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Originally Posted by Sol Invictus
Hi equalitor.
reason for a medium sized opening is that small fish need to escape, grow and reproduce so we can have catches year after year.
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Thats not entirely true.
Big fish lay more eggs and produce more offspring.
It is wise to take what you need, not more. Take fishy from different size, different year of birth. In this case the stock will renew itself in a good way. Sometimes small fishies like to put their sperm on the eggs of BIG woman. The can do so because they are small and dont pose a threat to them big males. Who told you fish weren't smart?
Its pretty difficult to explain it but if you take only the big ones the rest of the population will start to reproduce earlier and the offspring will be smaller. If you do so for many years the stock will eventually collapse. Some peoples call it survival-evolution.
If you want to catch shrimp a simple way to do it goes as follows. Take a good handful of small branches and tie, in the middle, them together with a piece of rope. Not to fast, not to loose. Put a small stone in it so it will sink to the bottom. As bait you can put in some meat or worms. Shrimp like these places to hide in and eat. Throw it in the water and check it every day, renew the bait and try different ones. You never now what the shrimpies like. If you pull it out dont be to slow, shrimps are VERY fast, dont do it to fast, shrimps belong in the water not in the trees.
Another way to do it is with a strong plastic bottle. Saw of the bottleneck a glue it upside down back in the bottle. Then saw off the bottom and make it that way you open en close it at will. Punch (or heat up a nail) holes in the bottle so the fresh water can circulate. Put some rope and bait on/it and throw it in the water and wait. If you have enough bottles you can make a string. You would be suprised of the amount of shrimps you can catch this way. Make sure the opening of the bottles is big enough for the species you want to catch. Even fishy will swim in to it if the opening is wide enough.
Good fishing to you all.
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