Crabbing

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
LEAVE DUG ALONE!!! :|

KT

Easy, they are not fishing for crabs in Australia.

 

[Gothgar]

I watched deadlist catch, does that count?

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
LEAVE DUG ALONE!!! :|

KT

Easy, they are not fishing for crabs in Australia.

Watch out, they are coming for you next...

KT

 

[schmedy]

Originally posted by: Common Courtesy
When living in Southern Md, I had 2 2ft cube pots that I would toss off a dock into the St Mary's or Potomac river during crab season.

At the beginning of the season, I went down to a local fishing marina and purchased a trash bag full of trash fish ($5). Rolled 3 fish up in newspaper and stuffed the freezer.

Every morning I would capture a pot and place a fish package in the bait tunnel and toss it back.
Total time ~10 minutes
If the pots were tied to a pier, they would be robbed/confiscated.
In evening I would capture the other pot; empty supper (15+ Blue crabs) into a bucket, toss females back and toss pot back into water.
Total time ~15 minutes

We never had beef during crab season.

I had a 25' thin clothesline with a mini grappling hook tied tod the end. To oss the line out wnhere tohe pot should be and drag until located.


I do not know anything about catching those overgrown crawfish that they call "lobsters" in the south

This is how I did it when I grew up in NJ, but you need to make sure about a license for a pot, and where you put it also. Typically for traps or line you just have to worry about size. I would rather check my pots once a day and spend the rest of the time fishing.

 

[rasczak]

didn't crab fish, but my wife and i spent roughly a year up in the bering sea trawling for pollock and cod. quite an experience, but one my wife and i will never do again.

 

[zoiks]

What kind of crabs? I make my own traps for dungeness crabs.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

you can catch crabs from public restrooms not necessarily the tranny hooker.