Prince of Wales Island: Shrimping for giant Spot Prawns in Southeast Alaska!!!

[@toddbright72]

I really look forward to your videos. Thanks for taking the time!

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

Thanks Todd. I’m going to try and put out more this year of other stuff and not just deer hunting.

[@wbstone4388]

Nice spot prawn catch! I usually get about half that many near Petersburg. We like to eat them even more than King Salmon or halibut. I’ll try your suggestion about freezing in a block of water instead of vacuum packing. Thanks

[@skittles23891]

more of these. just found the channel. love your videos

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

Thank you !

[@TroyOttosen-jg7tt]

Just another day here in southeast Alaska! We are so spoiled! I gave up trying to tell folks unfamiliar with AK, how it is up here.😉👍

[@Follower_of_The_Word]

I enjoyed this, missing POW badly! If you’re daisy-chaining 2 pots on one string, the pot connected to the buoy will usually under fish the other pot because the buoy tugging on the pot spooks them. Add a shock cord on your lead line. Simply gat a 10’ rubber cord and fasten the ends to the lead line, so that when unstretched, there is slack in the lead line.

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

Thanks !!!! That’s a good idea, I wondered why that pot always did worse .

[@Follower_of_The_Word]

@@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter braid it into your lines, don’t use knots

[@Northwoods208]

Some banger shrimping spots by lyme point if youre ever on the south end. Those smaller halibut are perfect eaters, the big ones suck to fillet and they aren't near as good IMO

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

Thanks ! And I agree about the halibut. I’d much rather catch some smaller ones than something over 100lbs. I prefer up to 75 lbs really.

[@Northwoods208]

@@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter i agree completely, 50-75 pounds is perfect, they fillet easy and they're tasty. Those 200 pounders are a lot of work and they taste like an old growth stump

[@mountainlifewithdavidkelsie]

Got a new sub here from north central WA State love the channel bud

[@justinschmidt4692]

Great video. I am going to POW this August to hunt Blacktail for the first time. Any chance I could send you a few questions I am having? I know no one who has hunted POW. Thanks and I do enjoy the videos

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

Awesome Justin,
You can email me at [e-mail]

[@TroyOttosen-jg7tt]

Justin, bring extra shorts and I hope your in hood physical shape! August the Sitka are mainly up high and the way up here in Alaska isn’t like where your at! Just saying.😉👍

[@larrywarren2130]

Excellent....most excellent.

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

About time to go get more !

[@sin46ned]

We used to freeze fish and shrimp in milk cartons.

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

Yep that works great . The milk cartons are hard to come by around here though.

[@cpopuddlepirate6412]

What features on the sea floor are you targeting when looking for shrimp?

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

I look for flat areas, valley type places between two rocky inclines at about 350-400 ft

[@randlecarr3257]

Pretty damn cool octopus

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

I thought so too!

[@mountainlifewithdavidkelsie]

Man how did that giant octopus fit in that trap!? Insane

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

They’re amazing aren’t they ! The can squeeze into some tight spots

[@shaneseaford4824]

Nice

[@jeromyjohnson2469]

How deep were you dropping them?

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

350-375 ft

[@mikeknape7064]

where you live on POW?

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

Thorne Bay

[@shaneseaford4824]

Thats awesome u ever try the snails

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

No I haven’t

[@shaneseaford4824]

Ive hurd they are hood

[@shaneseaford4824]

Good

[@Sitka_Blacktail_Hunter]

@@shaneseaford4824 yea I think I’ll pass 🤣