Thread: Grass Shrimp

Welcome to the CC from North Alabama. I used to raise em to fish with em. I think I'll stick to minnows for live bait.

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Trout loved them. I wonder why crappie dont

Takeum, we did but to be honest we always caught the shrimp in hyacinth roots or scooping a net in shallow grass but would fish them in deep water while drowning minnows.

When the specs were feeding on shrimp, in the places the shrimp live, I always felt like I could catch just as many as I wanted on jigs. I always loved fishing hyacinth mats by dropping a jig through any hole I could find and jigging the bait very close to the surface. The key was to keep it at the same level or a few millimeters below the roots which housed the gass shrimp.

an article i read said around 80% of a mature black crappie's diet was one of the large number of different kinds of freshwater shrimp.
i met a biologist at one lake ketchn bluegill to identify how many varieties of shrimp lived in that lake .
i had no idea there were so many different species of them .
thats just hear in Texas , i bet way far east of here the numbers of species is larger .
Sk and I watch them at night under marina lights with crappie taking them off the surface .
never used them for bait but i hear tell they work quite well .

321Specn'....Grass shrimp in Florida is kinda a generational pass-down thing & yes have heard plenty of quick limit stories using them on crappie...as mentioned in another post would image they work best near shore/source vs open water, think a simple hook, split shot, & bobber...start w/1 on hook & experiment w/multiple to see how they react...a follow up post w/results would be interesting...

Originally Posted by 321Speckn

First year chasing speck and loving it. Majority of my speck have been slap full of grass shrimp. My question is for those of yall that have used grass shrimp for bait, how did you go about using them? Multiple on a hook? Slip bobber? Had good luck using them?

Appreciate the advice! (Central Florida area)


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Fish also love Baby crawfish, the kind you find on side of road in a ditch.

That’s funny,,,you find crawfish in ditches and up north we found baby eels in ditches