishing, and with tasty rewards. That last boat is what I would call a "floating gin palace". Looks bloated and top heavy to me. |
| erik selis |
posted 05-13-2010 06:51 AM ET (US)
Great post John! Some lovely boats in your pictures. Thanks for the explanation about shrimping. Very interesting. Erik |
| whaler131 |
posted 05-13-2010 11:17 AM ET (US)
Very interesting on how this is done. I find it easy to go down to my bait shop and buy the large ones and take them back to the grill. |
| JMARTIN |
posted 05-13-2010 02:31 PM ET (US)
Matt, all the small Whalers are 13's. A 15 is kind of rare up here. The 13 is king with the 17 a close second. The large cleaned shrimp are about the size of you middle finger, the smallest ones are the size of you little finger. A family of four has a feast on one limit. Kind of like crab. Our daily limit is 5 Dungeness crab and that's a good meal for a family of four. I would not launch and go out for just my limit. It's more like a 3 day excursion to a great spot with shrimping as an excuse. This is the entrance to Roche Harbor where I stay in a condo with a dock. The "bald in spots" island in the background is Speiden and that's where the shrimp are. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7755.jpg Roche is a great spot with lots of interesting boats. You can see the entrance in the background http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7843.jpg A couple of boats that struck my fancy. I think this was a one lung-er. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7828.jpg A classic something or other. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7763.jpg A one of a kind, I am assuming http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7759.jpg Two story something, does not suit my fancy. Good use of space though. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7761.jpg Thanks for the comments, I'll end with "nice duty for a Whaler". http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/jmartin-/DSCF7766.jpg John
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| elaelap |
posted 05-13-2010 02:49 PM ET (US)
"...with shrimping as an excuse." Heh, heh. I used to get in trouble frequently with commercial and recreational charter boat skippers for saying that fishing, for me, was actually an excuse to get out on the ocean. Much as I enjoy fishing -- especially for wild Pacific Chinook salmon -- cruising around and then trolling in my Whaler looking for the damn things is what it's really all about. Now I (mostly) keep my mouth shut about this around those folks who view fishing more as a result rather than a process ;-) Tony |
| DeeVee |
posted 05-13-2010 11:00 PM ET (US)
I shrimped for 10 years out of my old Sakonnet on Hood Canal. I am in the process of rigging a new puller for my Outrage 22 to use for crabbing and shrimping (shrimping next year). Yes, it is a lot of work for 80 shrimp, but as Tony says, it's the process that is so enjoyable. The same goes for salmon and bottom fishing. Sure, one can go buy fish or shrimp, but the process is the fun part. Rigging the boat for the expedition, polishing the boat up before the trip, launching the boat, chasing the quarry, and if you are lucky, catching the quarry, then the loading of the boat, cleaning the boat and catch, and finally, the coup de grace, partaking of the good stuff you brought home. One of the biggest parts of the whole thing is, using the Whaler for what it was designed to do. The boat and gear working well, the launch and retrieve working well, the coordination of man and machine performing as planned is just plain fun. Top it off with being out on the water in good weather, or not so good weather. This is why I work. Doug Vazquez |
| JMARTIN |
posted 05-13-2010 11:29 PM ET (US)
I concur, Doug. It cracks me up as shrimping is usually my maiden voyage from six months in the barn to six months in the Twin Bridges. The Revenge gets all teak oiled, shined and repaired in the barn. Then I go out and just trash it. All the gear is on it till shrimping ends. I will be running back out to Roche on the 20th. The Revenge is a great platform for fishing anything. The freeboard is low and you have a lot of deck space. You can also just duck under the canvas for some protection. Heck, you can take a nap or a crap if you want, but you can do that at home.
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