upper bay reports

[bayhead]

Friend caught over three dozen 7" and hard crabs yesterday at Sparrows point - on the bay shore - I saw them and can verify they were nice crabs.

Another friend caught almost 2 dozen in Back River this morning - not quite as nice but crabs are crabs this far north. Launched out of Rocky Point.

In both cases they worked for them - i.e crabbed a better part of the morning. Both friend used 30 foxy mate traps and fresh necks. Good news for local crabbers!

[Slipsinker]

Guess it's time to get ready for those Middle River crabs.[grin]

[seahack]

Thanks for the report. I hope to try some crabbing in about a week.

[fredjr]

excuse me for my ignorance but is sparrows point in the patapsaco? thanks for any info you can provide!!!

[baldpate]

Fredjr - Sparrows Point is on the north end of Baltimore Harbor - part of the Bethlehem Steel property - This place can and probably will be hot as a firecracker any time now[wink]

[fredjr]

thanks baldplate...man, they gotta be up the chester around eastneck any time now.

[Roger T]

I dont think I would eat any crab's out of there.You do know there is a consumtion advisery for the potapsco.
I fish the area and see turds the size of boats comming out of the poop plant[sad]not good.

[Durado]

[q] [/q]I fish the area and see turds the size of boats comming out of the poop plantnot good


No you don't!!! and it's wrong to spread fragulent information like that. Crabs migrate, what may be in the Chester today, might end up in the patapsco tomorrow and the same in reverse. There is an advisory for the Inner Harbor, but the Patapsco starts at Bodkin Point and runs over to Fort Howard and includes 6,7,8 and 9 ft Knoll, Man of war Shoals, Brewerton channel etc.etc, which have historically been proven some of the best fishing around at the right time. With the wash down from the Susky, it's been proven that areas such as Swan Point, Love point and the Chester obtain the same amount of harmful pollution and in some cases more than the Patapsco. The harbor is filthy, I'll admit that, but so is the potomac around D.C. and every other city in and around water. I believe the Patapsco is a large body of water, tanted by a few small sections.....[sad][smile]

[C-Hawk18]

Durado,

I agree with you 100% in reference to the tidal movements and crab migration but I hope you know that the advisory is not just the Inner Harbor. It is the entire Patapsco from I295 to where it meets the Chesapeake Bay including all creeks and such.

[Steve F]

I have to put my 2 cents in on this one. I have been fishing and crabbing the Patapsco for 10 years and have caught many of crabs out of there and I will have to say I have never been sick and the crabs have a very good taste. Yes the river is full of sh## but if anyone has been on the river lately you could see that the water is clear and the fish that I have been catching have been clean and have no sores. I have crab on the Eastern and Western shores for over 30 years and found that the crabs are just about the same everywhere I crab. Just my 2 cents