What a disgrace, a few hours on two days, go join a bazillion wankers who set their gear right up-tide of yours and then wonder why it gets tangled up, and then you can't turn your head or that same wanker cuts your gear loose! I did not even bother this year.

Another thing that seems off...in years of bad shrimping, DFW extends the season so we can catch more of the weak shrimp population, then on good years they cut it off quickly, when populations are likely strong....the logic of that kind of management strategy escapes me.

The only good thing to happen recently during shrimping was when the tide changed year before last about noon, created a tangled mass of at least 50 pots, which all exited east into the shipping lanes, and then north towards Whidbey hanging beneath a cluster of floats....quite amusing watching the pursuit flotilla fade away while trying to recover them.