well tommorow daddy and I will pull his crab pots out of the water…and I am sad…crabs are still there but the price is and has been so low it’s not worth working for … $25 for a bushel of ones…which have to be 5 and 3/4 inch or more and even less for #2s…which are really number ones …and not buying females at all…with the cost of bait and gas…it’s best to pull the pots…
…so tommorow we will pull his pots for the last time this season…and put them on"the hill"… As daddy says…
Oyster season is upon us…but crabbing withmy daddy always holds a special place in my heart[8)
And just to make this a fishng report… >>>>))))))))))))* >.
Know you got to be sad about no more crabbing with your Daddy this season. He’s a true one of a kind for sure and he is blessed beyond imagination to have a daughter like you helping him like you do. But that’s just what you do!
Russ B. www.joinrfa.org
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Hate to hear about the end of the crabbin’ for this season but also know that other adventures (and pics) will soon be posted. He is a lucky father and you are a lucky daughter!!
Thanks…and I’ll be sure to take a few pics…hoping to catch a fish and shrimp or two also…lunch is packed and car is loaded…and this girl is ready to go…come’on. 0430!!! Woot woot!!!
Penny good on you for helping Mr. Penny’s Daddy, Sir! If you are feeling better now and you want something to do, on your days off, how do you feel about grass mowing?
Hahaa…you are so far behind me …I’ve aLReady cut the grass…cleaned the pool x3…cleaned the garage…trimmed the shrubs…and cleaned all the stainless on the big boat…And worked my. Forty hours last week…
But not to worry…daddy will be keeping a close and stern eye on me tommorow I’m sure…he’s already given me “the talk”. Time to get out my best…“awww daddy” smile
Penny, Just got back from a trip to Pa to see my parents, while we were there we purchased a bushel of crabs, $200 a bushel and they weren’t #1’s. There is a huge demand in the Cheas bay Area for your dad’s harvest if you can find a way to get them their without the middel man taking your hard earned income.All of the bars and restaurants in the area serve crabs on the weekends.
Food for thought.
Jeff
Interesting that yall are pulling in your pots now. I’ve got a good friend who is a commercial crabber in the Hilton Head area and they just got started last week. He set 350 pots on the ocean side of Hilton Head and Daufuskie. He’s got his own refrigerated truck and hauls the crabs to the Chesapeake area to market. $200 a bushel pays for a truck pretty fast:sunglasses:
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
Marine Surveying & Repair
Yea, I grew up in MD and still have a couple of brothers living up there. I just laugh when they tell me what they’re paying (or would have to pay) for crabs up there. Then they cry when I tell them $15 - $20 dozen here!
I just moved from MD, lived on the Chesapeake and had good friends that are watermen… can’t get crabs from them for less than 150 per bushel.
Marketing - plenty of people in this area that love seafood. Need a way to market MD style crabs, great crabcakes and crab soup. The prices would go up.
And as said above, bay crabbers can’t keep up with the demand, nor can the oystermen. Most crab and oyster fests on the bay/in the area don’t serve local products.
We’ll miss your crabbing photos but look forward to some of your oystering escapades. I wonder what that poor dolphin does when your Daddy doesn’t go out crabbing?
Interesting that yall are pulling in your pots now. I’ve got a good friend who is a commercial crabber in the Hilton Head area and they just got started last week. He set 350 pots on the ocean side of Hilton Head and Daufuskie. He’s got his own refrigerated truck and hauls the crabs to the Chesapeake area to market. $200 a bushel pays for a truck pretty fast:sunglasses:
Capt. Larry Teuton
Key words in your paragraph…large amount of pots he works…wherehe is…and ships or haul s them himself. It makes a heck of a difference. Our oldest son lives n Maryland and tells us …and papa that he pays 150 plus fr a bushel…and he too can’t believe what the crabbers get here. Daddy works around 69 pots…usual haul in the village for him Is (lately). A bushel or two of the xlarge #1s. And four bushels of twos…bait is. Aout 25-27 basket…x2 n that…and gas…then there’s replacing old , lost or stolen…equipment…he loves being out there…an do truelly believe it keeps him going…
Down loading pics from today…will post shortly
Believe me…if it were profitable he wouldn’t have pulled his pots…but he has been plugging away . And the price keeps dropping…the trucks that pick up from them are from up north…and Dave gets them as good of a price as he can…but it is what it is…so now he will plant and prepare his oyster lease for oyster season
Penny, how do you plant a oyster lease? Are you meaning, dumping old oyster shells on the existing rakes?
Easy…Daddy has a oyster lease that he has permitted ,managed, worked and harvested from for years. When you are able to get a lease you have to “maintain” it…so every year he is required to put down a certain amount of wood stakes in the mud for oysters to attach to and grow on…Im talking about hundreds of stakes…they also “rake down” their leases…as well as some of the state leases if asked to.
quote: A bushel or two of the xlarge #1s. And four bushels of twos....bait is. Aout 25-27 basket...x2 n that.....and gas.....then there's replacing old , lost or stolen..equipment........he loves being out there...an do truelly believe it keeps him going...
Yep, you’ve got to love it or you couldn’t keep going. Its one of the hardest ways in the world to make a living. I know, I’ve done it. Crabs, shrimp, oysters, clams, fish and charter boats. Grinding fiberglass in the heat is easier work than commercial fishing of any kind. But not as rewarding to the soul. I understand. You can’t get any closer to the creator than working the water.
That’s the way this man is too. He fishes scallops way up yonder in Delaware or Maryland in the spring and summers, staying out 30 days at a time, and crabs here in the fall/winter. He doesn’t set his pots in the river though, they are all out in the ocean, and he’ll fish them every day until about January. No matter the weather, all 350 traps get pulled every 2 days. He ain’t no youngun either. Got to love it:sunglasses:
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
Marine Surveying & Repair
I’m also from Maryland. $150-200 a bushel is for Maryland crabs. Carolina and Louisiana crabs are cheaper. Not that they are always marked correctly. To be honest, I like the crabs here better. They are saltier and our waters are much cleaner. Back home, I could be shot for saying that.
well tommorow daddy and I will pull his crab pots out of the water…and I am sad…crabs are still there but the price is and has been so low it’s not worth working for … $25 for a bushel of ones…which have to be 5 and 3/4 inch or more and even less for #2s…which are really number ones …and not buying females at all…with the cost of bait and gas…it’s best to pull the pots…
