THE HUDSON RIVER- 2011 Season

[ourtwobeans]

Hey Poks   What did you catch the Perch With.....Bait and type of Pole?

[Angelsaboveny]

Thanks a bunch for the info. This will be our first time crabbing. Can ya possibly give me a few directions to either coldspring or where yyou are headed. I am not sure where any other place but bear mountain dock is. I would be eternally in your debt. We want to go tomorrow.. Unfortunatly we missed it this morning. Also...is it better to fish an incomming or out going tide....or does it not reallly matter. I caught alot of perch the other day  with worms and poles...at the rio resovoir . Thats a really fun place to fish!!! Anyway good luck with the crabbing if ya can send me directions to anywhere i would love it. I will undertsnad any directions..lol well maybe hubby will...

[Pok.ColtsFan]

I wouldn't really say "theyre catching them in Cold Spring", quite yet. Haha. No keepers yet, just smallies. For us, anyway.


For the white perch, catfish, and eels, I'm just using regular night crawlers. 7' Shakespear Alpha Rod with a size 55 reel ($30 for the combo at dicks). I use 14lb line tied off to a barrel swivel with about a 2' leader. size #2 regular hook, with 4oz bank sinker on slider. Cast out, and let it sit.

[joeg]

I have been crabbing 3 times this summer, all at the rockland county park in haverstraw NY. i went june 3rd and didnt even get a little nibble. i tried it out again june 19th caught 6 keepers all pretty big and full of meat, and literally about 25 crabs of 3 inches or less. i then went again today and caught 17 keepers and again about 25 babies.. however it was so hit or miss.. i arrived with the tide on its way in and caught about 12 in the first 1.5 hrs.. however for the next 5 hrs i stayed, i only reeled in another 5, it got deadly slow at points, but not a bad early july outing this far up the river..

[Loudmouth879]

glad to hear some are in haverstraw already. Me and my cousin have been going every year for the past 5 years or so and we've slaughtered them. last year we got 30 something when we went and last year got in the 40's twice

[Angelsaboveny]

Thanks for the info. I wish i knew were that part was in rockland. I am from orange county. So i dont know much down there. I will have to try and look. Am i wrong in saying most are arriving at 9 am and staying the day? or should we get there early with the tide comming in.....i am thinking  the lader....8-9 am ish...lol Thanks for any responses...

[ourtwobeans]

Angels if you can mapquest or use a navigation unit put in Cold Spring Train Station as Destination and you'll be right there....Otherwise the easiest way is come across the newburgh beacon bridge, exit route 9 south towards Peekskill and after like 8 - 10 miles turn left onto route 301 and head all the way into Cold Spring.   I myself will probably head down to Croton this weekend!

[Angelsaboveny]

THANKS A BUNCH!! hOPING TO GET A NICE DINNER FOR MY FAMILY. oops caps. Never cooked a live crab or cleaned. i do know how to tell the difference between male and female. I know they have to be atleast 4 and a half inches....but question is that the shell? or from claw to claw. And i know you  cannot keep females... Any directions to croton would be nice to...hehehe...thankies.

[Dreampixels]

Point to point tip a crossed the shell.

[Pok.ColtsFan]

THANKS A BUNCH!! hOPING TO GET A NICE DINNER FOR MY FAMILY. oops caps. Never cooked a live crab or cleaned. i do know how to tell the difference between male and female. I know they have to be atleast 4 and a half inches....but question is that the shell? or from claw to claw. And i know you  cannot keep females... Any directions to croton would be nice to...hehehe...thankies.

To measure, it's point to point. And, LEGALLY, you can keep females, as long as no eggs are present. Most crabbers, including myself, throw back ALL females.

For directions to anywhere, just use google maps or mapquest. 

[Pok.ColtsFan]

Anyone been out lately?

[Angelsaboveny]

Hey Poks...we went out on our first crabbing trip on friday. We caught 18 non keepers from cold spring and 1 keeper from croton. We were having so much fun but then a bad storm came in and ruined our day. We are going to head out in thee morning and try bear mountain pier. And maybe somewhere in rockland county....anyone else having any luck? Ps the keeper was a lil over 5 inches. male. we did take it home cause my son was dying to try it..lol. So yes i steamed it. I have to say it had alot of meat in it for being just over 5 inches...lol

[Pok.ColtsFan]

Hey Poks...we went out on our first crabbing trip on friday. We caught 18 non keepers from cold spring and 1 keeper from croton. We were having so much fun but then a bad storm came in and ruined our day. We are going to head out in thee morning and try bear mountain pier. And maybe somewhere in rockland county....anyone else having any luck? Ps the keeper was a lil over 5 inches. male. we did take it home cause my son was dying to try it..lol. So yes i steamed it. I have to say it had alot of meat in it for being just over 5 inches...lol

Awsome! Sounds like a good day, other than the storm. We are still yet to catch a keeper this year. Hopefully later today!

[Angelsaboveny]

didnt get to go out today. We are definitly going out tommorrow. Let me know how you make out Pok. Where do you crab from? I talked to someone yesterday and said bear mountain pier gets awsome crabs....we are heading there. JMy hubby is less optomistic now that he actually saw some  crabs...lol I did see someone taking the small ones we were putting back. I wanted to say something but hubby said mind my own buisness.  I think it was wrong...but hey i am new to this...hey wait if i am new then they should know the rules..lol....

[pyboat]

Caught 25 keepers  in 6 hours near the Tappan Zee Bridge on 7/9/11.

[tattoo]

Nice. 

[Pok.ColtsFan]

didnt get to go out today. We are definitly going out tommorrow. Let me know how you make out Pok. Where do you crab from? I talked to someone yesterday and said bear mountain pier gets awsome crabs....we are heading there. JMy hubby is less optomistic now that he actually saw some  crabs...lol I did see someone taking the small ones we were putting back. I wanted to say something but hubby said mind my own buisness.  I think it was wrong...but hey i am new to this...hey wait if i am new then they should know the rules..lol....

Tell him that if more people did that, there'd never be any legal size crabs for us to get! haha. In my opinion, you definetly should say something, or call DEC. It's possible they just don't know the laws, and need to be informed.   

[Angelsaboveny]

Tell him that if more people did that, there'd never be any legal size crabs for us to get! haha. In my opinion, you definetly should say something, or call DEC. It's possible they just don't know the laws, and need to be informed.   

They sounded like they didnt speak english to well. They were speaking some sort of asian. But next time i sure will try to say something...lol

As for the nice crabber that was out near the tappen zee bridge. Where were you fishing. My hubby said we should go down that way but i wouldnt know where to try to fish. I got an awsome crab cake recipie i want to try out.....could anyone give me a heads up on where to possibly go for good crabs? i wont get in your way i promise...lol We wont be going out to often..lmao.

[ourtwobeans]

Glad to see some people had more luck than us.  We were at Croton Point Park Sunday along the West wall (east side of river) Only 1 keeper that we ended up not keeping...LOL   About a dozen Juvies....and the kids caught what appeared to be two baby stripers (about 2-3 inches)  All in all it was a beautiful day.  Croton is not my normal spot but I am waiting for them to come further North.  Please keep the updates coming!

[Angelsaboveny]

Glad to see some people had more luck than us.  We were at Croton Point Park Sunday along the West wall (east side of river) Only 1 keeper that we ended up not keeping...LOL   About a dozen Juvies....and the kids caught what appeared to be two baby stripers (about 2-3 inches)  All in all it was a beautiful day.  Croton is not my normal spot but I am waiting for them to come further North.  Please keep the updates coming!

croton point park? I think thats where we were. But not sure. Actually I think we were at croton landing. Is that the same place? We passed a park but it said residents only. So we went down to the landing. Beautiful spot but a very large rock wall...I couldnt get up there neither could my daughter, just my son and my hubby. Am I in the right spot? lol

[Pok.ColtsFan]

Was in Cold Spring last night with dmuprh and hxc_vdubb, like every monday. Caught at least 15 smallies, but finaly got one keeper. 4 3/4". .Just tossed him back at the end of the night, sence it was the only one. Its a good sign, though! Also pulled in about 8 perch, 5 catfish, and 3 eels with the poles.

[Dmurph82288]

Was in Cold Spring last night with dmuprh and hxc_vdubb, like every monday. Caught at least 15 smallies, but finaly got one keeper. 4 3/4". .Just tossed him back at the end of the night, sence it was the only one. Its a good sign, though! Also pulled in about 8 perch, 5 catfish, and 3 eels with the poles.

Thats 1/500    we have a long way to go

[Pok.ColtsFan]

anyone try crabbing at the new fishing pier at the new Long Dock park in Beacon?

[Dave N]

I went down to an old favorite place yesterday. Hadn't gone in the past couple of years because of the walk, and a snapping turtle the size of a sewer cap that used to terrorize my traps. If 4 inch crabs were legal I could have had the limit. Lots of smaller crabs to. I don't keep crabs less then 5 inches.  I had 7 traps out, ended up with 8 keepers between 6:30 am and noon. Oh and that old snapper wasn't there but his younger brother was and did get into my traps a couple of times.

[johnnyutah]

Launched at Georges island today got 39 keepers.  Had 16 nets used sunnies, bunker & bluefish. not as many shorts as last time out but the keepers were all big crabs 5 1/2-6in.  Saw some guys on the annsville creek bridge crabbing, don't know how they did.  Good luck to all