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Nice. Looks like you've got less wind than we do. Its blowing right good here. Good luck.

It's picking up. So far nothing wants to bite aside from HUGE sooks. Oh well.

Good luck and enjoy

You in the hybrid?

Westie25 wrote:You in the hybrid?

Yep. Got too windy. Came in to head down to the local pond instead. A bit of a challenge leaving- the ramp is right behind that Dodge, where a guy decided to park and go crabbing with his family. Asked him if he could park parallel with the bulkhead so people could get to the ramp easier. "It's a parking lot everywhere" he says "I don't see any lines". Stuff like this is why I'm wound so tight. I hate the effing Baltimoron tourists.

assateague wrote:

Westie25 wrote:You in the hybrid?

Yep. Got too windy. Came in to head down to the local pond instead. A bit of a challenge leaving- the ramp is right behind that Dodge, where a guy decided to park and go crabbing with his family. Asked him if he could park parallel with the bulkhead so people could get to the ramp easier. "It's a parking lot everywhere" he says "I don't see any lines". Stuff like this is why I'm wound so tight. I hate the effing Baltimoron tourists.

push his truck into the water. That'll learn em!

Don't think you can see, but a game warden just pulled into the parking lot here. It's all of 40 yards away. He's hiding behind the brushy tree, watching me. I suppose he thinks he's sneaky, since I have my ear buds in, but it's actually comical.

Watching you fish?!? Holler at him and tell him to burn the road up.

I guess he decided I wasn't going to do anything wrong. He finally stepped out and "hey'd" me. To his credit, he didn't ask me to come in, just to hold up my life jacket and fishing license. As of he could read it.

Speaking of burning the road up, this one passed me on the way down to the bay. It's one of the radar-running sedans I was talking about. Sorry for the crappy pic.

Nothing irritates me more.

assateague wrote:I guess he decided I wasn't going to do anything wrong. He finally stepped out and "hey'd" me. To his credit, he didn't ask me to come in, just to hold up my life jacket and fishing license. As of he could read it.

Speaking of burning the road up, this one passed me on the way down to the bay. It's one of the radar-running sedans I was talking about. Sorry for the crappy pic.

He was probably looking for the guy who was taking pictures on his phone while driving.

Discovery for today: catfish love shrimp. Had leftover bait, so decided to use it on the catfish. Now if I could just get some worth keeping

assateague wrote:Discovery for today: catfish love shrimp. Had leftover bait, so decided to use it on the catfish. Now if I could just get some worth keeping

Shrimp is my favorite bait for cats, I like to drift with barely enough weight to make it scrape bottom.

Sounds like you had a fun day Assa. That's what sundays are for!

jarbo03 wrote:

assateague wrote:Discovery for today: catfish love shrimp. Had leftover bait, so decided to use it on the catfish. Now if I could just get some worth keeping

Shrimp is my favorite bait for cats, I like to drift with barely enough weight to make it scrape bottom.

I would rather eat shrimp over any fish. To me, thats like getting a hot chick to be your wing man at the bar so you can pick up a 6 for the night.

3legged_lab wrote:

jarbo03 wrote:

assateague wrote:Discovery for today: catfish love shrimp. Had leftover bait, so decided to use it on the catfish. Now if I could just get some worth keeping

Shrimp is my favorite bait for cats, I like to drift with barely enough weight to make it scrape bottom.

I would rather eat shrimp over any fish. To me, thats like getting a hot chick to be your wing man at the bar so you can pick up a 6 for the night.

assateague wrote:I guess he decided I wasn't going to do anything wrong. He finally stepped out and "hey'd" me. To his credit, he didn't ask me to come in, just to hold up my life jacket and fishing license. As of he could read it.

Speaking of burning the road up, this one passed me on the way down to the bay. It's one of the radar-running sedans I was talking about. Sorry for the crappy pic.

glad to see i'll always have a job

Ended up with a catfish and two small crappie. Caught fish all afternoon, just nothing big wanted to move, only junior.

First chance I got to use 3 Leg's knife- I'm very impressed. It went through catfish skin like butter, and then the two crappie. Still feels new. I was a little sceptical of the flex, since the blades thicker than a "regular" fillet knife, but it bent right under the meat above the skin like a champ. I'm sold.

assateague wrote:Ended up with a catfish and two small crappie. Caught fish all afternoon, just nothing big wanted to move, only junior.

First chance I got to use 3 Leg's knife- I'm very impressed. It went through catfish skin like butter, and then the two crappie. Still feels new. I was a little sceptical of the flex, since the blades thicker than a "regular" fillet knife, but it bent right under the meat above the skin like a champ. I'm sold.

Glad you finally got a chance to use it, and like it. Wait til you're butchering up your next deer.

3legged_lab wrote:I would rather eat shrimp over any fish.

i had fresh shrimp for lunch. came off the boat last night. fried them for lunch and steamed some for dinner

Bufflehead wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:I would rather eat shrimp over any fish.

i had fresh shrimp for lunch. came off the boat last night. fried them for lunch and steamed some for dinner

I absolutely love shrimp. I'm going to the coast in a few weeks and plan on eating shrimp at least once per day while I'm there.

assateague wrote:Don't think you can see, but a game warden just pulled into the parking lot here. It's all of 40 yards away. He's hiding behind the brushy tree, watching me. I suppose he thinks he's sneaky, since I have my ear buds in, but it's actually comical.

Shoulda sent Mr. Greenjeans over to the other ramp to tell the Dodgeboy not to park in front of it. What a dik. I would've told his kids not to grow up and be disrespectful like their dad.

assateague wrote:It's picking up. So far nothing wants to bite aside from HUGE sooks. Oh well.

Snook are great to catch. They fight like hell.

Sooks. Female blue crabs. Males are Jimmys. Can't keep the females, which is too bad because I reeled in almost a dozen, and these bitches would clamp on and I could've swung them in the boat easily before they let go. Tells me there's too many crabs this year.

AT, you know you are going to have to move west some day, right?

assateague wrote:Sooks. Female blue crabs. Males are Jimmys. Can't keep the females, which is too bad because I reeled in almost a dozen, and these bitches would clamp on and I could've swung them in the boat easily before they let go. Tells me there's too many crabs this year.

VA and MD reported record crab numbers this year. The jimmy pop's are down and the sook numbers are way up.

Tomkat wrote:AT, you know you are going to have to move west some day, right?

Yes. I prefer CO, but it's getting a little too liberal for me. Northern AZ is very nice, though.

Baysider wrote:

assateague wrote:Sooks. Female blue crabs. Males are Jimmys. Can't keep the females, which is too bad because I reeled in almost a dozen, and these bitches would clamp on and I could've swung them in the boat easily before they let go. Tells me there's too many crabs this year.

VA and MD reported record crab numbers this year. The jimmy pop's are down and the sook numbers are way up.

I believe it. There are a stupid number of crabs everywhere, even to the point of having to kick them out of your way while clamming. I don't recall ever seeing this many crabs. But of course DNR is claiming that they need to impose a strict quota system.

Its never natures cycle you know....its always a result of tighter laws and regulation so they can pat each other on the back.

My observations...rockfish numbers go up and crab goes down and vise versa. Same goes for gray trout and rockfish. We had a poor year with rock the past two years. Well, poor in comparison to many. This year the crabs and gray trout are every where.