2022-03-22 oak hill fish camp

[LoveDemBlues]

We spent a few nights at the beautiful oak hill fish camp.
We were mainly working and looking for a place to move to but through in the crab traps overnight with chicken drums and catfish.
So we weren't putting any effort in and the trap would probably get a couple of crabs a couple of times a day.
Surprised at how quick the crabs ate the chicken but didn't pick as much at the fresh catfish i caught.
A one armed male crab grabbed my fish chunk bait 3 times and would wrap it up in between some poles and cost me the hooks, but he was so amusing, I let him go.
Great to see crabs out there and hope they will come roaring back, hoping folks start throwing back the females more often

[SHELLFISH]

Thanks for the report! Not too many reports from the last two years in this area.
I haven't seen anyone crabbing since we had the back to back hurricanes and algae bloom.
The only crabs I have seen are small ones.

[LoveDemBlues]

yeah, have been reading how scarce the crabs were due to the algae blooms and hurricanes?  so was just thrilled to see them.  All of them were small with probably only 2 that were legal size, so threw them back in as well and hopefully catch some of their ancestors in a couple of years 

[Logical1]

yeah, have been reading how scarce the crabs were due to the algae blooms and hurricanes?  so was just thrilled to see them.  All of them were small with probably only 2 that were legal size, so threw them back in as well and hopefully catch some of their ancestors in a couple of years 

At least you know the ecosystem is now healthy enough to support them again.