queensland Shrimp Questions

[Zim man]

hi all

silly questions, but i bought some freshwater shrimp to take the kids (and their firends)  fishing and my aerator died, so most of the shrimp have followed suit.  Will bass still take them or am i wasting my time with it?

cheers

Rob

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey Zim man

I would not be sure, as I have only ever used them live in the Upper Brisbane River, but I would assume they would still go OK very fresh. I've still had luck on them both dead/live in saltwater, so there's no reason why you couldn't do the same in the fresh. The only problem I think might be the catfish/vermin get to them before bass...

Live baits would probably attract more activity, and attract more fish. I'm sure @rayke1938 would know - he is the shrimp-bass-meister!  

Cheers Hamish

[ellicat]

G'day Rob, Nice to hear from you.

Unfortunately I think you'd be wasting your time with dead shrimp. My experience in the fresh is they won't get a touch when dead.

A similar thing happened to me recently , but it was user error in
my case. haha

A trip to Aratula might be on the cards if you're heading that way ?? I assume you have his number ?

[Zim man]

yeah mate, i will give him a call to see if he has more, he was running low this week

 

[Drop Bear]

19 hours ago, Zim man said:

yeah mate, i will give him a call to see if he has more, he was running low this week

 

Bugger... Live ones are the go. I can give you some maggots if you want to give them a go? 

[Zim man]

On 05/09/2020 at 5:26 AM, Drop Bear said:

Bugger... Live ones are the go. I can give you some maggots if you want to give them a go? 

thanks for the offer mate, i ended up going to his farm and getting them there.  he has a very cool set up

[Drop Bear]

18 minutes ago, Zim man said:

thanks for the offer mate, i ended up going to his farm and getting them there.  he has a very cool set up

Yep its a great place to visit. 

[Drop Bear]

glad you worked it all out.