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I'm wanting to make a run to the coast to pick up some shrimp straight off the boat, some oysters and then pick up some crawfish on the way back. My question is for those who do this sort of thing. I hear you can get em a lot cheaper doing it like that than going to the supermarket and getting them. So where do I start, do I need connections at the dock or can I just go pick em up. Where do I need to go?
I have a contact name and number I will send you, this guy will start making weekly runs up north here before long, but you pay a good bit more for delivery. His family runs a few boats on the MS gulf coast from what I understand. May wanna post this in the Louisiana Forum as well, may find a better contact.
I would appreciate that. Trying to cut out the middle man prices, so I don't mind making the trip. I posted over there right after I posted here
PM sent, he does all kinds of fish, shrimp (whites & royal reds good size), oysters, but don't believe he messes with mud bugs..
O man this sounds good!! I'm taking a planning a trip to Louisiana next year just to sinfully devour fresh seafoods. Don't care nothing about bourbon street or none of that just point me towards the best eateries. And a good fishing hole between meals. :biggrin
Bourbon is a must, La Bayou is one great eatery! Acme is also another good place that's right on Bourbon. The food down there is amazing!
You all are driving me nutz(short drive I Know). Would give a leg for the fresh(real) seafood.Can u tell food is one of my major priorities? Enjoy the best there is.......
Stick to Louisiana for the pickup, and probably for the prepared food too...
We'll be staying on a Bama beach for a week soon. I googled local seafood, found 2 places within walking distance, they are for retail raw and cooked sales. The marina is 8 miles away, hope to get better prices there.
I have went to the marina behind the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi before and got shrimp there.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bi...!4d-88.8849706
Shrimp and such sounds great. Oysters not so much this time of year. May, June, July, August not good months for them according to legend.
BRM
When is the best overall fresh seafood time of year for the gulf
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Checking shrimp prices at the 2 retail shops on the beach, $10 per lb plus $2 to steam if you want them ready to eat.
Kroger will put a sale on every now and then. Large/jumbo $8.50 to $10 per lb. These have shell split and deveined.
I hope to find prices a lot less at the marina.
what scrat said. i go to that marina twice a year to buy shrimp. if you go there's a restaurant called mcelroy's in the harbor. its hard to beat.
sept thru febuaryQuote:
Originally Posted by Red190
Be sure to eat at the Harbor Grill if you stay for a few days.
25 years ago we were in New Orleans for clinic for my son. We stayed off of Bourbon st for the nights. One club had All you can eat shrimp dinner for $6 per person. A cart was brought to the table with a bucket of ice and pitchers of our drinks. Another cart was brought to the table with large bowls of slaw, baked beans, wedged lemons, Old Bay seasoning and cocktail sauce. Then a large pan was brought out with the shrimp. In with the shrimp were heads, shells, rocks, wood and seaweed. The shrimp were all different sizes.
We checked at a marina to bring some home. What we were served was first off the boat without culling, $2.10 per pound. Large/jumbo headless were $3.75 per pound.
Buy em off the boat for between $2 and $3 regularly... Good sized ones too!
That's about the price I was thinking CliffordN. Where do I need to go to find this boat?
No oysters for me, not in June.
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my family does inshore shellfish up north on Cape Cod where fresh quahogs, mussels , oysters and pissah clams are fresh daily,, Not to forget our beloved lobsters,, My Uncle sells them out of his clamshack on canal there this time of year,,,, can't wait to go visit maybe later this summer,,,yummm
https://www.facebook.com/BarlowsClam...620536/?type=3
I never eat raw oysters during the warmer months. Like someone else said its better practice to eat them during the months with an "r". As far as the shrimp, crabs, and fish go, I usually go to one of the local seafood markets.
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R months? I thought that was for hurricanes.
The boats I am talking about are in south LA... I find them when I am fishing for specks and reds...
Several years ago after father-in laws Mississippi family reunion we bought 3 coolers fresh shrimp off the boat in Biloxi.
My family in our vehicle and in-laws and kids in their truck pulling a trailer headed home to Missouri.Close to St.Louis my brother-in-law was driving when 2 vehicles drag racing flew by each side of truck and trailer on the highway causing the rig to start swaying left and right until he lost control and the trailer flipped on it's side.
The trailer was destroyed along with the 3 coolers of shrimp.......Insurance company wanted to pay Biloxi prices and the father-in law wanted Mo. prices.Don't know how that came out.....What a waste of good shrimp...
If you were a team player you'd go ahead and pick up enough for all of us and cut the middle guy out. Just saying. I'm in for 10 lbs of shrimp. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Will_P
I dunno about the shrimp and oysters, but I haven't paid for a sack of crawfish in years. If I start on a Thursday afternoon, by Friday evening at the latest, I can usually have a haul of red swamps and white rivers like this, easily 80 to 100 lbs (although this picture is a 200 + lb haul that I caught for a big party we were having)- for the price of gas to go run the traps!Attachment 267508
OK, this place is in Tickfaw which is gonna save you a lot of driving, and the prices are not that bad... They catch em and haul em in to their own place... C and R Seafood... https://www.facebook.com/louisiana.shrimp/
For placing orders CALL (985)662-8707
10/15's $3.25/LB
16/20's $2.85/LB
21/25's $2.50/LB
26/30's $2.35/LB
31/35's $2.15/LB
36/40's $1.90/LB
40/50's $1.75/LB
Right off I-55, exit LA 36.
Their facebook page shows they will be closed for a few days waiting this storm out.
My contact reply was, we are finishing up with December, 2016 orders now.