Prawning

[Eagle Eyes]

What Mr. Dean posted is all I could find as well.

 

[tyee hunter]

they should close howe sound (area 28) up as well, last time i checked, they stocks weren,t that great

 

[Red Monster]

"had the traps out off Nanaimo for just over an hour yesterday, and got 140- not bad I think."

That's quite a haul, Mr. Eyes! Whereabouts is this huge gathering of prawns?


Remember, it's called "fishing," not "catching."

 

[Eagle Eyes]

I'm not too keen on giving up specific details of prawning locations, but it's safe to say 300-400 feet of water near a rocky drop off around neck point,snake island, or entrance island/cannery(backside of snake as well) will get you a good catch....as long as your traps dont get run over by the ferries(not fun atall)

 

[Tailspin]

We Have a new maddog imposter!

 

[Eagle Eyes]

I dont get it?....

anyway does anyone know when the commercial season begins?

 

[Red Monster]

Thanks for the info Mr. Eyes! Moms the word!

I think the maddog may have been poking fun at himself: perhaps something to do with ultra-top-secret fishing locations. <img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>

For good reasons, I understand that nobody wants to publicize his fishing holes for the whole darn world.

I've also wondered the whereabouts folks refer to when they mention prawning at the Flat Top Islands: It seems like a rather huge area, and I've often wondered about a more specific area into which to drop a couple of traps.

Grrrrrrrrr....

Down Maddog! Down!


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Remember, it's called "fishing," not "catching."

Edited by - Red Monster on 04/01/2005 17:29:01

 

[Eagle Eyes]

freinds of mine once got 250ish out there the only time they tried (4 traps, but again I don't know specifically where, just look for a deep drop off (300-400) and then experiment... thats how we've found our areas after about 2-3 trial runs you'll probly find a nice spot, hopefully one noone knows about<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

 

[explorer185]

Where would the Flat Top Islands be??

 

[Eagle Eyes]

Back end of gabriola near valdez island. Used to be great for lingcod too till that got closed.

 

[explorer185]

Too far from Victoria, but thanks for letting me know.

 

[Eagle Eyes]

no problemo, if you have heavy enough traps I'd look at some of the rocky drops around the sooke/pedder bay area on my chart it looks like the right kind of structure just the current could be a major issue.

 

[Malibuguy]

Does anyone know what those little Flea things are that sometimes get into your bait can when you are prawning? It seems that when they get in there you don't get hardly any prawns. Is there some baits that get these things less often or something that you do to not get these? They just seem to me to be a random pest that may infest the bait. They may get into 1 trap in a line of traps.Personally I use cat food or salmon scraps for bait.

 

[Charter Tofino]

Dont seem to affect my catch? I always get them when useing catfood.

 

[Whaler]

Malibuguy to stop the sealice from raiding your cat food I only use a knife edge slits in My catfood "CARLYLE" so the little buggers can not get inside and eat all the goodies Works for me !!!!

 

[Eagle Eyes]

I catch a lot of prawns and I always have massive amounts of those little critters and they dont seem to pose any problem other then the hassle of cleaning them out of the boat. I use fish farm pellets if that helps?

 

[jamaf]

I was prawing off of Crofton. My first time out and my fishing buddy and I got near 400 prawns. Does anyone have plans for a home made prawn trap puller???

 

[Eric]

Wow, great job. I took the family outside of Crofton and threw 3 traps down. And brought 3 prawns up. We caught (only kept 2) more rock cod than prawns!