V-Bay Report -5/13

[Fourreel]

Headed out to the pass this morning for a few hours of fishing. Was able to find a couple of spots around marsh island with decent water. We ended up with 3 reds & 3 flounder.

Natural gulp shrimp with red lead on bottom & vodoo shrimp under a cork is what we hooked up on.


If you have a trawl head to the bay, I have never seen shrimp running like I did today!!

[Montauk17]

Originally Posted by Fourreel

Headed out to the pass this morning for a few hours of fishing. Was able to find a couple of spots around marsh island with decent water. We ended up with 3 reds & 3 flounder.

Natural gulp shrimp with red lead on bottom & vodoo shrimp under a cork is what we hooked up on.


If you have a trawl head to the bay, I have never seen shrimp running like I did today!!

Where did you see shrimp? I talked to game wardens last week they were sampling said they didnt pick up much.

[Fourreel]

About 500 yards due south of camps at the point.

[Montauk17]

Wardens were trolling on the west side....guess they need to sample more to the east.

[rustyb]

Shrimping opened today.

[Montauk17]

Just checked wlf website....everywhere is open cept for everything west of vbay opens may 27th. Thanks for the heads up some fresh shrimp is hard to beat.

[rustyb]

We trawled today and did well in the bay.

[haoward]

is they anywhere in the bay that you can cast net for shrimp? or the rock is the best place to get your limit?

[Montauk17]

Trout should be there somewhere too then. Crazy the water has any salt at all with the river at 15 foot. 7ppt by fearman

[Montauk17]

Originally Posted by haoward

is they anywhere in the bay that you can cast net for shrimp? or the rock is the best place to get your limit?

Weirs inside redfish point south of intracoastal and weirs inside marsh island. Rockefeller does not open for shrimp till may 27th.

[rustyb]

Originally Posted by Montauk17

Trout should be there somewhere too then. Crazy the water has any salt at all with the river at 15 foot. 7ppt by fearman

There are trout that are being caught in the cove. We caught several trout in the trawl today. Saw a couple in a nautic star
coming out yesterday with 37 nice trout. Said they caught em under some birds.

[Montauk17]

Good deal...shrimp decent size?

[rustyb]

25 percent real nice, 75percent med/small. We trolled in a fishing boat with a small troll and caught 175 pounds. Had fun

[Montauk17]

Nothing wrong with that! What size trawl you got? I have a 12 footer would like to get a 16.

[rustyb]

It was a 16ft. I was invited to go with a friend. I have not done that in a long time. And I thought we did pretty good.But it was very rough this morn. 25ft gravois. The bigger boats did very good.

[RedfishPoker]

Good to hear the spring shrimp season opener in the bay did very WELL. Thanks for the shrimp report!

[RedfishPoker]

is they anywhere in the bay that you can cast net for shrimp? or the rock is the best place to get your limit?

Depend on how shrimp is running -

Originally Posted by Montauk17

Weirs inside redfish point south of intracoastal and weirs inside marsh island. Rockefeller does not open for shrimp till may 27th.

Correct! You can still cast net some shrimp up to 10 lb at Rockefeller until the 27th then increasing to 25 lb of shrimp limit.

All weirs inside under State Wildlife refuge in V-Bay limit is 25 lb during the shrimp season open.

[Montauk17]

Well yall convinced me.....boat is hooked up ready to roll in the morning.

[Fourreel]

We did see school trout chasing the shrimp but couldn't catch them. Too much bait in the water I guess.

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by RedfishPoker

is they anywhere in the bay that you can cast net for shrimp? or the rock is the best place to get your limit?

Depend on how shrimp is running -



Correct! You can still cast net some shrimp up to 10 lb at Rockefeller until the 27th then increasing to 25 lb of shrimp limit.

All weirs inside under State Wildlife refuge in V-Bay limit is 25 lb during the shrimp season open.

X2

That's 25lbs per boat though. Not per person.