Crabbing and shrimping has been GOOD!

[tear-em-up]

We catch crabs with trotlines up this way ( Chesapeake bay and tributaries ) you ride down the line as it comes up a roller off the side of the boat and dip em as they come up , alot of fun, my is 1200ft. Wondering if anybody does it down that way? Wish we had shrimp up here we just have little grass shrimp that we use for bait , we do have speckle trout up here but not like you guys.

[shadow]

We catch crabs with trotlines up this way ( Chesapeake bay and tributaries ) you ride down the line as it comes up a roller off the side of the boat and dip em as they come up , alot of fun, my is 1200ft. Wondering if anybody does it down that way? Wish we had shrimp up here we just have little grass shrimp that we use for bait , we do have speckle trout up here but not like you guys.

I have heard of guys using trout lines for crabs but have never done it that way myself. If you think about it get some pics next time you all go out and catch like that. That would be cool to see.

[tear-em-up]

The trotlinings over now but we caught em good right into the 1st weekend in Nov. waters to cool for em to hang on now there still catching em in pots in deep water. Last time out we had 2 bushels in 2 hrs. and in Maryland we're only able to keep the males. Up here the males are called Jimmies and the females are called sooks.

[FBM357]

The trotlinings over now but we caught em good right into the 1st weekend in Nov. waters to cool for em to hang on now there still catching em in pots in deep water. Last time out we had 2 bushels in 2 hrs. and in Maryland we're only able to keep the males. Up here the males are called Jimmies and the females are called sooks.

tear-em-up, you fish for spots and croakers? Noticed you mentioned 'speckled trout' aka weakfish. In the late 70's-early 80's ... they were in abundance here in NY. My Dad and I fished for them on the North Shore of the Long Island Sound. Back then, they were known for snatching rods out of boats (people weren't mindful enough :p). Kinda like having a bluefish grab your bait ...:p

[tear-em-up]

The speckle trout are different then weakfish , I'm talking about the trout like they catch down south on shrimp. We have both kinds of trout here we call the weaks yellowfin trout and the speckle trout we call specks. We catch the specks in real shallow water in the cheapeake bay we use lures or soft crabs for them. The weakfish are real scarce right now. The specks meat is alot firmer then the weaks. We do have alot of spot and croaker too. We caught lots of stripers ( we call em rockfish) while speck fishing this year.

[PawPaw Gene]

tear-em-up, the old time commercial fishermen used to fish for them like that before crabs traps (pots) were invented. They had a big spool on the back of their small boats to hold the line. They would drop the line anchor and travel across the lake putting out the line, then return to the beginning and run the line like you're talking about. I haven't seen one like that in 50 years. Thanks for the memories.
"gene"