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On Friday 6/15/2012, I wanted to take my kayak crabbing gear out of mothballs and give it a shake down before Nay_Sayer's Frish Fry / Crab Feast Part II on the 23rd. Striper Mike met me at Jonas Green in the morning. It was nice meeting him and seeing him on his first sea trials of his recently purchased Revo. Well, I got to Jonas by 5:30am.... and oh my, the river was littered with crabbers, both commercial and recs. The Severn River only has so many places that you can go run a trot line and they all seemed taken. Well, I guess no crabs today, but I can at least test out my rig. I finally settled on a spot, but not ideal across from Jonas on the other side of the river. Striper Mike came with me. He was catching perch non-stop. Good for him on his first kayak fishing adventure on his Hobie. I ran down my line only twice in 17 to 3 feet of water....yeah not the depths I wanted, but that was the only area available. I did manage to catch and release a fat female crab, and kicked off a couple of small males off the line. The crabbing was really slow in that area, so I guess that is why it was availble. After my test runs, I realize that I should use ligter chains to hold my baited line down, since the Hobie does not have the power needed to pull the heavier gaged chains, that I use on my electric canoe, over the prop. Other than that, things went smoothly. I pulled up my lines and headed back to Jonas with Striper Mike. We met another kayaker who talked to us about his love for kayak fishing... I think his name was Bernie? I am bad with names, but I did tell him about Snaggedline.com.
On Sunday 6/17/2012 SurDog wanted to fish and crab the Severn up near the mouth of the River. We got the Navy Base ramp by 5:20am. We proceeded to fish and crab in the cove of the three Radar towers. Once again, there were a few trotliners, but not as many as Friday. Still they took all the good spots, so I had to squeeze in once again, but at least I found part of my target depths that I was looking for which was 4 to 6 feet of water. John (SurfDog) attempted to crab wit handlines, but did not have any luck with that method, so he concentrated on the perch. By the 10am when we were packing up, John had a small bucket of tastey perch. I ended up with just over two dozen crabs, nine of which I gave to Surf to go with his perch, and yes I used my lighter chains which worked out great. My bigest crabs were caught early in the morning. During the day, I noticed allot of small to medium crabs...mostly males. I had much better luck when I can come close to my target depth.
So in the end, crabs were caught and perch were caught, so far it is looking up for Nay_Sayers Fish Fry / Crabfeast. We just got to locate the good crabbing spots at Herring Bay.
On Sunday 6/17/2012 SurDog wanted to fish and crab the Severn up near the mouth of the River. We got the Navy Base ramp by 5:20am. We proceeded to fish and crab in the cove of the three Radar towers. Once again, there were a few trotliners, but not as many as Friday. Still they took all the good spots, so I had to squeeze in once again, but at least I found part of my target depths that I was looking for which was 4 to 6 feet of water. John (SurfDog) attempted to crab wit handlines, but did not have any luck with that method, so he concentrated on the perch. By the 10am when we were packing up, John had a small bucket of tastey perch. I ended up with just over two dozen crabs, nine of which I gave to Surf to go with his perch, and yes I used my lighter chains which worked out great. My bigest crabs were caught early in the morning. During the day, I noticed allot of small to medium crabs...mostly males. I had much better luck when I can come close to my target depth.
So in the end, crabs were caught and perch were caught, so far it is looking up for Nay_Sayers Fish Fry / Crabfeast. We just got to locate the good crabbing spots at Herring Bay.
otherwise you'll have everyone drooling while you eat like a king.
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