View Full Version : Any Crabbing in the Potomac?
joe117
06-04-2009, 07:59 AM
Anyone doing any crabbing in the Potomac or the smaller rivers.
I see crab pots around Cob Island but I can't catch any up in the St Mary's Wicomico.
makoman
06-04-2009, 09:25 AM
You might post this question in the Crabbing Section of Tidalfish for more answers.
-makoman
ted butler
06-04-2009, 09:36 AM
I had some really good luck in the upper part of lower mochodoc creek, the best in the past three years.
Mike-JacksonCreek
06-04-2009, 09:53 AM
I'm a crabber with 120 pots out now in two of the Potomac Creeks below Ragged Pt, have been doing 2-4 bushels each time for the past month, expect that to increase any day now.
joe117
06-04-2009, 10:32 AM
I just came in from fishing this morning on the pier in front of the house. Watched a trot line crabber run his lines for three hours and I never saw him catch a single crab.
He pulled up and left.
I caught spot, white perch and croaker, all too small, 6" to 7", I was using squid. Lots of bites but everything was small.
I live three miles upstream from Bushwood.
mickey nelson
06-04-2009, 11:30 AM
i caught crabs in the wicomico for the last three weekends troutling, At least a half bushel each time in a couple hours each time
Rod Bender II
06-05-2009, 07:23 AM
About 2-1/2 weeks ago I tried crabbing in the Wicomico and it wasn't all that great but it has to start picking up I know soon. Joe117 where do you live? Sounds like you only live a couple minutes away from me, I'm on mechanicsville road....I put in at bushwood all the time.
joe117
06-05-2009, 08:19 AM
i caught crabs in the wicomico for the last three weekends troutling, At least a half bushel each time in a couple hours each time
Are you talking the St Mary's Wicomico?
Where on the river did you crab?
joe117
06-05-2009, 08:21 AM
About 2-1/2 weeks ago I tried crabbing in the Wicomico and it wasn't all that great but it has to start picking up I know soon. Joe117 where do you live? Sounds like you only live a couple minutes away from me, I'm on mechanicsville road....I put in at bushwood all the time.
I'm a couple of hundred yards down stream from the ramp at Old Chaptico Wharf.
Thoroughbred
06-05-2009, 10:35 AM
I'm a crabber with 120 pots out now in two of the Potomac Creeks below Ragged Pt, have been doing 2-4 bushels each time for the past month, expect that to increase any day now.
Mike do you shed softies?