First trip of the year

[tomytek]

I finally got out for my first crabbing trip of the year. My logs showed that I did pretty decent around this time last year. I crabbed a river of the Western shore of the Chesapeake Bay this past Saturday. My friend Paul accompanied me. I had the lined deployed around 6:30 in 7'-9' of water. We managed 11 keepers on the first run. It was pretty steady the next few runs. As the sun got higher, it slowed down and we caught 2 keepers on one run. I decided to let my line soak a little longer and it paid off. We caught well over a dozen keepers on that run. I let my line soak longer the next few runs. We topped of my first bushel of the season by 11. It took a little longer than expected, but it is still early in the season. We packed up and called it a day. Most crabs were light with a few nice dark crabs. Below a is picture of my first bushel of the year.

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q26/tomytek/crabs6.jpg

[Willie]

Now that's what I am talking about............... What time is dinner...wow..nice job..........you are making me very hungry............thx for posting....come on you other crabbers, lets get going....

[mikeinva]

nice catch. what bait do you prefer?

[tomytek]

I use chicken necks because it's inexpensive. I buy 40lb boxes of them and get 4-5 trips out of a box. I use 1200' of snoodline. From what I have heard, this time of the year razor clams are best. They are a little expensive and much more work to bait.

In the same river, a friend of mine used razor clams and did not do that well. Another guy by me was using bull lips and did not do that well either. Necks did just fine for me.

[Dave]

Very nice.... beautiful basket of crabs *Cheers*

[RAAB]

nice work! on the Y?