Crabbing in Bad luck

[normmag]

Hi I went crabbing Friday in my boat ,with Brian .Great weather & things started out great went over the traps & got 9 big jumbos.The second time over we got 7 big ones half way through. Then the motor just quit running & hasen't ran since.We were lucky to have my trolling motor on the back,That's what I thought since it only ran for 3 min & stoped. Boy what a day.Crabs were biting but no way to catch they . I bet they enjoyed the next 3 hours eating our bait down to the bone & no one bothering them.We were lucky to know another crabber that lives in the area . He was out crabbing too. He came to our rescue. Thank goodness.The whole day turned out to be a bust. I guess I have to look at it this way,once the motor gets repaired & I get back out there those big old crabs will be a little bit fatter after eating most of our bait
Red boat & Normmag are crabbing in bad luck so far this year . His boat leaked bad first time out even though we caught crabs . now this time the motor on my boat quit. I sure hope the next time out we will have better luck

[miracleson82]

sorry about your bad luck! At least you have the whole season to recover.where did you crab? What depth did you have your traps?
Better luck next trip.
Frank

[normmag]

We crabed the Pax river & had our traps in 15-18 feet of water nothing shallow. We used chicken necks. I hope to have things fixed up by the end of next week

[hdgron]

[smile][smile]Talking about that bad luck; I heard that Brian is just his nickname; his real name is "Jonah". [smile][smile]