Anyone been out there lately, if so how is the crabbin’. I know we have had some rain but I don’t think enough to wash the salt down the river. Thinkin’ of tryin it out this weekend. Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
maybe if you werent a gamecock i would help you haha
just picking. are u going to be crabbing with necks or throwing actual pots out?
Last weekend we caught a half dozen big males in one of the creeks near the landing using handlines and dead mudminnows. We probably would have done better if we had gotten some decent bait. We do well with fresh caught mullet, croakers and pinfish as opposed to chicken necks, but we were just using what we had. We also noticed that the number of crab pots has increased in the last two weeks. That usually means that they are in there or the crabbers would not waste their time. The folks on the pier haven’t had much luck as far as we could tell, with all the crabs we saw caught at the landing being very small.
Good Luck.
PioneerLouie
Pioneer Venture 175, Johnson 90
Summerville, SC
The crabs at the landing have got to be tired from the long walk from the water. I cannot imagine a lot of crabs are around the dock with as little water is there at low tides.
phinfreak09 - the pickin’ is fine with me, if you can’t take it you certainly can’t give it, so bring it on haha. Possibly a crab pot out when we first get there then the rest of the day would be drop hoop style nets with a chicken neck tied to the middle, maybe one tied to a line and pulled up very slowly and scooped with a net, who knows whatever is producing.
So from joseph69’s comments, it seems that low tide is a no-no, understandable.
PioneerLouie, I completly understand what you mean about bait. There isn’t an abundance of chicken in the water so a crab’s main natural diet is bait fish, so obviously wouldn’t that work the best. During shrimping season I keep alot of my bait fish that I catch in the castnet and freeze them. They make great crab bait for the traps.
I just hadn’t made it out to Bushy Park in a while and I’ll be working in that area Sat morning so I figured I’ll do a lil crabbin’ afterwards. Thanks for the info everyone.
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Joseph is right about low tide there. At low tide there is only about a foot of water at the dock…you can see the bottom all around the landing so I would try it at high tide if crabbing from the dock. The crabs are getting bigger now and it should be pretty good but probably not at low tide.
PioneerLouie
Pioneer Venture 175, Johnson 90
Summerville, SC
gamecock - i used to crab there a good amount last year from the docks and as everyone else said low tide sucks, however lines moved plenty for me at higher tides. i had pretty good luck with the hand lines and hoop nets, but also tossed a small trap under a pier or along the grass and caught plenty in it too. chicken/turkey necks and wings were ok, but go to a bait shop and get some frozen mullet or a seafood market and get a croaker they worked much better than chicken for me. i tossed back quite a few but there are bigger ones out there to be found. good luck!
the reason for all the small crabs at the landing is that a lot of the crabbers cull out the small ones at the landing before loading the boat on the trailer.
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