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Originally Posted by berettafan
Whoa too cool we have a waterman here! What sort of shrimp were you catching there?
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Pink shrimp and sometimes side stripes. If we towed in the shallow side of the channel, we could catch a pile of prawns which were larger.
We had a 47’ Japanese beam trawl net and it worked pretty well. We also had a door trawl that towed a lot faster but didn’t fish as well.
This boat, the Darlene T, wasn’t well setup for shrimping as it was originally built for Gillnetting salmon on the Fraser River and we converted it for salmon trolling as well. It would only hold 1500-2000 lbs of shrimp because you would do 30% ice. We added a deck tote so I could take another 700 pounds of shrimp before we had to deliver.
I could fill the boat in a day and a half but then it was a 2 day turn around run to Ucluelet to deliver.
At 17, I was the youngest skipper on the west coast.