who trawl for shrimp?

[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'

[swamp snorkler]

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'

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.

[keakar]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

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.

it used to be but they changed it to 25' and raised the prices on commercials plus a lot more regulation.

maybe they change it since the last time I looked so I checked:

from DWLF

recreational trawls up to 16ft the license is $25
recreational trawls 16ft to 25ft the license is $80

and the limitations are:

.

Trawling During Open Season

and Possession Limits

.

During the open shrimping seasons trawls

25 feet and less are allowed for recreational

purposes.

Recreational shrimpers using trawls 16 feet

in length or less are limited to 100 pounds

(heads on) of shrimp per boat per day.

Recreational shrimpers using trawls between

16 and 25 feet in length are limited to no

more than 250 pounds of (heads-on) shrimp

per day per boat per day, if the shrimp taken

are used for bait or the fisherman’s own

consumption and are not sold, traded or otherwise

permitted to enter commerce.