Nov. 3, 2009

[Crabdaddy]

This is a test. Can you find the Wye ramp is this picture? The picture was taken at 4:02 PM. You could have fished from the parking lot. It was wild!

[jack1747]

Spring tide... It happens quite often when a full/new moon aligns with the sun at the time of the flood tide.  Roads down here have been flooding all week.

[Bob-a-Buoy]

Nice pic....same thing happened on Oct 30th to me....we turned around and crabbed longer....it was not too difficult taking the boat out even with all the water, although feet got wet!
bob

[CrabDog]

Full moon was this past Monday 11/2.....

Hey Jack didn't know Spring tides happen in the Autumn.....
of course they are both equinox's though..... hmmm maybe he is on to something there....

[jack1747]

And then there are neap tides.....    When the moon is out at 90 degrees from the Sun... 

[Chef Lar]

Full moon was this past Monday 11/2.....

Hey Jack didn't know Spring tides happen in the Autumn.....
of course they are both equinox's though..... hmmm maybe he is on to something there....

Better call Pinchy.

[CrabDog]

And then there are neap tides.....    When the moon is out at 90 degrees from the Sun... 

does that mean only 1/4 of the parking lot at wye landing gets flooded....

[jack1747]

That would depend on if it was already flooded or not..     

[R D]

Thats where all my water went,down here we have dry tides with a NE wind.

[CrabDog]

Thats where all my water went,down here we have dry tides with a NE wind.

wait a minute Ron.. how does one have a tide especially when it is "dry"......   
you mean the wind pushes out all the water.... I have had that happen duck hunting in th emarshes down the ES of MD.... next thing you know your duck boat is sitting in muck and 100's ft from the water.......  not fun.... and you can't get out and walk in that [curd] either... it will suck you right down... and get stuck waist deep.. don't ask me how I know either....

[captaincrab55]

wait a minute Ron.. how does one have a tide especially when it is "dry"......  
you mean the wind pushes out all the water.... I have had that happen duck hunting in th emarshes down the ES of MD.... next thing you know your duck boat is sitting in muck and 100's ft from the water.......  not fun.... and you can't get out and walk in that [curd] either... it will suck you right down... and get stuck waist deep.. don't ask me how I know either....

CD,    Did you hear about the Duck Hunter on the Gumpowder about 30 years ago?    He decided to walk home when the wind blew the water out..    After the wind let up, rescuers found him stuck in the mud, tide running, with water nearing the top of his waders...    Good news was;   he stuck his shotgun (unloaded) in his waders to keep it dry and just his pride was hurt..    

[CrabDog]

CD,    Did you hear about the Duck Hunter on the Gumpowder about 30 years ago?    He decided to walk home when the wind blew the water out..    After the wind let up, rescuers found him stuck in the mud, tide running, with water nearing the top of his waders...    Good news was;   he stuck his shotgun (unloaded) in his waders to keep it dry and just his pride was hurt..    

wasn't you was it.......  

 well down the ES in the marshes around taylor's island and deale island, balck water refuge etc. etc.....  that marsh muck can't be walked on period....you will sink immediately to your knees to waist.  more you wiggle more you sink....I walked out by warren road bridge in Loch Raven resevoir across a "mud" flat... it was all silt sunk up to my crotch..... more you wiggled deeper you sunk to m y waist  had a buck of minnows and a couple of rods to go crappie fishing in the fall..... took me three hours to get out...
I was able to lean forward enough to spread out my weight and get out.  suction was so strong it pulled one of my laced up work boots off of my foot.....I broke two rods and was covered in mud head to toe.  I had to reach in by hand and pull out my boot...then slither across the flat to hard ground needless to say..... did't get any fish...
Got home two hours past dark...my parents were flipping out and had the police looking for me.. the cops were at my truck at the top of the hill by the bridge parking lot.....when I came back up... I might have been 18 years old when it happened.. don't know if I could wiggle out of that now a days....  learn your lesson just walking out onto mudflats... another good story but not as good as the time I jumped off a charter boat and broke my........

[captaincrab55]

wasn't you was it.......  

 

It wasn't me..    It was a person from that area....      His first name was John...     

[CrabDog]

It wasn't me..    It was a person from that area....      His first name was John...     

ok do tell more.. is he on here...?   

[captaincrab55]

ok do tell more.. is he on here...?   

He moved to Deleware about 15 years ago....   I lost contact with him when he moved...

[CrabDog]

He moved to Deleware about 15 years ago....   I lost contact with him when he moved...

heck I though it might have been MD "john".....  let me tell you waht though getting stuck like that is a bit scary.. I was lucky it was a lke but got dark quick and had no light etc to get out... so had to crawl out not knowing if I would hit another soft spot again....but in tidal water .. get stuck and tide rise back up... not fun...I am sure more than one duck hunter has died this way...

[captaincrab55]

heck I though it might have been MD "john".....  let me tell you waht though getting stuck like that is a bit scary.. I was lucky it was a lke but got dark quick and had no light etc to get out... so had to crawl out not knowing if I would hit another soft spot again....but in tidal water .. get stuck and tide rise back up... not fun...I am sure more than one duck hunter has died this way...

That hunter was so embarrassed when he found out how many people were out looking for him...     It was an all out search & rescue....

[jack1747]

heck I though it might have been MD "john".....  let me tell you waht though getting stuck like that is a bit scary.. I was lucky it was a lke but got dark quick and had no light etc to get out... so had to crawl out not knowing if I would hit another soft spot again....but in tidal water .. get stuck and tide rise back up... not fun...I am sure more than one duck hunter has died this way...

Had a women die like that down here.  I think is was around year 2000.  Anyway she fell off the pier during low tide and could not get out.  She drowned when the tide came in...  That has got to be a horrible way to go... 

[CrabDog]

Had a women die like that down here.  I think is was around year 2000.  Anyway she fell off the pier during low tide and could not get out.  She drowned when the tide came in...  That has got to be a horrible way to go... 

yeah I agree.. I beat a slow way at that.. and the more you wiggle the deeper you get... I heard a guy hunting around black water back in the 90s had the same thing...

[tattoo]

that is a great picture . How could i go crabbing . how would i get in the boat .  

[R D]

that is a great picture . NO was could i go crabbing . how would i get in the boat . 

Get in the boat before it's launched?

[tattoo]

that would be a good thing to watch . 

[BowMovements]

I hunt Days Cove and with all the tires, debris, trees and logs you can practically walk through there no problem now.  [Sam Hill], probably easier to walk than navigate a boat. 

[kcullip2006]

I hunt Days Cove and with all the tires, debris, trees and logs you can practically walk through there no problem now.  [Sam Hill], probably easier to walk than navigate a boat. 

Nice to know all that [curd] from the landfill runs into the Gunpowder, isn't it?

[BowMovements]

I thought they extended it into the GP and Days!    I would only go through there in a allwelded steel flat.