Can Pinching A Shrimp’s Tail Boost Your Fishing Success?
- By: Tony Acevedo
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Ever heard that pinching the tail off a shrimp kills it?
I’m diving deep into this common fishing belief to uncover the truth!
And the results may surprise you! Plus, you’ll learn why this technique might actually improve your chances of landing certain fish.
Can Pinching A Shrimp’s Tail Boost Your Fishing Success?
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Good to know, I’m def going to start doing this more
Works great!
I just bite off the tail before I hook it .
Haha that works as well!
I prefer my shrimp tails fried. Raw is second best though.
I’m surprised you wrote this report because I vividly remember you doing several reports while using live shrimp and you mentioned you pinching the fin of the tail off because it draws in fish especially redfish and black drum that mostly use there keen sence of smell to hunt for there pray which is one reason unlike other inshore sought after species that prefer cleaner saltier water reds especially feed with no hindering in dirty or murky water conditions anyways just saying when you said you were going to find out if pinching the fin of the shrimps tail off would kill the shrimp it sounded like you dodnot know where as I thought you did in the previous reports you did on using shrimp with there tail fins pinched off like I said just saying
This is more a video showing that it doesn’t kill the shrimp. I can say it doesn’t kill the shrimp, but everyone always wants proof.
Scent is transferred by the current and the direction of that current. … Sound radiates from a sub-surface TEXAS RATTLER jig in ALL directions at the rate of 5400 meters/second while the vibrations of a lures tail on a silent jig travels at 1400 meters/second… BIG difference, with a rattling TEXAS RATTLER™ jig you call in fish from a further distance where the larger game fish are lurking, so you will not only catch more fish, but bigger fish.
Yep sound definitely travels differently than scent.
If pinching the tail produces more scent which presumably attracts more predator fish, do you think adding some DJ scent to a live shrimp would also help? I don’t know if the hard shell might lessen the effectiveness but possibly adding something like fish gum to the hook to absorb DJ – – just a thought!
I find experimenting with different fishing methods is a part of the fishing experience.
You should try out your own ideas and tell others your findings. Spread the word of your success and failures.
BTW, adding more than one choice of bait to a hook for a few species of fish can improve the chance of success for a number of reasons.
Sure! I should have reported years ago that removing a shrimp’s tail will not kill it. Didn’t really think a video was needed when a person can see that in a live well. After nearly 10 years of SS content creation, it’s hard to find something that hasn’t already been covered, and usually multiple times. I’ll tell ya another finding, you can cut parts of a baitfish’s tail to make it swim differently and it doesn’t kill it (bonus insight). While the video was only proving a single point about shrimp’s tail being off or on, I saw no proof that a tailless shrimp puts out more scent. And even if you accept it as truth, does more scent mean more caught fish? Sounds like a way to sell more Dr. Juice by slathering on the lure before each and every cast. And I’ve never heard anglers claim that cutting a baitfish’s tail produces more scent. So there you have it A. Rollins. Spreading the word as you suggested
Couldn’t hurt to try!
Everything in the water eats shrimp doa.
For sure!