Grew up on the Gulf Coast of Texas. When I was a kid we would catch blue crabs from the shore using chicken and a string. The smaller wing parts worked just as well as the legs. We would anchor the string to the shore and then toss the chicken-string out 90 degrees to the shoreline. And then watch. When the string started moving sideways from its original position you had "CRAB ON!" Those were the days.
Very interesting. I sent you link to a niece and her husband plus a dear friend who spent 2.5 years together teaching Agriculture at an Ag College in Uganda East Africa. He lives in Florida so I hope he uses this technique you showed us. GREAT VIDEO! Dennis Kluver
I'm gonna guess 53 crabs. My son and I still watch your videos whenever I get a notification that you have uploaded. He was so excited because he loves catching crabs and loves eating them even more. Same as before. I was leaving to go offshore and he made me promise not to watch any of your videos without him. As always great content and definitely one of my favorite TH-camrs.
As soon as I clicked on the show I recognized the location, been fishing there over fifty years, great spot . 67 crabs. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
Old Chesapeake Bay recipe passed down from hubby’s grandpa: equal parts water, beer, and vinegar. Palm full of JO seasoning, 1/2 palm full black pepper & salt (each), steam crabs about 20 minutes! We live on Sapelo Sound coastal GA & excellent crabbing, shrimping, and fishing!! Richard LOVES your channel!! I am retired schoolteacher…
@@davidrahn4817nope. Absolutely zero crab houses use Old Bay. It’s the tourist spice. JO all the way. In fact we often say Marylanders put Old Bay on everything…except crabs!
Never did it any other way. Grew up in Maryland on the Chesapeake, Patuxent, Potomac and Choptank. Chicken necks work best. We could get a half a bushel in about an hour or so. Chickenneckers were mocked but we always got plenty.
I love crabbing this way, but we did it from the dock. There was an old man I’d see all the time doing it too. I always hope he’s still there crabbing away.
Pro-tip: float your crab basket in an car/truck size inner tube. Tie a line on the basket to your belt loop so you can crab and net them into your basket.
Used to use the chicken on the string as a kid, it didn't take long to get enough, we used to pull them out of the water even off like little bridges, most of the time they don't let go.
Great video Tug! What an awesome day to spend with your best friend. Love seeing Crystal just being Crystal. Her joie de vie. Her Dad joke humour. Lol. Some awesome catches. I guarantee my 27 that I guessed is low but I’m happy for you for that. The crab and then the crab Dib looked so good. Lol’ed at the Bianca call out on chicken drumsticks. Lol. Honestly, thanks for sharing!!! So much. Love your channel & family.
Another great video folks, and I'm with you on taking kids crabbing! I know the spot but it's been ages since I've been there, used to net some monster shrimp there. One of these days I'll learn not to watch these on an empty belly!
75 crabs. We lived behind a Creek and people used to sit and crab. They did not use nets.. Those crabs hung on to the bait all the way to the creek bank. Thanks for posting.
I was born in Wash DC & grew up in Rockville, MD. Catching crabs exactly the way you do in this video in Chesapeake, MD. Catch crabs with chicken on a string is a blast! We stumbled on another cool way to catch crabs at Piney Point, MD, at night where the crabs swim to you & you only have to net them. You can fill a laundry basket in an hour. There was a lighted pier with a fueling station for boats. At night, the crabs swim along the top of the water, feeding by the lamp light. Thre current brings them towards you & all you have to do is scoop them up in a long handled net like you are using. Ty-wrap &/ or tape an extension handle, so you snatch them up close or far out! This video rocks!
My guess is 57. We also use a trout line with no hooks to fish crabs. Tie the bait to the loops. Sink poles for the length of the trout line. Weights on both ends next to the poles with enough slack for the weights and bait to sit on the bottom. Fun way to crab wading in the water.
You from up north with that trot lining down here we can use traps my family runs about 6k traps a week we ship all of them up north to Maryland the so called blue crab capital
@@Justthemow I’m from Louisiana and this is for recreational crabbing. Not commercial. When crabbing on the beach we use a trout line. From the weir or out of the boat we use drop nets or lines.
@@elridgemarksjr573 lacombe here never seen anyone running trot lines in the lake. My family all crabs my wife’s grandfather invented inshore shedding systems and the rake system for his boats. I’ve seen people using drop nets or 2x2 crab pots but never any trot lining I used to run 600 traps a day my father in law ran 800
@@Justthemow this is old but you don’t see a lot of folk from Lacombe! Me and my nephew used to kill em at the end of lake road just after Katrina. You’d have thought we were in Buras catching big reds and big trout. But that was a while ago. Is it still fishy?
Good crab feast! That’s a lot of vinegar! I steam them using half water, half beer, a splash of apple cider vinegar, and some JO#2. I use the cheapest quart of beer they sell like Bud or old English.
Just found your page and subscribed immediately. Great content. I am always fishing but you’ve inspired me to go get some crab with some friends and daughter. I’ll head out to the “spot” as we’re in St Johns County. Thanks for the awesome video👊🏼👏🏻!!!🦀
Great day wish I was there. We used to set it up like a trot line. Two poles with the line strung out and bait tied on the stagions about a foot long tied about six or eight feet apart. You walk along let the line slide over your fingers. We used to do this by boat. Love the vids. 4 dozen crabs
I will guess 61 crabs!! I don’t think I could do that without a dedicated gator watcher. You guys make really good videos together and hope you get more subscribers!
Great video ! I used to crab with my grandfather, father and sister on the Hudson River Shores. We used shiney fish heads on a string and when we couldn't see the fish head any more scoop up with a net where the fish head was.
I lived in and worked out of Jacksonville for many years doing ocean towing. Fortunately, I stumbled onto your videos and thoroughly enjoyed them. Cudos and keep up the great work !!
Just discovered your channel today. I do the same types of adventures as you and feel I have a similar personality. Working on starting up my own videos out of my kayaks. Something I've been working towards for a while. Glad to see how much traction you have been able to get with your videos doing the same stuff I do. Just spent a couple hours at low tide harvesting wild clams and oysters for tomorrow's Superbowl.
Love that crab car recipe. You say you like cooking suggestions. I want to give you one. Take it a little progressive Italian bread crumbs already have parmesan in them. Mix that good with them and then top it. You get a nice little crust
I did this style of crabbing as a child in VA. The water was about a foot deep w/out the risk of gators. If I lived in Florida, I would put the chicken on a line on top of a bigger net, and I would sit in the boat. When the crab is on top of the chicken, just pull up the net/chicken neck combo.
On that crap dip... Looks delicious. One thing from my cooking would be to add about a teaspoon of "Scorned Woman " hot sauce to a dish of that size. It's hot. But the absolutely best tasting hot sauce on the market. (In my opinion). BTW, congrats on your anniversary! Brand new subscriber.
Enjoyed your video, I have crabbed only once with my Dad when I was a kid ! Just moved to Live Oak Florida a year ago. Planning to go crabbing soon if I can find a partner! I am retired and am 72 year’s young! God bless!
A superb video, my friend I am from Connecticut and we have a blue crabbing season up here from May 1 to the end of October. I use a small aluminum boat with hand lines and do exactly what you do a fantastic method and I absolutely love your videos.
@TugTrashOutdoors all good part of life. Great videos love watching and hate it at same time.. I love crabs and can't get them here lol... keep up the content
When I was a kid, I don't know seems about 100 years ago, my grandmother and aunt used to take me crabbing, doing exactly this, but with a fresh chicken from my grandmother's yard. Catching crabs as fast as you could throw the bait back in the water while sitting on the end of a dock. Lifetime ago but feels like yesterday.
@@TugTrashOutdoors he docked ships in the Savannah harbor the last 28 years of his career, but he worked on pilot boats (his dad and older brother were both pilots in Savannah), lash barges, supply boats, ready reserve ships, and Getty oil tankers among other things. I’m glad you have a wonderful wife who helps to make it work!
Use to crab like that off of the beach as a kid. Dad would set it up and !y brother and I would run the lines. Almost sixty years ago. Keep eyes open for gators.
I watched the other video of the cook portion where you made the shrimp on the tugboat. It made me smile to see you feeding your crew such a delicious meal. I too am an old towboater having worked on the coast and ran the rivers for several years in my youth. I was a tankerman when I quit riding. I remember we had beans and rice everyday with our meal. Cap was a cajun and could cook like you wouln't believe. Home office wouldn't let us buy shrimp so we traded passing shrimp boats for it. Coffee or diesel or steaks. We could buy all the ribeyes we wanted just not seafood..It was the most fun job I ever had. Hard work but time went by fast underway. The outfit I worked for, Coastal Towing, was bought out by Kirby. keep up the great videos. I'm a new subscriber. What was the count on those crabs?
So you've made a modified trotline. Interesting. I use a single 1600 foot line, small boat, and a small piece of salt ell attached every 30 feet. Crabs all day long. Great video and love your enthusiasm. Mike from Cambridge, Maryland, right on the Choptank river. (Home of the Maryland Blue Crabs)
That looked about like 3/4 bushel so I will guess about 48 crabs. However, while I do not know the regulations where you are, up here in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, only commercial licensed fishermen can keep females. Whenever you catch a "doubler" we return the females back to continue the population. Lastly, I have not seen your other videos, and maybe you have already done so, but we typically use a trot line with chicken gizzards spaced about 8 ft. apart. The license allows for up to 1200 ft total so we usually have a 700 and 500 ft lines.
try the beginning of high tide with four lines north, south, east, west in order toss and retrieve. I have done this in Charleston and collected over 7 dozen in side of an hour multiple times. using four lines, 1 solid laundry hamper a net and chicken backs.
Never been crabbing, live in the cold Midwest but love crab but can’t afford to buy it, very jealous of you so the next best thing is to watch your videos😮😊
Hey Tug Trash we used to freeze all the claws then let them defrost just to where you can start bending the joints then whack um wit a rubber or wood mallet and we always seemed to be able to get all the meat.
That’s an au gratin dish. Loving your videos. We had a house boat in the St John’s when I was younger and blue crab were a thing. Love them ❤ I would have added a touch of cream cheese to that dip, but that’s me.
I did this as a child. But even cheaper is to fish one day, save the fish head and leave it out so that it gets stinky and use that as the bait. Use up your waste to get your next meal! 🦀
A lil tip from The Coo-Nass: buy the really cheap knee high stockings, put the chicken in the stockings, tie it off then tie to the string. Bait lasts longer & their claws tend to get caught in the stockings & they get away near as often.
I found your channel yesterday and watched the video where you hauled a barge from Jacksonville to Guantanamo and did some snorkeling. I'm getting on up in age (76) and am mostly bedridden. I am sick of all the politics on TH-cam. Your channel has adventures that I can go on vicariously. I grew up in Jacksonville, but I retired near Louisville, Kentucky. In my younger days my favorite adventure was deep sea fishing off of Cape Canaveral. Looking forward to checking out your psst videos.
Hey man thank you very much! I love to hear comments like this. I wish your were more mobile but also happy you happy you have been able to live through my videos too. Little stories like this is a driving factor in making this videos for y’all. Thanks again for the support
Growing up in eastern NC this was common knowledge (how to catch crabs). I’ve netted many a bushel in my time. I didn’t see in the video but you should mention there are size limits (in NC they must be 5” across the carapace to be legal and you can only keep so many per person. You also need licenses to crab!
Tug my family and I come to St Augustine ever year for vacation!! where do I need to crab? I have fished at the inlet on the mantanza, bascule draw bridge and surf fished!
Id say that looks like about 3 dozen beautiful crabs. Oh my I just watched the baked garlic crab and im still drooling. Lol i grew up on the coast in Corpus Christi. Commercial fishing… mostly ran a shrimp boat but ran traps. Gill nets for bait 😉. Ate so much i was sick of it lol but Now i live in The middle of Oklahoma 😢 and haven’t had good fresh coastal seafood in a long time. I love watching your videos, i can almost smell the air. And smell and taste the food. Thanks for the content. Guessing im probably late for the guess but oh well ill find out how close i was😮 keep on fishin yall. Ps. One of my favorite ways for blue crab was on the grill with bbq sauce mmmmmmm
My mother and I used to sit on the New River seawall in Ft. Lauderdale and used chicken, necks and backs that were REALLY cheap. We would always get a bucket of crabs. Times have changed with limits and sizes but there are still people catching "legals. Legs were much more expensive than the backs and necks even back then . I was 10-11 years old and I am 76 now. You figure. BTW, can't find backs and necks in the grocery stores anymore.
Grew up on the Gulf Coast of Texas. When I was a kid we would catch blue crabs from the shore using chicken and a string. The smaller wing parts worked just as well as the legs. We would anchor the string to the shore and then toss the chicken-string out 90 degrees to the shoreline. And then watch. When the string started moving sideways from its original position you had "CRAB ON!" Those were the days.
Awesome!
Very interesting. I sent you link to a niece and her husband plus a dear friend who spent 2.5 years together teaching Agriculture at an Ag College in Uganda East Africa. He lives in Florida so I hope he uses this technique you showed us. GREAT VIDEO! Dennis Kluver
I was there when I was young.Also in the galveston , the way out
I'm gonna guess 53 crabs. My son and I still watch your videos whenever I get a notification that you have uploaded. He was so excited because he loves catching crabs and loves eating them even more. Same as before. I was leaving to go offshore and he made me promise not to watch any of your videos without him. As always great content and definitely one of my favorite TH-camrs.
Y’all are the perfect antidote to a cruddy day! So good.
Glad we could help!
As soon as I clicked on the show I recognized the location, been fishing there over fifty years, great spot . 67 crabs. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
It’s a special place!
Where is this place
Old Chesapeake Bay recipe passed down from hubby’s grandpa: equal parts water, beer, and vinegar. Palm full of JO seasoning, 1/2 palm full black pepper & salt (each), steam crabs about 20 minutes! We live on Sapelo Sound coastal GA & excellent crabbing, shrimping, and fishing!! Richard LOVES your channel!! I am retired schoolteacher…
Awesome! Not too far north of us!
If you are from the Chesapeake Bay area you know that using JO is a sin! Old Bay is the only crab spice allowed. lol.
@@davidrahn4817nope. Absolutely zero crab houses use Old Bay. It’s the tourist spice. JO all the way. In fact we often say Marylanders put Old Bay on everything…except crabs!
Never did it any other way. Grew up in Maryland on the Chesapeake, Patuxent, Potomac and Choptank. Chicken necks work best. We could get a half a bushel in about an hour or so. Chickenneckers were mocked but we always got plenty.
Awesome
I love crabbing this way, but we did it from the dock. There was an old man I’d see all the time doing it too. I always hope he’s still there crabbing away.
Me too. Takes a long time, but if you have the supplies for the day or so you can catch a bunch.
Congratulations on passing 20k . You're living it up right - keep up the good work!
Pro-tip: float your crab basket in an car/truck size inner tube. Tie a line on the basket to your belt loop so you can crab and net them into your basket.
Congrats on 1 year Tug. You guys are the best.❤
5 dozen crabs!
You and my husband would have a blast! 😂
We LOVE your channel! Happy 1 year!!
Looks like 35 crabs 🦀 to me Ian you and Crystal killed it . Happy 1 years mile stone
When I was in the Navy mono tied on chicken necks that we reused over and over. Tied to our belt loops.👍
67 is my guess
Used to use the chicken on the string as a kid, it didn't take long to get enough, we used to pull them out of the water even off like little bridges, most of the time they don't let go.
Awesome!
Great video Tug! What an awesome day to spend with your best friend. Love seeing Crystal just being Crystal. Her joie de vie. Her Dad joke humour. Lol. Some awesome catches. I guarantee my 27 that I guessed is low but I’m happy for you for that. The crab and then the crab Dib looked so good. Lol’ed at the Bianca call out on chicken drumsticks. Lol.
Honestly, thanks for sharing!!! So much. Love your channel & family.
Another great video folks, and I'm with you on taking kids crabbing! I know the spot but it's been ages since I've been there, used to net some monster shrimp there. One of these days I'll learn not to watch these on an empty belly!
Where is the spot pls? My husband and I are in Orlando but willing to travel for a chance to get some crabs. :)
I crabbed in Beaufort Marine Air Station off their Boat Docks....case of Beer never opened....filled 2 bushels about a hour
75 crabs. We lived behind a Creek and people used to sit and crab.
They did not use nets.. Those crabs hung on to the bait all the way to the creek bank.
Thanks for posting.
My guess is 55 crabs! you guys killed it!!! Congratulations on your one year milestone. We enjoy watching your adventures!
No size limit I guess keep everything. Most places they have to be at least 6 inches.
40
Great video look forward to seeing more
@@IamAnubis-oj7tk we have no size limit karen
I'm guessing you caught more crabs than a teenager at Spring Break!
I'd be happy with just a shirt 🤜🏼🤛🏼
What a catch!! Having been crabbing in Charleston SC since I was a child..catch of the day perhaps 74..best videos ever!
Old video but I think you are right
You two are the coolest couple to watch!! I’m with your wife! I’m terrified of alligators!!! Be safe!!
Wow, thank you!
Man your absolutely hands down my favorite TH-camr congratulations on your one year. Just keep making videos and keeping it real.
Thank you buddy!
This is how my grandma taught us how to crab, literally. Y’all rock Bro ❤️🔥
Awesome!!!
I'm going with 76 crabs. Keep up the great videos!
Hi guys! You have so much fun❤ I think you caught 145 crabs😊 Crystal I'm right there with ya and the alligators.
I was born in Wash DC & grew up in Rockville, MD. Catching crabs exactly the way you do in this video in Chesapeake, MD. Catch crabs with chicken on a string is a blast! We stumbled on another cool way to catch crabs at Piney Point, MD, at night where the crabs swim to you & you only have to net them. You can fill a laundry basket in an hour. There was a lighted pier with a fueling station for boats. At night, the crabs swim along the top of the water, feeding by the lamp light. Thre current brings them towards you & all you have to do is scoop them up in a long handled net like you are using. Ty-wrap &/ or tape an extension handle, so you snatch them up close or far out! This video rocks!
What a blast!
That looks like a lot more fun than up here in the NW where we have to drop pots in 40-150’ of water and our limit is 6 per person.
It does!
I love how you clean up the trash from the slobs that don't and turn loose those crabs that are disadvantaged. ❤
My guess is 57. We also use a trout line with no hooks to fish crabs. Tie the bait to the loops. Sink poles for the length of the trout line. Weights on both ends next to the poles with enough slack for the weights and bait to sit on the bottom. Fun way to crab wading in the water.
You from up north with that trot lining down here we can use traps my family runs about 6k traps a week we ship all of them up north to Maryland the so called blue crab capital
@@Justthemow I’m from Louisiana and this is for recreational crabbing. Not commercial. When crabbing on the beach we use a trout line. From the weir or out of the boat we use drop nets or lines.
@@elridgemarksjr573 lacombe here never seen anyone running trot lines in the lake. My family all crabs my wife’s grandfather invented inshore shedding systems and the rake system for his boats. I’ve seen people using drop nets or 2x2 crab pots but never any trot lining I used to run 600 traps a day my father in law ran 800
@@Justthemow this is old but you don’t see a lot of folk from Lacombe! Me and my nephew used to kill em at the end of lake road just after Katrina. You’d have thought we were in Buras catching big reds and big trout. But that was a while ago. Is it still fishy?
Good crab feast! That’s a lot of vinegar! I steam them using half water, half beer, a splash of apple cider vinegar, and some JO#2. I use the cheapest quart of beer they sell like Bud or old English.
Yum!
Congrats on 1 year!! I enjoy your videos! And hope yall enjoy all 48 of those crabs!
Just found your page and subscribed immediately. Great content. I am always fishing but you’ve inspired me to go get some crab with some friends and daughter. I’ll head out to the “spot” as we’re in St Johns County. Thanks for the awesome video👊🏼👏🏻!!!🦀
Thanks for subscribing! I hope y’all get them. That’s such a cool spot!
Great day wish I was there. We used to set it up like a trot line. Two poles with the line strung out and bait tied on the stagions about a foot long tied about six or eight feet apart. You walk along let the line slide over your fingers. We used to do this by boat. Love the vids. 4 dozen crabs
I will guess 61 crabs!! I don’t think I could do that without a dedicated gator watcher. You guys make really good videos together and hope you get more subscribers!
That Cajun pirouge is a warning to gators suggesting a hungry Cajun might be gator huntin the area . Gators are deathly affraid of a hungry Cajun.
37 crabs.
The cheapest way to catch crabs is rent a ten dollar motel in California 🙄
O m g.
I mean, you're not wrong.
57 crabs
LMBAO
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Great video ! I used to crab with my grandfather, father and sister on the Hudson River Shores. We used shiney fish heads on a string and when we couldn't see the fish head any more scoop up with a net where the fish head was.
144 crabs. Nice crabs. Thanks for sharing👍
Do not respond to scammers. This is the only account I’ll ever contact you from!!!! One guess only! Multiple guesses will be disqualified.
I'm old. How do I make a comment?44 crabs. I keep pushing buttons. Why is it so hard to make a comment?
40. Cra bs?
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I lived in and worked out of Jacksonville for many years doing ocean towing. Fortunately, I stumbled onto your videos and thoroughly enjoyed them. Cudos and keep up the great work !!
Wow, thank you! Who did you work for?
@@TugTrashOutdoors tidewater
Just discovered your channel today. I do the same types of adventures as you and feel I have a similar personality. Working on starting up my own videos out of my kayaks. Something I've been working towards for a while. Glad to see how much traction you have been able to get with your videos doing the same stuff I do.
Just spent a couple hours at low tide harvesting wild clams and oysters for tomorrow's Superbowl.
Welcome aboard!
Good luck!
Love that crab car recipe. You say you like cooking suggestions. I want to give you one. Take it a little progressive Italian bread crumbs already have parmesan in them. Mix that good with them and then top it. You get a nice little crust
Great suggestion!
I love the way you two interact during the videos. You're a great couple. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I did this style of crabbing as a child in VA. The water was about a foot deep w/out the risk of gators. If I lived in Florida, I would put the chicken on a line on top of a bigger net, and I would sit in the boat. When the crab is on top of the chicken, just pull up the net/chicken neck combo.
My mom kept her chix necks for yrs in freezer, eastern shore girl. Makes me homesick🦀🛟🌊
On that crap dip... Looks delicious. One thing from my cooking would be to add about a teaspoon of "Scorned Woman " hot sauce to a dish of that size. It's hot. But the absolutely best tasting hot sauce on the market. (In my opinion). BTW, congrats on your anniversary! Brand new subscriber.
Great idea!
112 crabs in the basket, hope I am not late! I’d love a crab for rec use! You and your girl are freaking hilarious! Good vibes
Crabbing takes me back to my youth, Summers in Colonial Beach, VA. Awesome entertaining video, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Enjoyed your video, I have crabbed only once with my Dad when I was a kid ! Just moved to Live Oak Florida a year ago. Planning to go crabbing soon if I can find a partner! I am retired and am 72 year’s young! God bless!
A superb video, my friend I am from Connecticut and we have a blue crabbing season up here from May 1 to the end of October. I use a small aluminum boat with hand lines and do exactly what you do a fantastic method and I absolutely love your videos.
Very cool!
I use to catch a bushel at a time when I went as a younger Lad. Used string, necks and backs left out overnight
So much fun
@TugTrashOutdoors agreed!! My grandparents in Maryland died so we haven't been back in a while... I sure miss crabbing and eating them lol
@@tomchristensen2914 sorry to hear that man
@TugTrashOutdoors all good part of life. Great videos love watching and hate it at same time.. I love crabs and can't get them here lol... keep up the content
You can tie a chicken neck on the inside of a crab basket and have the thing full by the time you get to shore
glad i found the site. good to see everyday folks enjoying real life, thanks
Great recipe! Try w triscuits maybe if u like! They hold up well 😊
Great idea!!
Gosh that crab dip looks AMAZING! 🦀🦀🦀
Did alot of handline crabbing with chicken in the late 90’s in baltimore area. Steamed them with old bay seasoning. Mmm mmm mmm
Yes sir
It's so interesting to see how easy the line with chicken is catching the crab.
The trick is being in the right spot!
70+ years ago, ran trotline with chicken and eel in the Chesapeake. Fun and tasty...
When I was a kid, I don't know seems about 100 years ago, my grandmother and aunt used to take me crabbing, doing exactly this, but with a fresh chicken from my grandmother's yard. Catching crabs as fast as you could throw the bait back in the water while sitting on the end of a dock. Lifetime ago but feels like yesterday.
Wow! Love that I can bring memories like this back for people
Just found your channel! My husband retired from running a tugboat in 2018. Week on, week off.
I’m glad he is home! It’s not an easy life but you can make a great living for a family
@@TugTrashOutdoors he docked ships in the Savannah harbor the last 28 years of his career, but he worked on pilot boats (his dad and older brother were both pilots in Savannah), lash barges, supply boats, ready reserve ships, and Getty oil tankers among other things. I’m glad you have a wonderful wife who helps to make it work!
Use to crab like that off of the beach as a kid. Dad would set it up and !y brother and I would run the lines. Almost sixty years ago. Keep eyes open for gators.
Love it!
I watched the other video of the cook portion where you made the shrimp on the tugboat. It made me smile to see you feeding your crew such a delicious meal. I too am an old towboater having worked on the coast and ran the rivers for several years in my youth. I was a tankerman when I quit riding. I remember we had beans and rice everyday with our meal. Cap was a cajun and could cook like you wouln't believe. Home office wouldn't let us buy shrimp so we traded passing shrimp boats for it. Coffee or diesel or steaks. We could buy all the ribeyes we wanted just not seafood..It was the most fun job I ever had. Hard work but time went by fast underway. The outfit I worked for, Coastal Towing, was bought out by Kirby. keep up the great videos. I'm a new subscriber. What was the count on those crabs?
That’s awesome man!
So you've made a modified trotline. Interesting. I use a single 1600 foot line, small boat, and a small piece of salt ell attached every 30 feet. Crabs all day long. Great video and love your enthusiasm. Mike from Cambridge, Maryland, right on the Choptank river. (Home of the Maryland Blue Crabs)
So I’ve heard!
That looked about like 3/4 bushel so I will guess about 48 crabs. However, while I do not know the regulations where you are, up here in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, only commercial licensed fishermen can keep females. Whenever you catch a "doubler" we return the females back to continue the population. Lastly, I have not seen your other videos, and maybe you have already done so, but we typically use a trot line with chicken gizzards spaced about 8 ft. apart. The license allows for up to 1200 ft total so we usually have a 700 and 500 ft lines.
Guama?
Them shrimp should be running too! Flounder and Redfish in the Fall.
Have fun!
try the beginning of high tide with four lines north, south, east, west in order toss and retrieve. I have done this in Charleston and collected over 7 dozen in side of an hour multiple times. using four lines, 1 solid laundry hamper a net and chicken backs.
The alligators would just freak me out! Looks like fun!
I freak the Alligators out so it’s a stand off lol
Great Video
Takes me back to my childhood crabbing down the New Jersey Shore.
I’d be afraid of crabs getting my feet!! 😂 congrats!!!!!
No, the best thing to get when you come off the water is a shower first and then a cold beer or two or three😂😂😂
I guess 107! I may have missed it, but it looks like a 100 of them boogers! Congratulations on the year! I love your channel that includes Family!
Nice catching crabs! I love crabs. Thanks for sharing from Galveston Texas
Never been crabbing, live in the cold Midwest but love crab but can’t afford to buy it, very jealous of you so the next best thing is to watch your videos😮😊
I have been doing this since I was 10 years old. Crabbing is the best!
Awesome!!
I like your kitchen skills dude. Martha Stewart has nothing on you!
🤣 thanks
70 crabs we used string and chicken also women stocking hard for the crab to get off. Love crabbing. We also use to use old stinky chicken
Great tip!
Hey Tug Trash we used to freeze all the claws then let them defrost just to where you can start bending the joints then whack um wit a rubber or wood mallet and we always seemed to be able to get all the meat.
Cool!
I guess 73 Crabs! Yayyy my favorite blue crabs! We used to do crabbing in Maryland!
That’s an au gratin dish. Loving your videos. We had a house boat in the St John’s when I was younger and blue crab were a thing. Love them ❤ I would have added a touch of cream cheese to that dip, but that’s me.
Very cool!
Congratulations!!!!
44 crabs.
Have fun. 🦀
I did this as a child. But even cheaper is to fish one day, save the fish head and leave it out so that it gets stinky and use that as the bait. Use up your waste to get your next meal!
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A lil tip from The Coo-Nass: buy the really cheap knee high stockings, put the chicken in the stockings, tie it off then tie to the string. Bait lasts longer & their claws tend to get caught in the stockings & they get away near as often.
That is a great idea!
I found your channel yesterday and watched the video where you hauled a barge from Jacksonville to Guantanamo and did some snorkeling. I'm getting on up in age (76) and am mostly bedridden. I am sick of all the politics on TH-cam. Your channel has adventures that I can go on vicariously. I grew up in Jacksonville, but I retired near Louisville, Kentucky. In my younger days my favorite adventure was deep sea fishing off of Cape Canaveral. Looking forward to checking out your psst videos.
Hey man thank you very much! I love to hear comments like this. I wish your were more mobile but also happy you happy you have been able to live through my videos too. Little stories like this is a driving factor in making this videos for y’all. Thanks again for the support
Growing up in eastern NC this was common knowledge (how to catch crabs). I’ve netted many a bushel in my time. I didn’t see in the video but you should mention there are size limits (in NC they must be 5” across the carapace to be legal and you can only keep so many per person. You also need licenses to crab!
I grew up on the coast of North Carolina we used to always use chicken. We never went without crab.
Great content Tug Trash! Knew of you from some colabs you did with other FL TH-camrs and subscribed to your channel. Like your varied activities.
Appreciate it! More to come
Fantastic video bro. Down to earth, good vibes. And yes, pub subs are the BEST. Subscribed. 🤠
We in Maryland don’t clean them before we cook and we use old bey seasoning butter corn tomatoes 🍅 on the side with beer and shrimp 🍤
Try inserting the chicken leg into a pair of leg stockings crab claws get hooked and can’t get loose
If you put a string between two of your poles you could put 15 or as many as you want. Way easier.
Yeah this didn’t work very good haha
Tug my family and I come to St Augustine ever year for vacation!! where do I need to crab? I have fished at the inlet on the mantanza, bascule draw bridge and surf fished!
Id say that looks like about 3 dozen beautiful crabs. Oh my I just watched the baked garlic crab and im still drooling. Lol i grew up on the coast in Corpus Christi. Commercial fishing… mostly ran a shrimp boat but ran traps. Gill nets for bait 😉. Ate so much i was sick of it lol but Now i live in The middle of Oklahoma 😢 and haven’t had good fresh coastal seafood in a long time. I love watching your videos, i can almost smell the air. And smell and taste the food. Thanks for the content. Guessing im probably late for the guess but oh well ill find out how close i was😮 keep on fishin yall.
Ps. One of my favorite ways for blue crab was on the grill with bbq sauce mmmmmmm
Awesome!!!!! I do like them grilled!
Mr. You have a beautiful family. Congratulations.
Thank you! I appreciate that!
When you let that crab go I had to like the video! I really wanna try this method.
78 Carbs Watching From New Jersey ♥️☮️
Yall are doing a fantastic job, keep up the good work.!!!!!!!!!
Took my buddy and his young son out hand lining today. I pulled up one leg and had 4 crabs hanging on tight! And yes, publix subs are crazy good!
That is awesome!
We do same way in md but we stay in a anchored boat and hand line over the sides of the boat. Kool video
That would be fun!
Just seen your video. I assume 49. Not sure if you consider the keepers or not. Great video!❤
Pubsub Boarshead Ultimate on white with mayo is my jam. N.FL here. Assuming a salt water license required? Catch limit? Size requirement?
Yeah saltwater license no limits or size restrictions though
My mother and I used to sit on the New River seawall in Ft. Lauderdale and used chicken, necks and backs that were REALLY cheap. We would always get a bucket of crabs. Times have changed with limits and sizes but there are still people catching "legals.
Legs were much more expensive than the backs and necks even back then . I was 10-11 years old and I am 76 now. You figure. BTW, can't find backs and necks in the grocery stores anymore.
Great memory