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Originally Posted by keakar
go with the 25' net its the biggest you can use under a recreational trawling license and its about all you can handle without being very hard work and needing a big boat. you don't want a commercial license unless you think you are going to be selling shrimp.
if you have a flat boat maybe a 20' net but under 25' what you catch drops off dramatically.
think of it this way, 50% of the trawl size is the wings that don't catch anything for you so you have a 25' trawl your catching shrimp with about 13'-14' of that net. if you drop to a 20' net you have 10' catching something, 16' you drop to 8' catching.
16' is considered a test trawl for bigger boats pulling 35' and up trawls
I used to trawl with a 16' net that caught very well and averaged around 5 lbs shrimp in a half hour drag while people pulling 25' trawls nearby were catching an average of 10-12 lbs in a half hour.
if you want shrimp get the 25' net, if you just want it for live bait plus a few pounds of shrimp then get something smaller like a 16'
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Check into this info. I think it's 16' and under for a rec license and you can only have up to 100 lb shrimp........ I could be wrong though.
Haoward best advice I can give is to leave it to the pros. But I'll say this, when I don't have to work anymore I'm buying a trawl boat set up to skim........ I rather do that than fish, crawfish, crab, or hunt.