Oak Hill , Fl 4/2/17

Tootallwal · April 03, 2017, 07:46:40 AM

Hello friends,
I headed out to the pier and culvert area on river rd about 6 am . I wanted to get there earlier but my sleepy head kept telling me 5 more minutes

. I dropped in a few ring nets and a few hand lines baited with chicken necks , it was a out going tide. Between 7:30 and 12pm I caught about 16 medium sized jimmies and 6 keeper females. I also caught a bunch of smaller ones to small to keep!
Around 12:15 I moved further south towards the culverts. I dropped in some ring nets and 1 large trap,from 12:45 to 2:30 I caught a additional 18 crabs ....

It was a beautiful day to be out crabbing and I was blessed to have caught enough to steam up ..

Here are a few pics. Good luck !!

ChrisS · April 03, 2017, 08:30:19 AM

Great report!

Thanks for posting

SHELLFISH · April 03, 2017, 08:43:38 AM

Thanks for the report! Looks like you finished them off already! I'll bet they were good!

Tootallwal · April 03, 2017, 09:15:13 AM

Shellfish - my wife and kids could not wait for me to get home fast enough. They were delicious and were very full of meat

evinrude 130 · April 03, 2017, 09:54:12 AM

Been waiting to read some reposts like yours. Hope everyone has a great year crabbing with the results you posted. Nothing like eating steamed crabs .

Muslickz · April 04, 2017, 02:57:33 PM

Nice report! and a great job!

They look Delish!

-Muslickz

riverpop · April 05, 2017, 12:11:21 AM

good job, everybody is getting excited for 2017.

SHELLFISH · April 09, 2017, 02:47:09 PM

I took a drive around to see if I could find anyone crabbing. First I went down to the Oak Hill flea market and drove on to Goodriches culvert. I met TootallPaul who had just arrived and was setting up. Real nice fella and it was my great pleasure to meet you! I'm sure we will meet again and I await your report.
I left the culvert area and drove around the corner to meet a young family crabbing the slough further south. They explained they had been crabbing for about two hours and their young son explained proudly they had caught 16 crabs! I looked at the crabs caught and most were in the 4.5 to 5.5 inch range with a couple of 6+" crabs also.
Just a perfect day for crabbing with low humidity, a great temperature in the 70's and the water is warming up!
Everyone is catching more crabs than myself as I haven't been out once yet!