Oakbayfishin
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Has anyone had any success prawning off the Victoria waterfront or oak bay/ haro straight area? Not looking for coordinates just a general idea. Thanks
"If all goes according to plan I’ll get skunked all around.”
outa a hali’s Gut a couple months
We are in a different area than you, but we have had much better catches when leaving the traps down overnight.I have never performed an overnight soak. I pull them anywhere between 2 to 4 hrs. Can someone share their experience if they have dropped prawn traps in the same area for a few hour soak and in the same area on an overnight soak... Will you get more prawns when soaked overnight or are the numbers prawns you get in the traps the same after a certain number of hours or could you even get less on an overnight soak? Eg, prawns leaving when they have their fill.
So if you accidentally drop too deep, which can easily happen, your traps float so you don't lose them. It's not the buoy that's the problem here it's lack of weight or an anchor.The part I don't get about set up. Why use a float big enough to float your trap. Wouldn't it be better to use lots of weight on your trap to keep it where you left it? Even if the tide pushes your floats under water the trap will still be there the next low slack. If the buoy is big enough to float the trap, it will be gone. The tide could carry something a long way in a few hours.