No more time limits for recs?

[willshawker]

I got my boat decal today and I was looking through the booklet they give you. In the crabbing section it states Time Restrictions- NONE. WHats going on here is it a mistake? or did they change it?

NM in another section it gives the times. If this was my first season in this state you could be really confused with this

[genecrabman]

DNR would be more than glad to pass out tickets...

[Mikie]

"If this was my first season in this state you could be really confused with this"

I've been here for 63+ years and I'm STILL confused. Remember, the people writing the laws are all lawyers, as long as it's confusing and ambiguous they stay in business!

[bigcrabrob]

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/regulations/regindex.asp?page=bluecrab


read it . its a time limit on recs .

[willshawker]

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[willshawker]

"If this was my first season in this state you could be really confused with this"

I've been here for 63+ years and I'm STILL confused. Remember, the people writing the laws are all lawyers, as long as it's confusing and ambiguous they stay in business!

haha very very true

[tugcapt]

Are you looking at Coastal bays or Chesapeake Bay?  Coastal Bays has no time restrictions, Chesapeake Bay and tributaries has restrictions.

[crabman1969]

DNR would be more than glad to pass out tickets...

  I wish that there were no time limits so I could crab at night before it gets to 90 degrees.  But where I crab if you dont crab within the legal time limits you will caught and ticketed and 2 tickets inside 1 year of crabbing before legal time you will be facing jail time. 

[mdjohn]

  I wish that there were no time limits so I could crab at night before it gets to 90 degrees.  But where I crab if you dont crab within the legal time limits you will caught and ticketed and 2 tickets inside 1 year of crabbing before legal time you will be facing jail time. 

years ago, I remember running a trotline at night with a coleman lantern rig set up for dipping. also would pick up crabs swimming on the surface.
the Wye would have a lot of boats with coleman lanterns

the water was really calm and the air cool on the water

I remember I made a aluminum sheild for my latern so the light would go out the front and not blind you. it was mounted on a stick and hung away from the boat.

 

[Ronster]

years ago, I remember running a trotline at night with a coleman lantern rig set up for dipping. also would pick up crabs swimming on the surface.
the Wye would have a lot of boats with coleman lanterns

the water was really calm and the air cool on the water

Sounds like better days.

[mdjohn]

Sounds like better days.

always seemed calmer at night, don't remember it ever rough

it was neat - you can stand at wye ramp and see all these boat moving in the dark

lantern in the bow for skimming surface crabs - you had to be there at the right time of the year ( believe it had to be a hot august night )

lantern toward the stern for running a trotline

we would do both

 

it'll get worse as politicians keep passing more and more laws - at some point don't we have enough laws
 

[Seaweed]

The crabs don't always bite in the dark, especially later in the season.

[crabman1969]

The crabs don't always bite in the dark, especially later in the season.

[crabman1969]

Recreational crabbers can handline 24/7 days a week.  I dont do it but my son does each weekend when we go and usually gets a half to 3/4 of a bushel.  The downside to that is he wants to sleep when 5-6 am. comes around.  I dont mind when we are running the trotline because I can do that by myself but yanking traps for 6 or 7 hours is wearing the old man out.

[crabbywaters]

Im with your son.. Drinking beers and handlineing at night sounds like a good time.

[crabman1969]

Im with your son.. Drinking beers and handlineing at night sounds like a good time.

  And that is exactly what he does, drink beer and handline!  So come morning I have a drunk handliner on my hands thinking he is the captain.