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Hood Canal Shrimping May 2019
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Feb 5, 2025
Shrimping on Hood Canal out of Seabeck area. Getting limits early and even pulling up an Octopus in one of our pots! We discuss shrimping locations on Hood Canal, a little bit about bait, round vs square pots and of course the star of the show, the octo dude that came up aboard.
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welcome to another video edition of
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Pacific Northwest best life you can
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always go to pmw best life calm for
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everything you need to know to
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experience the great outdoor recreation
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of the Pacific Northwest today we are
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looking at another shrimping trip here
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we launched out of Seebeck on Hood Canal
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see Bex got a nice one-lane boat launch
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free parking with the discover path
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today I went shrimping with my good
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buddy Tim here and here we are waiting
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for 9 a.m. to drop our first pots of the
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day there's a lot of locations around
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Seebeck to shrimp we'll cover a few of
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them here you can actually shrimp right
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out front of the the boat ramp there in
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front of Seebeck there's a lot of boats
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that were targeting that area
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additionally the DOS Wallops shoreline
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had a lot of folks and we maybe you can
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sell the most boats out front a big beef
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harbor a little east of the of the boat
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ramp you don't have to go very far to
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find a good shrimping location out of
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Seebeck we launched pretty early as we
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were looking for what you see here on
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the sonar which is good signs of shrimp
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and these little clouds little clusters
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and that 250 to 300 foot range we found
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a lot of signs of shrimp really all over
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all over the area around Seebeck we
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ended up in a little small part of d-bob
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Bay and you know had pretty good company
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a few other boats there probably 1015
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other boats there but for the most part
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we were able to find some areas as you
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can see here in the video like you know
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there's not really any other boats in
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view although there were several around
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we were able to find some areas with
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with less competition a little bit less
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shrimp but I like to you know unless
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unless they're really thick I like to
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try to find some areas with shrimp that
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have maybe a few less people a little
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bit less bait and
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sometimes you do a little better here we
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are just dropping our first for a few
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pots of the day love this little hose
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real situation here for line management
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the biggest challenge in shrimping
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really a lot of times is line management
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you know you got 400 feet of ledcor line
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for each pot and you know having a good
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good handle on that is key to having a
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successful day here I think we got our
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last pot down and now we're we're
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bringing up we're bringing up our first
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shrimp pot of the day this was probably
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the bend of being the best pot of the
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day as I think cuz the Sun came up the
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shrimp moved around a bit we can quite
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hit him is good on some of the other
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pots still got our limits pretty fast
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with just the two of us so ended up
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being a good day good 30
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good start yeah I'll take it figure out
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how all this jelly man
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haha I got the Lord one of the things I
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like to do with my bait as we're
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shrimping is kind of dump out whatever
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whatever didn't wash out in the current
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dump it back into the bait cooler just
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kind of mix it around here rehydrated I
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use shrimp and prawn pellets mixed with
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cat food and canned mackerel and I don't
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grind up the pellets I like to keep them
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whole they absorb a lot of the liquid
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and oils from a mackerel the cat food or
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that shrimp well I'll pour in there and
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this way you actually kind of you know
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go through quite as much bait ideally
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you have some bait in the bottom of your
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jar you don't want it to all wash out
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like your shrimping and now you can just
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dump that back in in the big cooler mix
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it around and go for it again so that's
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kind of what we're doing here is we're
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pulling up let's read from this fire
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move this shrimp not too bad
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probably about 25 in there
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yeah nice big one
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one of the things you'll see us doing
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here is we've got a round pot pulling up
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most of the Puget Sound shrimping is
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done with these square pots they fish
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really fast really well you see the
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round pots more in the San Juans or in
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the Strait and I'd been having some
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trouble with my round pots with them
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rolling on me
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based on how is ringing them you have to
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rig them a little differently than the
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square pots too to make sure they don't
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roll and finally got that kink worked
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out here on this trip placing the pot
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anchor actually on the pot and just
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making sure that it's set flat and flush
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with the sea bottom before throwing all
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the extra rope overboard so it's pretty
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happy to get that sorted out so I'll be
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going up to the Strait next week doing a
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little shrimping up there with with more
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of these round pots that can really they
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can they can out fish the square ones in
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the right conditions we had a quite a
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surprise and what we pulled up in the
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round pot we have these
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he's like stuck to everything he's in oh
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look at these eyes look at him
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holy cow dude I think we can keep them I
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don't want to keep him man
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okay I don't want to keep them oh that's
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so awesome
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put them on the gram yeah let's throw
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these shrimp over and try to go get
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somewhere I do that it's so awesome
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let's toss with you
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you good yep all right little guy -
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lucky day I think it's your lucky day
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it's like stuck to everything whoa look
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at that guy oh that one's stabbing me
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I'm like what the heck is that well
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we're rail dumping one of our pots here
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cuz we limited really release oh and
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head back to the launch but you can see
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I'm uh swimming away here it'll be any
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finger that one out thank you oh don't
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lose that yeah I started using parachute
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cord on my weight because that's rock
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that crap happens when you uh I haven't
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had a rafter that stuff happens when you
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shake it a bunch that was almost a bad
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deal
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