Best place to get shrimp is the Super Store grocery. Look in the frozen fish department for boxes of Thai shrimp, heads on. A box is about $10 and you get 30 or more shrimp. I let them thaw over night and they're good to go the next morning. I pierce them behind the head, thread the hook through until I can swivel the shrimp enough to pierce it again thru the tail. If I'm having trouble keeping the shrimp on the hook, small pieces of elastic band works well holding them in place.

Rob

 

More or less I do the same as Rob but I buy the headless shrimp, good luck !!

 

Bought some 'medium' size shrimp (heads on) 400g for $4.99 at an Oriental Grocery store (don't remember the name) corner of Mountain and McPhillips street.

 

Bought some 'medium' size shrimp (heads on) 400g for $4.99 at an Oriental Grocery store (don't remember the name) corner of Mountain and McPhillips street.

Youngs

 

is shrimp or goldeye working right now?

we used goldeye last weekend but nothing bit.... albeit, off shore and mid-day = perfect combo to not catch

 

And that's why it's called fishing and not catching ...*grin*....

 

Was out Monday evening, used sucker, hammered the Cats and afew Drum throw in. fished for 4 hrs 25 - 30 cats between the two of us.

 

Was out tuesday night was using shrimp and caught 25 drum in 2 hours. No cats the fight just isn't the same
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They were smashing goldeye last night. Same results with the shrimp, just a few drum. Had some leftover tullibee and had a bit of action on that as well. Goldeye seemed to be the ticket.

 

Where does one get goldeye? Sold in stores? Want to go straight to cat fishing, don't want to fish for them.

 

Where does one get goldeye? Sold in stores? Want to go straight to cat fishing, don't want to fish for them.

why buy the milk when you get the cow for free?

cwutididthere?

you're doin' it wrong. to answer the Q, no idea. I can afford the 5 minutes it takes to setup and catch my bait. :envy:

 

Catching your bait is half the fun. I like people with lots of money, can i sell you something. :shock:

 

I'm going Goldeye hunting tomorrow night so I have bait for my Kitties friday night

 

We are planning on cats this weekend but would like to get ahold of some frogs. Can anyone tell me where I can find some? PLEASE....

 

We are planning on cats this weekend but would like to get ahold of some frogs. Can anyone tell me where I can find some? PLEASE....

Hit the field at the end of the Peguis bridge on main st next to the sh!t plant... Thousands of hoppers in there

 

We are planning on cats this weekend but would like to get ahold of some frogs. Can anyone tell me where I can find some? PLEASE....

Hit the field at the end of the Peguis bridge on main st next to the sh!t plant... Thousands of hoppers in there

Thanks

Cheers!

 

to early for frogs, go goldeye.

 

don't kill frogs until you need to, Goldeye , sucker, shrimp are all working great right now

 

X2. There are lots of Goldeye in the river just now. Cats ran 75% trophies yesterday.

 

Hooked up 40-45 cats today guiding clients and the preferred bait was Goldeye. Sucker second and shrimp third. Literally used all the bait. What a day. Counted 26 boats in the are from the bridge to a little past COTR.

 

That's a heck of a day! ictures:

 

Hey snomad we saw you out there we where to your left down river a bit we only fish 4hrs but what numbers approx 30. Don't you love triple headers when you are guiding, you where having fun on the net. Yes goldeye was number one. Average size was good all so, but those pesky drum. A great morning.

 

Sucker and Goldeye were the ticket today. Me and my buddy managed to boat 18 Cats, all 33" or better. 11 of them were masters and I managed a new PB at 37".

 

It was a busy net day. There were a lot of fish dropped today too, otherwise I think it would have been a new record in the boat. Two biggest were 37" and 38". The 37" went 28lbs and the 38" was a pound lighter, weighed in the net with the net weight subtracted. That 37"er had shoulders. You've got to have real good timing to manage the pictures of triple headers without stressing the fish. Had two pictures of triples last year on clients cameras that went AWOL. I am going to make up some sort of net cradle to weigh the odd large cat in. I had to stand on my seat and hold the net up real high with the scale to try to weigh those two and it was very hard to get a stable reading with my arms shaking from the strain. I won't use the lip grabber to weigh fish or any type of hook scale. Way too much stress on the fish. I see way too many big cats being held up with lip grabbers and IMO it's not great for the fish. As a guide it would be great to have a trough shaped bump board with a built in scale. Every fish weighed and measured in seconds!