Thanks for the video, I’ve been crabbing from a kayak from years along the New England coastline and rarely caught less than 20 crabs on my each trip. I use a chicken wing and tie a knot a foot about the chicken wing and another know a foot about that to let me know when I am near the crab. The crabs will let go when they get close to the surface. Funny also caught quite a few Terrapin turtles over the years. A lot of work involved cooking and cleaning them for an awesome crab sauce I make but we’ll work it. Thanks again and be safe.
Thanks! Unfortunately we forgot the tongs this day. A cull ring would be helpful too. Brady had a tape measure sticker on the inside of his kayak that we used to check the borderline crabs.
@@watersedgetvI have a few sets a tongs that I keep with my crabbing gear. I meant a bushel basket culling ring. It goes on top of your bushel basket to give you more space to fill the bushel. You can remove it when you top of your bushel. You can make one by cutting off the top half of a bushel basket. They sell metal ones in some stores.
We put in right in front of the college campus down there. No ramp but you can easily walk the kayak down to the little beach right there. We were crabbing in four to eight feet of water.
@@KiviStrauss rockfish spawn in rivers, you can catch them up and down river mouths early in the season, after they spawn out they go back out into the bay, later on you might be able to catch some schoolies in the rivers, but they will be few and far in between. if you wanna catch big rockfish right now, go get on a charter
Where are you guys at to be setting so many traps without a commercial license? Down here in NC where I am I can only have 6 traps and every marker has to be marked with my license number.
Look for grassy beds in 5-10 feet of water, if you’re unsure just go fishing for catfish and if your bait gets stolen every 30 seconds, you’re in prime crabbing territory 😂
Man be careful with turtles, if that had been a snapping turtle he could have bitten your finger off. You’d be surprised how long their necks are. A snapping turtle can bite its own tail.
