WA (Shell)fish Quest EP 25: Spot Shrimp

[@brentlichtenberg]

Love your videos. Please keep making then! 😎👍

[@KL-gu7kc]

Hi awesome video looks like fun. Just curious what is Tim holding on to that’s orange wrapped around with yellow ropes?

[@edwardhayes2465]

You need the Bass-O-Matic '76 for this bait! lol

[@carlossales8710]

Nice video Blake I’m hoping you can help me with the shrimp pots what size are them and the square hole how big and small can they be and can I used them in all the sound thanks. By the way you biracial family is beautiful just like my family tight lines my friend

[@WAFishQuest]

thanks Carlos! Regarding my family I've got to be the luckiest guy on the planet! Regarding the shrimp pot specs, I recommend checking out the end of the regs. It's like one off the last 2 or 3 pages. All I recall off top of head, is it's a 1 inch minimum mesh size for spot shrimp and a 1/2 minimum for other shrimp (coonstripe, pink). The maximum tunnel widths is variable, depending on the size of the pot. It's a little confusing I'd check the regs. Be sure to weigh em down. I've had them start to drift away on me in even slow currents. The small mesh leads to them being swept away. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@Kado244]

You should do a shellfish quest on crawdads I have a legendary spot I could show you!!!!

[@raymonddoerr2523]

Milk works well as a liquid mix for your shrimp bait. The shrimp like it too :)

[@WAFishQuest]

Appreciate the tip! That makes sense. Thanks!

[@c4snipar]

When they alive, it's sells from anywhere $35 per pound.

[@eyla0824]

Whaaaaaat? They turn into female’s as they get older?? Woaaah

[@Mo_Taser]

I'm a commercial diver in BC and have done a lot of work on salmon farms. Salmon feed, the pellets, make great crab and shrimp bait. No muss, no fuss, cheap, just fill up your bait container and away you go. It was so easy it almost seemed criminal.

[@WAFishQuest]

Whoa! Thanks Mo, I'll give em a try!

[@AuSableAngler]

What is the make and model of the pot puller?

[@WAFishQuest]

it's a Scotty 2500 pot puller.

[@calvinchou9367]

I love the 80 pp limit. At $38/lb. here in California, I never had more than 4 at once. I wonder what its like to eat 80...wow. You left me hanging...you should film you and your friend eating 160 of em at home...Oh man.

[@WAFishQuest]

ha! thanks Calvin. I actually package of them in bags of 30 or so. I usually make it out three times a year (bear in mind, there are only four openers on Hood Canal). I have a family of three, so it's not like I REALLY get to pig out. :)

[@teamrogel]

What bait did you use the second trip? Was it different than what you used the first time?

[@spiltmilt]

Super cool. I am so bummed I didn't get up there this year for the Hood Canal opener. I am going to try out of my kayak at Sequim. Hoping for at least one for my big fishing year.

[@WAFishQuest]

I bet you'll get into them!! Pulling the pot from a kayak will be an adventure for sure (in a good way)!

[@malidaluo3804]

Where is this lake?

[@KoonceTodd]

Love the channel. Keep up the good work. Thanks for posting all of this excellent stuff.

[@cindynelson3849]

That was a good one !! I didnt know shrimp changed gender like that ?? how interesting !? ( I am still laughing you got banned to the garage with that stinky stuff!) got to hear Russell too !!

[@MarkoAbo]

Blake! Why have you stopped making Washington Fishquest videos???

[@WAFishQuest]

Hey Mark! I'm back! Hope to do 8 videos in 2018. Just released one (burbot).

[@Leyenda1]

Why not put the bait into ziplock bags and right before you soak the pot punch holes in the bag? Just a thought...great videos BTW *subscribed!

[@WAFishQuest]

thanks, and that's a great idea!

[@orinator1]

I was already thinking, "mmm, great spot prawn porn!" and then he got all sexy at the end! I just got hold of 2 lbs of live spot prawns and Ima eat 'em today!!

[@wiplash1020]

transgender Shrimp ..... so i have seen it all now

[@foobarmaximus3506]

If you went to school, you would know stuff like this.

[@equitissingularis965]

Nice vid! Would also like to see how you prepare them

[@tomshaeffer36]

Awesome, 15 days and im home again, Crabbing in south sound. And hopefully some crappie fishing and crayfish too. Keep up the great work Blake!!!!!

[@WAFishQuest]

that's great news Tom!!! Safe travels home!

[@04dynagirl]

I'm glad you were safe and didn't get out on questionable ice.

[@PNWSamson]

Nice man!

[@WAFishQuest]

Thank you sir! I did a 101 video on the prawns last summer. Learned a lot about them!

[@PNWSamson]

@@WAFishQuest Yeah dude. I've learned so much making these videos! I was going to incorporate rock formation and underwater geology but it was way out of my league haha

[@joelcr250]

4:29 nice, where do I find those rope spools and what are they called ? on Amazon ?

[@surethingsfly]

Great job Blake! Your making good use of your new boat. Pot's are not a problem over here as there always wash up everywhere ;) I've never seen shrimp that size before. pretty cool! ATB

[@WAFishQuest]

Thanks a ton Peter! Spot shrimp are pretty prized over here-- they're pretty tasty!

[@04dynagirl]

Was the spot prawn segment recent?

[@duane35611]

did you race a sander?

[@levihoward9963]

great video! if you can take suggestions i would love it if you would make a video on salmon any one of the pacific salmon(chinook, chum, coho,sockeye, pink) when season comes.

[@WAFishQuest]

thanks Levi! I'll try to get out after coho this October!

[@justinroberts9966]

Thanks Blake I was always wondering about the spot shrimp in the Northwest. Especially how easy it is to fish for them.

[@WAFishQuest]

Thanks Justin! Tim and I just did okay that first time out too- folks who are really dialed in can get a limit a pull! I think we went a bit deep (given how overcast it was) and bait needed to be soupier.

[@khanhtuannguyen]

great episode, cant wait for the next!

[@WAFishQuest]

thanks a ton Khan! I'll have to go fishing the net few episodes-- I'm leaning on the shellfish a bit too much, ha ha!

[@Losingsince]

Another great video, Blake! I am so pumped for crabbing!

[@WAFishQuest]

thanks a ton Adam! I hope you get your limit!!

[@BennnnyBoooom]

Always glad to see a new video up! Tomorrow is crabbing season!

[@WAFishQuest]

Thanks a ton! That reminds me-- need to renew my boat tabs, ha ha!

[@BennnnyBoooom]

Washington Fish Quest Haha, just got my license today. Going out tomorrow!

[@Donovan_J19]

I guessed 20

[@Bo_in_Seattle]

Nice video, very informative as always.

[@WAFishQuest]

Bo Ttorff thanks a ton Bo!

[@mallorypurdy4613]

was missing your videos, great job, keep it up!!!

[@WAFishQuest]

Thanks a ton! Will do!

[@2005wsoxfan]

Is that a Bass-O-Matic?

[@WAFishQuest]

2005wsoxfan ha ha, I love Dan Aykroyd! great reference! I think it's a bootleg bass-o-matic!

[@wannafishalure]

Great video. I am in anticipation for the next one!

[@WAFishQuest]

thanks a ton Toni! congrats on getting that salmon from that seal!!!

[@familia0494]

2017 here

[@WAFishQuest]

hey 2017-- I think I missed ya! :)

[@SalishSavage-1]

You went way overboard on preping the bait. Just put the bait in the container. Mixing in the blender is doesn't help

[@talulasnow]

I had no pot puller 400ft 40lb

[@WAFishQuest]

awesome! thanks for watching! It tired me out, ha ha!

[@5winder]

Good workout.

[@talulasnow]

tell me about it. lol

[@CloneLTaps]

Not a lie i guess 34 lol

[@lincqimiq5265]

80 shrimps limit in Washington ?? I am from Alaska there no limit . I have commercial shrimp I have 150 stainless 30 inch round pots

[@xvegasmellisx]

I wonder if that's a new thing? Back in the early 90's, my friends and I used to go out to Edmonds pier with our homemade shrimp traps we made from chicken wire. We used cat food cans tied down with pipe cleaners. In a couple hours we would fill a 5-gallon bucket and go home. haha Unless there was a limit and we didn't know it!

[@jagerpro978]

lol homoshrimp awesome!!

[@WAFishQuest]

thanks for watching! very interesting life history!

[@redwood9741]

...only Canadians call spot shrimp.... Spot prawns..We in Alaska would confront the Canadians on being stupid..but we don't want them to send out their one boat to battle us..can't fight if you are laughing too hard..lol Prawns only live in fresh and brackish waters thru out the world in..2.5 percent salt water or less..The pacific ocean is. about 3.5 percent salt..and that is where shrimp live..until we eat them.

[@utgeorge]

Prawns can stand upright and shrimp can,t. They fall over.