02/04/14 – Oak Hill Shrimping Report
Oak Hill Shrimping Report – 2/04/14
Capt Lee enjoys shrimping in Oak Hill Florida, the shrimping Capital of Florida. Her reports are both informative and educational.
My shrimping lights I used were (2) GW 75/75 MacDaddy with the green and white strip. I fired off both strips. My light configuration was 9pm and 3 pm set. Imagine looking at a clock. I pulled the 6pm scout light which I deploy when I want to upwell the fat daddy’s lurking lower in the water column. If there are none, I pull the light and in this case I pulled the 3rd light.
Sorry, No template report with percent size break down. My dipping partner took the crickets home to clean since I have court today (MacDaddy shrimp lights vs. Native Waters Bait Store in Edgewater Florida) and I have no time to clean them.
Court went great, the Judge found Native Waters guilty for not paying the MacDaddy light builder $1700+ dollars. In my opinion, this bait store redefines slime. They still have not paid the judgement since being found guilty. Their defense was I stole and sold them. Gee, nice try Native Waters but it is hard to steal from an account I co-signed for which stealing from myself would have no benefit.
Total – 3 gallons
- Set up horizontal in strong current due to strong SW wind, 2 anchors in a rip line
- Deployed frame net on pipe? Why? Dum Dum wanted to calibrate new Shumaker bridal lines to pipe with permanent hardware and hooks. Everyone knows I like the top bar out of the water, and I had to put adjustible O-rings on lines to shorten them to 10 inches for easy hook to ring on pipe. So zoned in on getting the new shumaker net tweaked out, I never gave it a thought if there were debris issues…. Ugh Boy, nightmare.
- Dip stream was constant, onsy with occasional twosy, both dippers kept busy on slow stream
- 2 light setup, water got clear, water got dirty, 3 lights would have been to my detrriment, did a stair step deployment, East light higher than my West light.
- Deployed (2) MacDaddy Mega Macs, fired off green and white strip for 150 LED’s. NO center light, goal post deployment
- Anchored in 13.2 foot of water, water temp was 71 degrees
- Sizes, consistent and impressive for Oak Hill, mostly super fat upper 4″+ with many in the 5-6″ so it appeared, waiting on Fish On to give us a total sort by sizes and actual size. This is why I hate to guess, we painfully sort so we can give you statistics
- Shrimp ran on top water and deep at times, we had a high percent of shrimp that blew off the bottom and ascended to top (shrimp that you do not mark in the light field and you see them rising to the top right in front of you. These were the mediums running 4 foot or deeper we got to change course to source dark water above the top of the light. Popped up about 3 foot in front of boat. Had a second to react.
- Massive grass waves riding the rip lines, marked at all depths
- Water clarity was clean, dirty, clean…be careful you do not over light the area, shrimp stream is weak and back down on your light field strength or you will drive them away.
- DO NOT deploy frame net when you see straw grass in the river, BEWARE of massive grass presence.
- Attach small buoy to your shrimp lights, saved my light.
- When setting anchors during out going tide, throw 1 on one side, and other one opposite side (cross anchor), it will hold your boat horizontal in strong currents.
