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'