Why I love opening day of crab....and the ongoing season!

[DoubleJ]

It's going to have to get a hell of a lot warmer and sunnier by noon before I go jumping into the bay

[h20hunter]

C'mon............all that talk..............SISSY!!!


(be carefull)

[D-Rock425]

 

[DoubleJ]

At the dock now.  Pics later.  Short story, my wife used her birthday gift card for walmart from my parents to buy me a crab pot and a small inflatable raft.  Worked pretty good to get the pot out 150' and get me back to the dock

[h20hunter]

Nice.......look forward to the recap.

[DoubleJ]

Here's the boat



A few clips of me going 150' off the dock to drop the pot





And while the pot was soaking, a little fun with the kids



High tide was at 12:45 and we didn't even get to the dock until 1:45.  Pot didn't get dropped until after 2pm so we were chasing the tail end of high tide and didn't get any keepers.  Tomorrow though, I can hit it a few hours ahead of high tide and pull it a few hours after and see what's in there.  Looks promising.  The boat worked better than I thought it would and was way easy to swim the pot out to the end of the rope and swim back to the dock.  A little current push but not enough to throw me off coarse.

[h20hunter]

Cool. Acutually looks like a good time. How doe the retrieval work? Just pull like a madman or swim out and pull 'er straight up?

[DoubleJ]

pull like a mad man from the dock.  Once I get it moving off of the bottom, it's not too bad coming up.  I'd drop it with a buoy and pull straight up but I don't want a crab to pop the boat while I'm in it and I doubt I'd be able to fill out a card in those cramped confines. 

[DoubleJ]

I should get my YAR name changed from nutcracker since I can't have my nut punch avatar to "YAR Hardcore Crabber"  I work way too hard for these crabs

[Fishstiq]

So I went crabbing yesterday... all by myself... alone... with 2 empty seats...

I did well, limited out.  While I was out, there were a couple guys who had been out since 9-10am and had caught 2 crab in 5 hours.  I felt bad for them, so while I was picking up my crab I stuffed a few nice ones in their pot.  They seemed pretty happy when they pulled it up!

My catch....



and I found these....



The bad news is that while pulling the boat out, I slipped on the launch, and like an idiot I tried to catch myself on the side of the truck.  Twisted my back something fierce, I am in p-a-i-n today!  I'm walking around like I'm wearing ski boots and have a load in my pants, it's horrible.  No more crabbing for me until my back gets beter, I hope it's just sore and not actually damaged somehow.

[h20hunter]

Nice catch.....one of these days I'm gonna find Skillets pots and pilfer them. I'll be nice about it and leave a few beers in there for him.

[DoubleJ]

So I went crabbing yesterday... all by myself... alone... with 2 empty seats...

I did well, limited out.  While I was out, there were a couple guys who had been out since 9-10am and had caught 2 crab in 5 hours.  I felt bad for them, so while I was picking up my crab I stuffed a few nice ones in their pot.  They seemed pretty happy when they pulled it up!

My catch....



and I found these....



The bad news is that while pulling the boat out, I slipped on the launch, and like an idiot I tried to catch myself on the side of the truck.  Twisted my back something fierce, I am in p-a-i-n today!  I'm walking around like I'm wearing ski boots and have a load in my pants, it's horrible.  No more crabbing for me until my back gets beter, I hope it's just sore and not actually damaged somehow.

I also hope you're better soon.  It's always stupid crap like that the does all the damage.  My wifes 3 herniated disks in her back were done while she was doing a movement she had done a thousand times.  Just happened that this one time, her back didn't want to do it.  Eat crab and swallow pain killers and get well soon.

[DoubleJ]

Today's tide yielded 3 red rocks.  Got the pot out 150' from the dock at about 1pm and let the tide get high at 2pm and pulled them in about 3pm.  Still no problems driving the boat with just my hands.  I think I'm going to try and add 100' of rope to the 150' I already have.  Anyone know where I can get an underwater topo map for Pickering Passage?  I thought Google maps would have it but it doesn't.  I want to see if another 100' will get me much deeper or if it wouldn't be worth it.

[h20hunter]

How deep are you now? Here is what I'm thinking................cheap wetsuit you find at a garage sale....weight belt..........pair of fins and a hand me down mask.......swim for them!

[DoubleJ]

How deep are you now? Here is what I'm thinking................cheap wetsuit you find at a garage sale....weight belt..........pair of fins and a hand me down mask.......swim for them!

I don't know how deep I'm at right now.  No way for me to tell.  No fish finder.  I can't imagine more than 30'