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threw out a killie trap at my dock with a fresh bunker head for bait..10 minutes i have almost 2 dozen grass shrimp, all around 1 inch long, some slightly bigger.

 

i know these get eaten, im already thinking of how theyd taste sauteed in some garlic, butter and red pepper..so how do you fish these lil buggers?

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Honestly I don't know how people fish them unless you fish off a boat or dock somewhere with weak current.... Wouldn't they just rip off ?

 

I'd eat em lol.

 

i know boat fish dont count, but i'll be fishing them from one..ive been reading chumming and then floating a few of these on a hook in the chum slick..anyone? :confused:

 

im thinking they'll be good dredged in some seasoned flour and flash fried...shrimp fries?

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I don't fish bait,only flies,but I've been using an imitation of those shrimp the last few years that the bass seem to not be able to refuse.Not so much oceanside but in the bays around cockle beds,inlets,flats at flood and near the edges on low,cutbank/marsh type areas...anywhere you might find them. A 36" fish and the flies.1765830


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I don't fish bait,only flies,but I've been using an imitation of those shrimp the last few years that the bass seem to not be able to refuse.Not so much oceanside but in the bays around cockle beds,inlets,flats at flood and near the edges on low,cutbank/marsh type areas...anywhere you might find them. A 36" fish and the flies.

 

thats what im thinking. a few on a hook with some light weight in a nice deep hole in a local channel, just not sure what kinda rig to set these up on

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Thread one or two on long shaft hook. let it drift back with a small handful of shrimp. Use this method for weakfish also. If fresh water fishing just one shrimp on the hook gets very good bites.

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"Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after.".... Henry David Thoreau

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Ok, little history here. first you have to keep them alive. Usually in wet sea grass or news print when using, when not a fine mesh killey cart. Now you use a fine wire hook and put two on with little or no weight. Than at the end or beginning of the tide chum them by taking one and pinching it just behind the head and dropping it into the water one at a time, drifting them back into a bridge ( something like clam chumming ). This was how the old timers fished for Weakfish, a real art. In Eroupe they make a Shrimp scampi out of very small shrimp the same size as our grass shrimp, it's more like a shrimp soup but unbelievably good.

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