Hi all, In just a week, I am leaving to explore Kyuquot Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Together with my son, we are going to paddle our Libra XT double made by local company Current Designs. If anyone has visited that area before, I would love to hear about your impressions. Also, I am thinking about trying to catch a few shrimps for dinner while on the trip. What is left is to figure out how to accomplish that. According to my friend, it is possible to make a shrimp trap from a plastic bucket; however, I was not able to find out exactly how. If you happen to know how to catch a shrimp with some kind of portable trap, please share! Cheers, Victor *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Victor Okunev wrote: > Also, I am thinking about trying to catch a few shrimps for dinner while on the > trip. What is left is to figure out how to accomplish that. According to my > friend, it is possible to make a shrimp trap from a plastic bucket; however, I > was not able to find out exactly how. If you happen to know how to catch a > shrimp with some kind of portable trap, please share! Around here we use a throw net. Takes a while to get the motion down. -- Steve Cramer Athens, GA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
It's hard to tell how far your and your son could go, speaking of time available and skills (and, who knows, weather too). Check this link - http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/ --> Search by geographical location. Wherever is a park, it's a gurantee of landing and camping spot. Unlikely you'll be exploring these shore alone on a weekend, especially if campsite is particularly nice. Expect to share it with 1 or 2 kayaking groups. I have some doubts in shrimp dinner, unless you buy them in Safeway before leaving. But then you'll need a cooler, so I would rather opt for canned meat, dry frutis etc :-). Check tidal tables for this area - tides magnitude is ubnormal this year. I've heard some fog is expected in the next couple of days in Vancouver area. > In just a week, I am leaving to explore Kyuquot Sound on the West Coast of > Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Together with my son, we are > going to paddle our Libra XT double made by local company Current Designs. If > anyone has visited that area before, I would love to hear about your > impressions. > > Also, I am thinking about trying to catch a few shrimps for dinner while on the > trip. > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
[Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (including headers/footers/sig lines/extraneous text from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material in addition to removing header/trailers when replying to posts.] Thank you for all your responses! I'd like to summarize my findings on the subject of shrimping while kayaking on the Pacific North-West: 1. One the Pacific coast of Canada, the shrimps are not present. Instead, we have prawns, which are deeper water creatures (80-200 ft). 2. The recreational prawn harvesting is open all year round: http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pages/sfg/tables/shelltable_e.htm 3. Locals are actually catching the prawns all year round. 4. BC Tidal Waters Sport Fishing License is required for prawn harvesting. This is the same license as for the sport fishing. It is available for $22.47 and $108.07 for BC residents and non-residents respectively: http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pages/sfg/licences_e.htm 5. A local BC company makes folding stainless prawn traps that are 12"x12" when folded flat. They sell them via the distributors, not directly. The price is around CDN $50. E-mail me for the link for it is against the list policy to post it here. I am definitely going to give it a try. I'll post the results when I am back from my trip in September. Cheers, Victor. --- Victor Okunev <unrealokun_at_yahoo.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > In just a week, I am leaving to explore Kyuquot Sound on the West Coast of > Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Together with my son, we are > going to paddle our Libra XT double made by local company Current Designs. If > anyone has visited that area before, I would love to hear about your > impressions. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> 5. A local BC company makes folding stainless prawn traps that are 12"x12" when > folded flat. They sell them via the distributors, not directly. The price is > around CDN $50. E-mail me for the link for it is against the list policy to > post it here. It is not against the policy, as long as you make no profit on it and have no affiliation with manufacturer. On the other hand, it might contravene the policy, being addictive, speaking of both gourmet niceties and the very process of catching it. But then fishing is an addiction as well :-)... Not to mention such anti-social and eremitical activity, as kayaking ... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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