Got a few shrimp yesterday

[potbuilder]

I was out yesterday (monday) shrimping and thought i'd post some pictures of the fishing. It turned out to be a beautiful day, calm & sunny & i caught about 600 shrimp for the day with a total soak time of 7 hours. They are NOT westmarine pots, I build the pots myself.

landing the first pot of the string, hope they are all this good

the catch from 5 pots soaked for 2 hours, i don't soak them long.

[griff]

Any difference between the ones you build and the ones I can buy at westmarine? I use the good mesh net round ones that stack well.

[Ripface]

Excuse me, sir, but I will have to confiscate those shrimp. I'll be by this morning. Please have them packed on ice. Thank you.

[potbuilder]

Griff,
There is a lot of difference, my pots are built of Aquamesh a high grade galvanized/vinyl coated wire that is used for lobster pots back east, they are fastened with heavy duty aluminum clips instead of tiny hog rigs (big clip = stronger pot) and most importantly the tunnels are completly different than those that wm has. I have compared the results of wm pots to mine with friends who fish them and it seems to average that mine fish about 2-3 times better and thats with a shorter soak time. I lobster fished commercialy for 25 years back east so i have a good idea of what i am doing when it comes to building pots. I presantly fish commercialy(gillnet) in PWS & Cordova.
Ripface,
You need to get your own pots cause you'll have a hard time getting me to give up my shrimp!

[Ripface]

I'm not quite ready to get a few pots, but when I am, I'll contact you.

[Bernard R Rosenberg]

Santa Shrimper!

Yo!
Your are it!
All you need is the red suit and spectacles!

Thanks for the interesting images...

[preed]

shrimp

hey steve, where are you getting those? valdez homer ...?

[potbuilder]

I fish out of whittier. Thats all i'm gonna say!

[preed]

haha yeah thats all i thought id get anyway...

[Alaska Gray]

Good haul were they all spots?

[Tom]

What other sorts of critters do you see in your pots regularly? Also, how much do you charge for a standard pot?

[Gary W.]

Steve's pots do work good!

I bought a couple of pots from Steve last spring. Made 2 multi-day trips out of Whittier in July and August. I had no clue what I was doing, but in spite of that fact, I caught hundreds of shrimp each trip. Don't know why I didn't start shrimping 20 years ago.
Steve::: I will be contacting you one of these days to talk about purchasing a couple more pots. They are strong and easy to use. I see no comparison to others out there on the market. Thanks
Now I gotta come up with a pot puller!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pulling by hand was kind of fun at first, but it got old real quick at 400 to 500 feet deep.

[potbuilder]

Gary,
Glad to hear that the pots are fishing well for you. Give me a call when you are ready or just to BS about fishing out on the sound. Thanks for the endorsement.
Tom,
About the only other critters i've caught have been a few well fed octopus that ate all the shrimp in my pots. I pm'ed you with info on the pots.

[griff]

Have you used the round mesh netting ones before? If so, found any advantage or disadvatage of yours? I used 5 west marine pots, but bought 5 of the round ones that stack very easily just for the sake of taking up less room. They are easier to get the shrimp out of too.