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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand
Any of you guys know how to knit netting?
My FIL showed me how years ago.

With a ball of string; a needle made out of a stick or even a modern plastic needle you can make a hammock; scoop net; shrimp trawl; or even a cargo net for your pickup bed because they all use the same principal to make.

The pictures are drop nets used to catch Atlantic blue crabs.
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Dad and I would build seine nets and He taught Me how to sow up tears and make repairs.
Ron
 
John, you're killing me! Man, those look good! They're still running about $7 a pound up here in Caddo, so I haven't had any yet. Went last week to New Iberia, Morgan City, and along the Atchafalaya levee. Saw very little to indicate there was much bug-gathering going on. Obviously they're finding some somewhere.
 
Sorry to get your hopes up Jerry.
The crawfish is a picture I stole off the web.

Crawfish are small; scarce; and very expensive this year. I usually eat a lot of them during lent (no red meat allowed) but have not had any so far this year.

They did have a clip on the news this evening saying while still small the wholesale price has dropped $0.50 to $0.75 a pound over the past few days.
Another few weeks of warm weather and it will be on.
Shrimp season should open in another month or so giving us more choices.
 
We are sitting out another year raising prawns (shrimp)as $7.00 is about my break even point. May be changing my handle to ex-prawn farmer.
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I don't mean to offend you Swamp dwellers, but those crawfish and prawns are about the nastiest stuff a human can eat.

My son lived in Mobile, AL for a few years. One of the times that we went to visit him, he took us all out for "Low County Boil". I finally had to go out and wait in the car for them to finish eating. We stopped at McDonald's on the way home for me to buy supper.

Nasty. Just plain nasty.

Tom in TN
 
Tom is right, NASTY. I suggest if you haven't tried em then don't.......Leaves More for Me.:)
Ron
 
Charlie I also use sheetbend knots.
I have a jig my FIL gave me that is a 1x4 on edge with dowel holes 1 1/2 inches apart. I use this rather than a piece of wood to keep the net holes spaced correctly.

If you look close you can see this is also a graduated net. Only has 14 points at the center but after you get up a couple of rows it graduates to 28 points. This helps the cone shape of the net lay better.
 
Prawn farmer where You from? When farming declined in our area several farms were converted shrimp farms until diseases and cheap imported shrimp put the out of business.
Ron
 
Tom I don't mean to offend you hill folks either but I can think of several things that people eat that smell bad enough you would think it could gag a maggot never alone trying to put it into your mouth.

I would say it is what you are raised on and acquired a taste for but there are several things my parents ate that I would never touch.
Hoghead cheese is one of them.
 
That is some nice work, John, not as easy as it might seem. I had noticed you had graduated the rows, to make a pocket, looks factory made! If you get a chance, it would be nice to see a picture of the jig your FIL made, maybe see it in action. Hope you catch a bushel of blue crabs with it!
 
We have some fair to middlin' ground in my part of Southern Illinois and average 40 bu beans and 120 bu corn in our hilly, clay soil during good, productive years. Nope, no aqua-culture help here from the state- just the opposite.
Across the river in Kentucky, the Commonwealth is helping former tobacco farmers with marketing and production with excellent advisers from Kentucky State University. They even have a mobile processing unit for fish farmers to rent at harvest.
North Carolina has very good marketing and Mississippi has absolutely outstanding educational and marketing help available for their aqua-culture industry.
The fees and taxes I paid to the state of illinois were used to send marketing people from U 0f I to Louisiana to help them establish and develop their marine shrimp market in illinois. Our state's direction just continually speaks for itself.
 
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