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Yesterday morning, Foursteps and I decided to hit up the Severn River for some crabs. We got up early and headed out to Jonas with traps & chicken necks. I passed Grady-Black on Rt 50 on the way out there 
We got everything set up, and hit the beach around 5:30 or so. We used 15 traps, set up in varying depths of water. After setting up our traps, we decided to head back to our cars to get a rod & reel to toss some lures for perch. Before heading back out, I made a test cast from the beach. FISH ON! Caught a feisty 9 inch perch. Second cast...fish on! little baby perch. This lure was a killer..well until I lost it on a snag after a ht on the third cast
We went back out an ran our traps. Rinse- repeat. I got off the water at 7:45am, as I had to run over to MVA to get a new driver's license. Lost mine a couple days prior...flying out for work on Monday. That sucked. But luckily the Annapolis MVA is efficient and friendly, so I was in and out...back on the water by 9:15. Foursteps used the Torque while I was away.
After a while, we moved to another location across the river. We ended the day with around 20 crabs. Some of them were BIG....like 6.5". We caught a lot of crabs, just too bad many of them were small and/or females. I had one get loose in the kayak while trying to transfer it to the cooler. Luckily, it was focused on trying to swim away in the little bit of water near my transducer rather than trying to attack me.
It was a good day out there, and nice to come away with some decent crabs. I can't wait to go again. The Torque is perfectly suited for crabbing. We stacked 10+ traps in the rear well. You can run from trap to trap very efficiently assuming you don't overshoot your target, or run over the damn float line! I had to pull the motor three times to clear the prop after running over the line. We were on the water from around 5:30am to 12:30pm. I thik this was the longest I used the battery...and that was including a couple of cross-river tows.
Great day out there. We'll definitely be doing this again.
We got everything set up, and hit the beach around 5:30 or so. We used 15 traps, set up in varying depths of water. After setting up our traps, we decided to head back to our cars to get a rod & reel to toss some lures for perch. Before heading back out, I made a test cast from the beach. FISH ON! Caught a feisty 9 inch perch. Second cast...fish on! little baby perch. This lure was a killer..well until I lost it on a snag after a ht on the third cast
We went back out an ran our traps. Rinse- repeat. I got off the water at 7:45am, as I had to run over to MVA to get a new driver's license. Lost mine a couple days prior...flying out for work on Monday. That sucked. But luckily the Annapolis MVA is efficient and friendly, so I was in and out...back on the water by 9:15. Foursteps used the Torque while I was away.
After a while, we moved to another location across the river. We ended the day with around 20 crabs. Some of them were BIG....like 6.5". We caught a lot of crabs, just too bad many of them were small and/or females. I had one get loose in the kayak while trying to transfer it to the cooler. Luckily, it was focused on trying to swim away in the little bit of water near my transducer rather than trying to attack me.
It was a good day out there, and nice to come away with some decent crabs. I can't wait to go again. The Torque is perfectly suited for crabbing. We stacked 10+ traps in the rear well. You can run from trap to trap very efficiently assuming you don't overshoot your target, or run over the damn float line! I had to pull the motor three times to clear the prop after running over the line. We were on the water from around 5:30am to 12:30pm. I thik this was the longest I used the battery...and that was including a couple of cross-river tows.
Great day out there. We'll definitely be doing this again.
i need a good glove, got a sore finger from a little bastard that some how was double jointed and grabbed my finger, ouch i had to break its claw off to get it off my finger
got some nice perch 1 was 12" and spot. the spawn must have been good we caught 2 of the smallest stripers ive ever seen at 1.5"
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