Puget Sound - Spot Shrimp Opener

Needless to say, all of the popular spot shrimp fishing spots were inundated with high concentrations of boats and gear all trying to catch their limits of these fantastic tasting crustaceans. We have talked with a number of our customers that had fished the Edmonds / Brown's Bay area and all had no problems in getting their limits. In fact, they said that they had to dump their additional gear as they had limits in their first couple of pots. They said without a doubt that it was the best shrimping that they had seen. We also talked with people in the Clinton area that had done well also, though there seemed to be a little gear conflict. There were a number of individuals that did not leave enough room between pots that resulted in a lot of gear getting tangled! Make sure that you leave enough room between gear to alleviate this problem. It seemed that there was a lot of participation in the fishery this year. Joe took a drive down the hill and said that there must have been at least a 100 or more boats in the Brown's Bay area alone!

The WDFW will crash the numbers in the next few days and we'll see how many additional days that we recieve to fish.