pennsylvania crabs ???

[tattoo]

 :thumbsup:lips are sealed. 

[Feddog82]

My take on the rules and regulations is if there isn't anything in print that says we can not use our topless traps I'm going to use them until someone tells me otherwise.  It doesn't make any sense that you can use 2 pots and 2 handlines only, think about it.  Who in the He(( is going to drop 2 pots out there and then anchor up with 2 handlines.  It doesn't explain enough anyway........do they mean 2 pots and 2 handlines per person or per boat?  Oh well, I guess I'll find out the hard way.

[ILLSWIMHOME]

I stopped by the peir @ flower St on the way in to work for about 1/2 hr.  Threw in 3 traps w/ necks and pulled one out about 5-5 1/2.  Going back tomorrow with (hopefully) more time.  Anybody comming?  I'll be there around 2-2:30

[tattoo]

good luck buddy , be waiting to hear how you do. least you know the crabs are there. 

[ILLSWIMHOME]

That was my main thing.  I wasn't planning on keeping any today, just wanted to see f I could find one or 2.  There's a LOT of current there.  I weigh down my traps with a railroad spike and they still move quite a bit before hitting the floor.  btw....IF you want to use the peir, make sure you have about 25-30 ft of rope on your traps. 

Hey Tat, if I get a couple, you want em? 

[tattoo]

are you teasing me with only a couple. 

[ILLSWIMHOME]

Just saying if I got a 1/2 a doz or so I won't be taken em into work with me.  If you want em I'll be on Center Sqare Rd.

[tattoo]

If i could get ther , sure i would take you up on that . what time will you be there if you catch em

[ILLSWIMHOME]

I work 2nd shift 4-12

[tattoo]

let me know . i will B-mail you my Phone # my wife gets home at 7 she ciould bring me there . just have to let me know where at. Oh by the way I use to work at cardinal health  in that park. 

[ILLSWIMHOME]

I think there's 2 Cardnial Health's down here.....was it across the street from the Produce Junction building?

[tattoo]

Yes it was , I worked night shift. intill I had my strokes. Last nite I worked i got an ambulance ride to the hospital , that was almost 2 years ago.

[ILLSWIMHOME]

I am very sorry to hear that.


I'm in the building next door to that one.  Priority

[tattoo]

NO problem I am doing ok , just not suppose to drive . because of my short term memory loss. don't want to get some plae and forget how to get back. 

[ReelQuick]

Covert crab drop!(This is Red One calling Blue leader)......The fox is in the hen house---I repeat the fox is in the hen house.I LOVE IT!!!!!!

[tattoo]

 

[ILLSWIMHOME]

Abort, I repeat ABORT!  Healy is on to us.  We will rondevu at a later time!

[CaptainHook]

I was out trying to fish yesterday and even though tons of big catfish were there most of my bait was stolen by crabs. There are tons of them out there right now. They are really good sized as well. I caught and brought a few home the other day. They were kind of hit and miss on eating though. Some were wonderful and some were full of nasty silt from the river.

[ILLSWIMHOME]

How was the current where you were at? 

I like the peir in Chester but the water moves too fast

[Pinchy]

For what it's worth: http://www.fish.state.pa.us/fishpub/summary/00consumption_advisory.pdf

No mention of crabs, but from Trenton to the PA/DE border there is a DO NOT EAT advisory for eels and carp because of PCB contamination. Looks like the crabs are probably OK, as long as you avoid the yellow junk inside.

[ILLSWIMHOME]

A little Mercury never hurt anybody

[tattoo]

If I an going to croke, it might as well be from eating CRABS. 

[Pinchy]

I phoned someone at the PA Dept. of Env. Protection. They haven't done testing on blue crabs yet. Oddly, NJ doesn't say a word about the Delaware River (they probably think of South Jersey as a separate state). The DEP in DE is doing testing, but results not available yet. Here's the fish health advisory link for the state of DE; it's a little troubling because it basically says - "Don't eat anything out of the Delaware River."

On the other hand, DE allows crabbing "in all of its waters" as written in its crabbing regs, so it is a strange conflict of official info. NJ bans crabbing only around the super-toxic Raritan Bay complex, so probably if you clean the DE crabs before cooking they are fine. That, plus the comm traps, lead one to think they must be good crabs.

http://www.fw.delaware.gov/NR/rdonlyres/00E399E5-CF38-435A-B79C-1DAFE0FF00A7/0/2007DEFishAdvisoryChartBlueLineFinalMay17.pdf

[CaptainHook]

Well, I am not really going out and trying to get crabs out of the delaware myself. I just thought it was pretty cool that they were there and very very abundant! I go out on the river with my bro and some friends during the week to do some fishing as it is to far to be running to the chesapeake every day.

But someone is definitely eating alot of crabs from the delaware river!!!! We have counted over 100 commercial pots out there and I have to tell the truth, we pulled a couple up just to have a look and then reset them. I think we may have checked about 2 or three each time out over the past 3 weeks and every time they are loaded like the deadliest catch on discovery channel. Tons or crabs andd all look pretty large! I wonder where they are being sold!!!!!!!!

Illswim.......to answer your question, when we go fishing we go over the other side in about 18 foot of water and the current seems to slow down some outside of the channel.  Or we have been on darby creek and the current is slower there as well. I'll tell you one thing though, the crabs have been eating alot more of our fishing bait than the fish! And for what it is worth we are catching tons of fish!

[justb21888]

sounds like we are crabbing pretty deep??? 18ft or so??? or is this fishing???