Not often That East Coast of North Carolina Boat Ramps are Covered With Snow and Ice……1/22/2025
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Grass-Shrimp....(2) Mature Adults...
These adult shrimp are roughly 1.5 to 2 inches long when they reach maturity....
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Comment by Bruce Tomaselli on November 29, 2014 at 8:19am
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Thanks for posting. I've never seen a grass shrimp.
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on November 29, 2014 at 5:45am
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These are the Dagger Blade type pictured.....look closely at the spear coming off near the eyes.......I catch just as many trophy class gills on grass shrimp as I do on crickets in the Albemarle region.......they occur naturally in these waters and as Jim suggested......everything hits them!
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Comment by Jim Gronaw on November 28, 2014 at 9:32pm
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The dominant specie is the 'dagger blade grass shrimp' and the can dominate as much as 60% of the macro invertebrates found in some tidal estuaries on the Atlantic slope. They are an incredible bait source for many species and the foundation of my favorite panfish patterned jig.
Lots of guys are tying the grass shrimp patterns now, and they're catching fish! A good thing!
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Yes John.......native to all coastal waters here in coastal North Carolina......I catch them for bait in a few area ponds and small lakes.......an exceptional panfish bait.......
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Comment by John Sheehan on November 28, 2014 at 6:05pm
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Tidal waters shrimp ?
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Comment by dick tabbert on November 28, 2014 at 5:23pm
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Thanks for sharing Jeffrey us fly tiers like this kind of stuff.
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Got about 60 nice adult grass shrimp for tipping this weekend.......
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Female Shrimp are pretty big with the egg sacks in the Spring but throughout the Summer and into the Fall I catch the biggest grass shrimp Jim......Early summer you catch thousands of half-inch hatchlings but they grow fast through the summer......They do make an auduble clicking David that we can't detect but I'm sure they trigger the lateral lines on many big gills.........
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Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on November 26, 2012 at 11:50am
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I wonder how they appear to fish, in the water.
Also I'm sure these things have a sound and motion signature that the fish are attuned to. Interesting. Now I need to add a stout catch net to my pile of gear.
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Good idea...I think 'size-per-season ' imitations are one of the keys to the shrimp phenomena in the blackwaters.
Do you notice larger shrimp during the fall period of the year?
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