the shrimp are running right now in the st.john'sriver at palatka,fl. you can join 100 plus people and throw from the city dock if you don't have a boat.if you do you can launch there too.the limit is a 5 gal bucket per person heads on from land and one 5 gal bucket per boat heads on( must land them whole). most people are catching about 5 gal (500 plus)shrimp for 4 hours throwing. a 6 ft cast net is best as it is possible to make more throws per hour than a bigger net. must be a shrimp net. shrimp come to rock salt and /or feed .Some people put duck tape around bottom of the net to make it spread better.light does help attract shrimp. good luck
I went out on the St. Johns just north of the Shands bridge last Wednesday night from 8-12 and filled a 5 gallon bucket. We couldn't get our hands on any shrimp meal so we used wet dog food, mixed it with flour and packed it into bait balls. Throw them out and wait 15 minutes and start throwing the net. They run here every late summer. Have been here for a month, don't know how long they will stay, the longer they do, the bigger they are. Last couple years there hasn't been many shrimp in the runs, this is the best I've seen in the last 3 years.
we have a commercial fisherman that always drops by mullet, shrimp and whatever else he gets in to, and he heads up there to the St johns every year or so and usually brings back several gallons for us. your report co-incides with his last two years of not many shrimp making it to the shop. the shrimp from up that way are nice and sweet.
