So I'm six months until the big 50. I have slowed down with the parting and been looking at more natureful things to do in life. I bought a sailboat (Tanzer 22 $900) from a young head. Then I needed a kayak to get out to it. I bought a cheapie not knowing anything about kayaking. Then I watched youtube and learned. Now I have a 2020 Hobie 360 and it's amazing. From there I learned how to kayak fish. More youtube videos taught me about crabbing. I went and bought a crab cage and all the fixings then started crabbing from the side of my sailboat. Well, last night (October 22, 2020, I was home bored surfing youtube and ran across this video. Needless to say, it was exactly what I needed. I went out and bought an old green Jon Bout so I can go crabbing like this. Maybe even start my own youtube channel. The moral of this story is, you have definitely touched a new follower and I appreciate you posting this video. If you wish to check out my new kayak and old new skiff I'm on Instagram as kikicamerena911, Thake care.
Thank you! I also have an old sailboat. You might have seen it already. It's in some of our videos. It's a Dufour Arpege 30. I learned how to sail it watching TH-cam. I love it. Hope you have lots of fun crabbing. Stay safe!
You know where I wish I was now? TANSI !!! I enjoy watching your videos. You and your wife are making some great vids! Thanks. Trying to get down there in April.
You need to get on down here and so we can finally meet! We are enjoying making the videos and hope to see New subscribers as we continue to make the videos! Stephanie is getting lots of views and subscribers on the shelling videos. I never knew how many people loved shelling. I can't wait to see the warmer weather when the Blue Crab fill the crab pots in our area. Also, one of my good bubbies just bought a 26ft Boston Whaler and we're hoping to do some offshore fishing with him this year! Hope you and the family are doing well! Hope to meet you soon!
@@SaltyReflections They are down-homey and simple. I love your videos. But the first ones have the "unpolished" uniqueness about them. Many TH-camrs lose their sincereness, when they get too many followers. They become celebrities. It goes to their heads. But most of them are not Christian...thanking the ocean, or Mother Nature, or other "gods". I love that you are Christians and give thanks and credit, to God, for all He created. I hope I haven't offended you. The fact that I continue to watch your channel, is a credit, to you, in my eyes. When we keep simple and give credit to our Maker, and He will continue to bless us.
@@a.j.dickey5167 You haven't offended me at all. When I started making TH-cam videos, I barely knew how to use a computer. I had very little experience with computers because the jobs I worked didn't require me to use a computer to do them. I just needed to work hard, have good health, and stay motivated. Stephanie had to guide me through a lot of the process of making the videos. Trust me, I've worked hard to share the videos I've shared, and I'm surprised we have as many followers as we do. I wish I could do better but I'm me and I'm proud of what I've shared. I definitely don't feel like a celebrity. There are other TH-camrs with far less videos that have way more subscribers and I'm happy for them, too. You guys have helped humble me. I appreciate the ones that come up to me and tell me they like our videos. I often wonder if they're being real with me or just joking. Stay safe and take care. I'll always give God the credit for everything in my life no matter what others think. I was given a choice and I'm thankful that I can choose to believe what I want.
@@SaltyReflections Thank you for reaching out. I do love your videos. I don't care much for fishing, crabbing or shrimping, but your videos have gotten me interesting. I love how you include LaGrand. He a delight. My youngest brother is mentally handicapped. I wish a good man, like you, would include him in activities Perhaps, you're an amateur or professional, they are perfect to me and obviously many more. We appreciate the time and effort...hours of editing, you take to make them. I still love the rough, first efforts of TH-camrs. I am glad that God is the center of your (and mine) lives. He keeps us humble. Since I haven't yet said thank you...thank you. I can't wait to see more. 🙏❤️🙏👍✝️
Ive recently moved from Maryland to Pawleys island south Carolina. Love the crabbing videos and look forward to learning more about crabbing in south Carolina. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! I'm glad you love the crabbing videos and we plan on making a lot of them this year. When this water temperature warms up will be on the crab. My buddy just bought a 26' Boston Whaler and we hope to have some videos fishing off the coast this year. We'll keep trying our best to make videos to share with others. I hope you are loving Pawleys Island S.C. Is Pawleys around Charleston? I watch another channel on TH-cam that a guy named Sam does out of Maryland! ( Outdoors In Maryland ) They crab a lot different than we do in S.C. Thank you so much for the comment and watching!
We just moved to waterfront in Edenton NC on Albemarle Sound, from Durham NC. we have caught our 1st huge blue crab off our pier post with a net !!? 2 weeks ago. Now we bought a crab pot, getting license. Thanks for your videos!!
Like always another great video I can't wait to see you guys start nailing those crabs when the weather gets good because you have great videos in there very helpful you give a lot of good points on where to place pots and how deep your fishing for crabs very helpful I can't wait to come to the coast here real soon in the future God bless you all and please keep making the videos and from the Midlands of South Carolina we will be watching
I always look forward to hearing your comments on the videos! Your comments always encourage me to keep making the videos! We were hoping to catch more blue Crab in this video for everyone to see but just like I heard another TH-cam creator say this ain't Hollywood. LOL! It takes guys like us testing the waters to show others what's going on. Thanks for the comment Tim and watching! God Bless!
Yes, the Yamaha 4hp 4stroke pushed our 14' Dura Craft around 8mph with both of us in it. We've been on at least 20 mile round trips with it. Sips gas! Thanks for the comment and watching!
enjoyed the video. I'm an amateur, why 50' of line on each trap? can I just do 15' or 20'. I'm probably not going to have but 5' or 10' of cover at low tide. Just interested. Thanks,
We were setting these out in deeper water so we added more rope than usual. We typically use about 20 ft or so in the shallower water we normally crab. Thanks for crabbing with us!
i liv in gaffney sc now but i grew up on delaware bay crabbin , i miss it so much im movin 2 north nc coast soon . your vids help get me thru til then , i liked & subscribed
Thanks man! I love crabbing. Stephanie(my wife) and we make a lot of different types of videos on the things that we love to do around the coast. I set the pots out every now and them so I can help others keep up with how the crabbing is going in our area. Another thing we love doing is shrimp trawling. If you like crabbing you'd probably find that pretty interesting as well. I think NC is the only state that let's people trawl inshore. We have a few trawling videos on our channel as well. Check them out. Trawling can be pretty rewarding. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the comment John! You're the first to vote on moving the pots out to the deeper water. We may just do that anyway to see if we can find some more crab in our area to make a video for you guys. Until then please check out some of our other crabbing videos. We have some on the channel when the weather was warmer and we were catching a good quantity of big Jimmy's. Thanks for watching!
That's awesome. We love blue crab crabbing too. We make all sorts of videos, and we love sharing what we love doing with others. We hope you enjoy our crabbing videos. We'll be back out crabbing with you all soon. Thanks for joining us.
It is a 14 ft DuraCraft. We certainly got a lot of use out of it. Now my nephew & his family are putting it to good use! Thanks for watching & hope you have a great weekend!
I just found your channel & watched your crab 🦀 video. I sure did enjoy it & love to see local waterman out enjoying the water. I grew up crabbing with my father & brother on the Chesapeake Bay & still enjoy it today. Plan on taking my kids out this season in our little Boston Whaler & drop some pots! I just subbed your channel & looking forward to seeing more. I just started my Bbq Channel & love it so far! Take care brother, Parker
Awesome. Very glad you found us and glad to have you as part of our TH-cam Family! Crabbing is a great family activity - we have spent a lot of hours out on the water with our boys as they were growing up and we are very thankful and feel blessed to now be able to share some time out on the water with our grandkids too. Kids love being out on the water as much as we do. We both started out with our older generations doing these sorts of things too and getting out there definitely brings back a lot of sweet reflections on those times for us. Enjoy your kids and take them out soon! Thanks for watching and commenting. 🐚💙 We subbed to your channel as well! 😉
Yeah man, your dad and I are old class mates. You better watch out for that fella. LOL! Just joking. He's a good old country boy, just like me. 😆 Stay safe and God bless!
I was a commercial crabber on the Eastern Shore of Virginia . I worked on the water since I was 12. I really like your videos. My dad use to buy crabs down there. Looks just like a place we've worked. Keep the videos coming.
Thank you. We're recreational crabbers. Crabbing is one of the things we love doing out on the water. What's the biggest blue crab you've caught in Virginia? In the last couple of years I've been trying to keep up with the biggest we've caught. Caught a couple 7" ers here. Not nearly as big as some I've seen others catching further north.
@@SaltyReflections Well. Where I've crabbed. The biggest I've caught was 7 3/4 . But that's rare. They have a great salty taste though. We're lucky though. We have the Chesapeake Bay on oneside and the Seaside one the other. About 4 miles from one side to the next. What's the biggest u guys have caught?
Im in Florida just getting started. I reallyn appreciate the video - good job. I'm trying to decide wether to buy some traps like you've got or make my own.
I use whole frozen bunker it' lasts longer when its frozen and the crabs don't care. In addition I also put one or two right in the cage itself. So I have two in the center basket and one or two in the cage itself. Had 2 of those cages right behind my boat here in NJ. We had so many every year we had to throw back keepers. I wish I could post pics to show the full cages and all the cool things I've had in there like turtles, huge eels, flounder and other stuff. Love crabbing keep posting them.
Sounds awesome! Feel free to share pics with us & other Saltaholics on our Facebook Group! Link in video description. We would enjoy them! Thanks for sharing!
How's the blue crab to eat? I've never tried one. So are these soft shelled. We have Dungeness crabs here in Oregon , love them. So how do you cook those blues? Enjoyed your video Thanks Dan / "aka Big Daddy"
The blue crabs are great. We clean and steam ours with our favorite seasoning. (Old Bay) The blue crabs don't have as much meat as some of the other species, but people love the sweet taste of their meat. A little melted butter with Old Bay sprinkled across the top is great for dipping.
I hatte it when people take the femals if they do 58,000 babies, are taken from the father crabing futher, I was in new jersery and they heard I liked crab and have me 6 all small females, I ate them can't waste them. All where ileagle. You are a good man. We had blue crab in briney creeks in my back yard with specled trout, cought aligater gar, no taps. Chicken leg on string, bring in and net on pole behind net the crab, fish, that followed eat yummy. I had mud crab, dunganes, crab.
You have a nice little jon boat there. Almost kind of looks like mine. Great video brother. You know I did always wonder why the price of crabs fluctuates. I guess it makes sense. My wife is from MD and she absolutely loves crabs. Got to enjoy a good forty minutes of the vid. Thank you guys for sharing. See you again soon.
Thanks for watching and commenting. But that's a question for Oliver (Steph here at the moment). 😂🤣. If I tied it - it would either come right back undone or never ever ever come off! 🤦 I'll make sure he lets you know though! 😁 #jerririggedknot 🤷
Watching your video, from Wilmington Delaware, I’m enjoying you and your wife, seems as if you’all are very family oriented; I love crabs but scared to death of boats and water: keep doing what you are doing 👍
Thanks for the encouragement and thanks for watching in Delaware! Our waters will be loaded with keeper Blue Crabs soon. There's plenty of them here now but they're small. I can't wait!
Love that you still cal them dolphin. I don’t know when the name changed. Probably when people thought we were catching Flipper. For weights on my traps I use a plastic coated dumbbell. Works well especially from a kayak or swimming the traps in from the beach.
Here in Florida we are aloud to put out Recreational 5 pots per person . I agree with not wanting to intrude on the Commercial Crabbers but do they do they do the same .
Thanks for the comment & for watching. I see what you mean, you question situations. We try to explain how things that have happened to us can happen naturally without other human interference but really we don't know. It does raise the question❓ We would like to hope everyone would respect others but we all know the world we live in. We can only do our own part, right!?
We use to camp at Hunting Island several times a year. Our family has lots of great memories of our time spent there. Thanks for the comment and watching!
Thank you so much for the comment! There are plenty of places to crab from the shore here! It's so easy to catch Blue Crab here during the warmer months and plenty of public docks also for everyone to use. In the Summer when you're in the right spots here it's even hard to fish without Blue Crab taking your bait or you may even reel them in while there holding on to your bait! We have put crab pots off of docks and within an hour have 15 or more crab in them. That's on a really good day. Again, thanks for the comment and watching! If you know of others that like Crabbing or other things on the water ask them to check our channel out! We really appreciate any type of help with the channel. We will try to continue to improve the channel as best we can! 🙂
I live in central Florida have been thinking of getting a few traps (we are allowed 5)to toss in the morning into waist deep water off a pier or sea wall in hopes of getting 4-5 keepers after enjoying the beach for the day I have heard summer is best time because they go closer to shore when water is warmer enjoy watching your videos
Yeeeessss! You definitely should, you will enjoy it! I bet you'll get more than 4-5 keepers probably in each pot most days. & yes they are more plentiful in our area during the warm months too. Glad you are enjoying the videos. Welcome to our TH-cam Family, very glad to have you! Thank you for watching and commenting.
My only concern is the tide carrying the traps away But I am doing a short soak so I could just watch the tide and plan accordingly or try a inter coastal river that does not have as much tide action crystal river is supposed to be loaded with blue crab
@@donaldferguson2759 When we put ours off of a pier, we usually tie it on to the pier itself so we won't have to worry about it moving away from that area by the tide. Make sure to check your local regulations to know where you can legally do so and it attaching to a public structure is permitted. But also we have rebar on the bottom of our traps which is used to weigh them down so even when they are not attached to a structure like a pier or dock, they will not be moved by the tide much, if at all. Also you want to make sure you have enough rope attached as well, cause if the trap isn't attached to any structure and the tide does happen to move them you want the rope to be long enough that if it does get moved into deeper water you'll still be able to find it. Or if it is attached to a dock, you want to make sure of course that the rope is long enough for the trap to sit on the bottom. Wherever you purchase your crab pots/traps from will most likely have an option to buy the ones with or without rebar attached, rope and bouy and all or just plain trap and you outfit it with the rest yourself but the same business will have everything you need. GOOD LUCK! Keep us informed on how it goes!
@@donaldferguson2759 Cool area! We visited Crystal River last year just for the day as we were passing through - we stopped to see the manatees of course! The area we visited was beautiful. We'd like to come back and visit again and see more of that area.
Crystal River is beautiful I’ve only been a few times I also know a few places that are accessible from a kayak that I might try as I don’t have a motorboat right now either way will probably wait until June or July
Awesome! We like to watch all kinds of crabbing too! 🦀 Yes it is salt water, we are in Jenkins Creek, a river approximately 7-8 miles just off of the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of South Carolina. Thanks so much for watching and commenting! 🦀🦀
Stab them carcasses to chum flavor. Around here we have so many variety of fish. I usually slice them head to tail.. just getting the most oil in the water to chum them in. We have squid and flounder in abundance .Chum salmon is the best! Skin them out and smoke fillets. The skin will ooze oil even after you skin them out. Then they are full of eggs too. Its a very good bait . I have crabbed for over 30 yrs. and use everything from mussels to clam to oysters. Everything works good but chum salmon and eggs with squid works best.
Go Gamecocks. I’m from Charleston originally. Grew up fishing, shrimping and crabbing. Live in Virginia Beach now and do a little crabbing from my stand up paddle board.
We have been to Charleston quit a few times. People from all over the world go to see the beauty of all the history there. Thanks for the comment and watching! I would love to see how you crab off of a paddle board! That has to take some great paddle boarding skills.
Salty Reflections I’ll be glad to send you some photos of my rig. What’s the best way to do that. Also, I’m only getting 4-5 crabs per pot. Baiting with bunker and chicken. Crabbing a 6ft deep creek off the Chesapeake bay in Virginia Beach. 4 miles inland from the mouth of the Bay. Any suggestions?
@@lifelived9019 Sorry just saw this message from a long time ago... join us at facebook.com/groups/saltyreflections/ We love to have other share their photos & experiences with those of us with similar interests! 🦀🍩
Yes, we love the low country too. The wildlife is awesome here but I have only seen one or two gators. Never seen one while crabbing. Really appreciate you taking the time to comment and thanks for watching!
Great video! Are you legally able to use a trotline there? We can put 2 of those commercial style pots off our dock if we have one here in Maryland. We have a live box that we put crabs from the pots in all week and usually by Saturday we have a nice bushel or more saved up to cook up.
Yes, I have found out we can crab with a trotline in SC but you never see anyone using that method here. We got the license last year and tried it. Lost the audio to the video. SUCKS! Sounds like you have a great method of getting a tasty meal. Crab on brother! We hope to make another trotline crabbing video in our area this year.
@@SaltyReflections yeah we would like that. We went out fishing the jetties in the Charleston harbor last week. Wasn’t bitting that well but had a great time. Just purchased a new boat so I would love to get up with y’all to help me navigate some areas to fish in Beaufort
Much to my surprise we are allowed to use pots in NJ. I haven't been crabbing in years but have done some trotline and hand line crabbing. Did you make your own trap? I was surprised at some of the prices
No we don't make our own traps since we are just recreational crabbers, we have bought the ones we have. But we know some folks that were commercial crabbers a long time ago & they use to make their own. But yeah they are expensive to buy, you're right! ✅🤑 We have hand lined & used drop baskets often too, really a fun way to crab! 🦀
I use to crab commercialy and ive noticed you have a lot of line on the traps . Thats good , but have you thought about adding a small weight 8-12' below the float so that the line dont float wild ? With the weight keeping the line straight below the float there's a less chance of another vessel getting wrapped up in the line and that vessel cutting your line and the trap is lost . Love the channel, ive subscribed and fish on man
Enjoyed watching a local recreational crabber! We just got our first crab trap, and are going to use some of your tips! Yes, we subscribed! Put em out in deeper water, and tell us how deep!
I can't really say when the best time of day is best for catching Blue Crabbing. I think it has more to do with time of year and location of crabbing grounds.
I live in Texas and our season is all year round we can use carb traps recreational and we have to have them documented and the carbs have to be five inches long from point to point and no females with eggs
I subscribed for awhile now and really enjoy everything you all videos. I would be interested if he would go out further and deeper in crapping adventures. I hope more people will subscribe. I believe they would enjoy the videos as much as I do.
Wow amazing video thanks for sharing! I'm looking at this summer to take my little family to crabbing. Any information about your crab traps I want to order it. Thanks in advance brother keep it up
You can buy crap traps and crab baskets out of Walmart or lots of local shops around the coast! Some people just tie crab bait on strings and use dip nets to catch crab. Thanks for watching!
I don't think this four horse motor would do it but they do make small trawl nets. I saw a guy using a 16' aluminum boat with a 40 horse. Don't know what size net he was pulling.
I’m a commercial crabber from Maryland and we have 1200 traps we fish we fish 2 day sets 600 a day every day our seasons from april 1st to December 5th I just like see how people crab in other states
Wow! You guys are running a lot of pots. My hate's off to you brother. I know you guys work hard. No season for commercial crabbers in S.C. Some of my family was commercial crabbing a few years back. So, I went with them a few day during the good part of the year. We were getting 25 to 30 bushels a day. They were pulling around 200 pots a day. Thanks for watching!
I really enjoy your videos on the channel I especially like seeing you both doing it together at whatever you all do
Thanks 👍Teamwork makes the dream work.
I love your videos and the long soft and slow way you keep us informed! Thank you both!!
LOL! Thanks for watching!
I like the way you think and the way you are how honest you are
Thank you so much!
So I'm six months until the big 50. I have slowed down with the parting and been looking at more natureful things to do in life. I bought a sailboat (Tanzer 22 $900) from a young head. Then I needed a kayak to get out to it. I bought a cheapie not knowing anything about kayaking. Then I watched youtube and learned. Now I have a 2020 Hobie 360 and it's amazing. From there I learned how to kayak fish. More youtube videos taught me about crabbing. I went and bought a crab cage and all the fixings then started crabbing from the side of my sailboat. Well, last night (October 22, 2020, I was home bored surfing youtube and ran across this video. Needless to say, it was exactly what I needed. I went out and bought an old green Jon Bout so I can go crabbing like this. Maybe even start my own youtube channel. The moral of this story is, you have definitely touched a new follower and I appreciate you posting this video. If you wish to check out my new kayak and old new skiff I'm on Instagram as kikicamerena911, Thake care.
Thank you! I also have an old sailboat. You might have seen it already. It's in some of our videos. It's a Dufour Arpege 30. I learned how to sail it watching TH-cam. I love it. Hope you have lots of fun crabbing. Stay safe!
Well, all I can say is stay away from videos about super luxury yachts.
You know where I wish I was now?
TANSI !!! I enjoy watching your videos. You and your wife are making some great vids! Thanks. Trying to get down there in April.
You need to get on down here and so we can finally meet! We are enjoying making the videos and hope to see New subscribers as we continue to make the videos! Stephanie is getting lots of views and subscribers on the shelling videos. I never knew how many people loved shelling. I can't wait to see the warmer weather when the Blue Crab fill the crab pots in our area. Also, one of my good bubbies just bought a 26ft Boston Whaler and we're hoping to do some offshore fishing with him this year! Hope you and the family are doing well! Hope to meet you soon!
Really fun to get to watch the video live with yall! I think we should do it that way more often! I love the live chat feature!
Maybe as the channel continues to grow we'll have more people to join in! Glad you enjoyed it! Love you!
I LOVE the older videos. Love them all, but the older ones are special to me
What makes you like them the most?
@@SaltyReflections
They are down-homey and simple. I love your videos. But the first ones have the "unpolished" uniqueness about them.
Many TH-camrs lose their sincereness, when they get too many followers. They become celebrities. It goes to their heads. But most of them are not Christian...thanking the ocean, or Mother Nature, or other "gods".
I love that you are Christians and give thanks and credit, to God, for all He created.
I hope I haven't offended you. The fact that I continue to watch your channel, is a credit, to you, in my eyes.
When we keep simple and give credit to our Maker, and He will continue to bless us.
@@a.j.dickey5167 You haven't offended me at all. When I started making TH-cam videos, I barely knew how to use a computer. I had very little experience with computers because the jobs I worked didn't require me to use a computer to do them. I just needed to work hard, have good health, and stay motivated. Stephanie had to guide me through a lot of the process of making the videos. Trust me, I've worked hard to share the videos I've shared, and I'm surprised we have as many followers as we do. I wish I could do better but I'm me and I'm proud of what I've shared. I definitely don't feel like a celebrity. There are other TH-camrs with far less videos that have way more subscribers and I'm happy for them, too. You guys have helped humble me. I appreciate the ones that come up to me and tell me they like our videos. I often wonder if they're being real with me or just joking. Stay safe and take care. I'll always give God the credit for everything in my life no matter what others think. I was given a choice and I'm thankful that I can choose to believe what I want.
@@SaltyReflections
Thank you for reaching out. I do love your videos. I don't care much for fishing, crabbing or shrimping, but your videos have gotten me interesting. I love how you include LaGrand. He a delight. My youngest brother is mentally handicapped. I wish a good man, like you, would include him in activities
Perhaps, you're an amateur or professional, they are perfect to me and obviously many more. We appreciate the time and effort...hours of editing, you take to make them.
I still love the rough, first efforts of TH-camrs.
I am glad that God is the center of your (and mine) lives. He keeps us humble.
Since I haven't yet said thank you...thank you. I can't wait to see more.
🙏❤️🙏👍✝️
@@a.j.dickey5167 There's still good people in this big world.
Love Oliver and Stephanie’s crabbing videos. Never know what you are going to get.🙏🏻🦀🦀
LOL! We don't ever know what we're going to catch either.
i just started watching ya'll awesome i myself an my buddy are going into shrimping ourselves.
I wish you guys the best of luck. Shrimping ain't easy unless you're skilled.
@@SaltyReflections yeah we're both truck drivers an hanging up the keys in few months an going shrimping
Ive recently moved from Maryland to Pawleys island south Carolina. Love the crabbing videos and look forward to learning more about crabbing in south Carolina. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! I'm glad you love the crabbing videos and we plan on making a lot of them this year. When this water temperature warms up will be on the crab. My buddy just bought a 26' Boston Whaler and we hope to have some videos fishing off the coast this year. We'll keep trying our best to make videos to share with others. I hope you are loving Pawleys Island S.C. Is Pawleys around Charleston? I watch another channel on TH-cam that a guy named Sam does out of Maryland! ( Outdoors In Maryland ) They crab a lot different than we do in S.C. Thank you so much for the comment and watching!
We just moved to waterfront in Edenton NC on Albemarle Sound, from Durham NC. we have caught our 1st huge blue crab off our pier post with a net !!? 2 weeks ago. Now we bought a crab pot, getting license. Thanks for your videos!!
Enjoy your new life by the water. Now, you'll be able to eat fresh seafood all the time.
Lots of love from far Eastern Kentucky. Love the blue crabs.
Thanks 🦀❤️
I love to see more of all your videos
Thanks.
Pls continue with the crab videos. I know zero about crabbing but it is still interesting.🙏🏻🤟
Will do. Thank you!
I grew up in Beaufort and I was stationed there in the Marine Corps. Miss that place a lot. My mom opened up China Town in the mid 90s.
Beaufort is a beautiful place & it has grown exponentially in the last decade. Glad to bring you back for a few moments! 👍😁
Enjoyed your crabbing lesson and just being out on the water...beautiful day in SC
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
Like always another great video I can't wait to see you guys start nailing those crabs when the weather gets good because you have great videos in there very helpful you give a lot of good points on where to place pots and how deep your fishing for crabs very helpful I can't wait to come to the coast here real soon in the future God bless you all and please keep making the videos and from the Midlands of South Carolina we will be watching
I always look forward to hearing your comments on the videos! Your comments always encourage me to keep making the videos! We were hoping to catch more blue Crab in this video for everyone to see but just like I heard another TH-cam creator say this ain't Hollywood. LOL! It takes guys like us testing the waters to show others what's going on. Thanks for the comment Tim and watching! God Bless!
i am impressed by how well that 4 hp pushes that boat with 2 adults in it.
Yes, the Yamaha 4hp 4stroke pushed our 14' Dura Craft around 8mph with both of us in it. We've been on at least 20 mile round trips with it. Sips gas! Thanks for the comment and watching!
Haven't heard a SC tidewater accent in a while, enjoyed it.
I'm SC born and raised.
Awesome video! Thanks!
Thank you! We love crabbing! Thanks for the comment and watching!
That's a great little runabout.
Yes, thanks.
enjoyed the video. I'm an amateur, why 50' of line on each trap? can I just do 15' or 20'. I'm probably not going to have but 5' or 10' of cover at low tide. Just interested. Thanks,
We were setting these out in deeper water so we added more rope than usual. We typically use about 20 ft or so in the shallower water we normally crab. Thanks for crabbing with us!
Great video, thanks for making it!
Much appreciated.
That 4hp motor moves right along.
It was a great little motor.
i liv in gaffney sc now but i grew up on delaware bay crabbin , i miss it so much im movin 2 north nc coast soon . your vids help get me thru til then , i liked & subscribed
Thanks man! I love crabbing. Stephanie(my wife) and we make a lot of different types of videos on the things that we love to do around the coast. I set the pots out every now and them so I can help others keep up with how the crabbing is going in our area. Another thing we love doing is shrimp trawling. If you like crabbing you'd probably find that pretty interesting as well. I think NC is the only state that let's people trawl inshore. We have a few trawling videos on our channel as well. Check them out. Trawling can be pretty rewarding. Thanks for watching!
Really enjoyed the video. I vote for moving the pots out deeper. Never get tired of the crabbing videos (catch and/or cook).
Thanks for the comment John! You're the first to vote on moving the pots out to the deeper water. We may just do that anyway to see if we can find some more crab in our area to make a video for you guys. Until then please check out some of our other crabbing videos. We have some on the channel when the weather was warmer and we were catching a good quantity of big Jimmy's. Thanks for watching!
I've got the pots back in deeper water. Hope to have another video soon.
@@SaltyReflections sounds great. I'm really looking forward to it. Hoping for a bunch of keepers.
Awesome stuff y'all. Love it
Thanks for crabbing with us! 🦀🦀
That looks fun and relaxing!
It is! We love crabbing! Thanks for the comment and watching!
You got me wanting to go crabbing now
We love it!
Love crabbing been going to the same spot in keansburg NJ for 50 years. Did great this year large size males..
That's awesome. We love blue crab crabbing too. We make all sorts of videos, and we love sharing what we love doing with others. We hope you enjoy our crabbing videos. We'll be back out crabbing with you all soon. Thanks for joining us.
ok that's the Tim Riley pot lets see how it does lol....thanks for the shout out
Thank you for watching our videos! We appreciate it!
Love your crabbing videos keep them coming
Thank you! We going to try!
I enjoyed the ride back out.
Thanks for coming along!
Off-shore fishing sounds like fun!!
Thanks for the comment! We have a few offshore fishing videos were we went 50 to 70 miles out with some of our friends fishing,
What size/model is that jon boat? Looks like perfect size for my wife and I.
It is a 14 ft DuraCraft. We certainly got a lot of use out of it. Now my nephew & his family are putting it to good use! Thanks for watching & hope you have a great weekend!
Thanks for sharing the information, I appreciate the lesson.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
I just found your channel & watched your crab 🦀 video. I sure did enjoy it & love to see local waterman out enjoying the water. I grew up crabbing with my father & brother on the Chesapeake Bay & still enjoy it today. Plan on taking my kids out this season in our little Boston Whaler & drop some pots! I just subbed your channel & looking forward to seeing more. I just started my Bbq Channel & love it so far! Take care brother, Parker
Awesome. Very glad you found us and glad to have you as part of our TH-cam Family! Crabbing is a great family activity - we have spent a lot of hours out on the water with our boys as they were growing up and we are very thankful and feel blessed to now be able to share some time out on the water with our grandkids too. Kids love being out on the water as much as we do. We both started out with our older generations doing these sorts of things too and getting out there definitely brings back a lot of sweet reflections on those times for us. Enjoy your kids and take them out soon! Thanks for watching and commenting. 🐚💙 We subbed to your channel as well! 😉
jackpot the Tim Riley pot snags a keeper....lol great video
It was our lucky pot! LoL!
I’ve been watching your videos for about a week now and I had no idea that you know me and my father Fleming
Yeah man, your dad and I are old class mates. You better watch out for that fella. LOL! Just joking. He's a good old country boy, just like me. 😆 Stay safe and God bless!
I was a commercial crabber on the Eastern Shore of Virginia . I worked on the water since I was 12. I really like your videos. My dad use to buy crabs down there. Looks just like a place we've worked. Keep the videos coming.
Thank you. We're recreational crabbers. Crabbing is one of the things we love doing out on the water. What's the biggest blue crab you've caught in Virginia? In the last couple of years I've been trying to keep up with the biggest we've caught. Caught a couple 7" ers here. Not nearly as big as some I've seen others catching further north.
@@SaltyReflections Well. Where I've crabbed. The biggest I've caught was 7 3/4 . But that's rare. They have a great salty taste though. We're lucky though. We have the Chesapeake Bay on oneside and the Seaside one the other. About 4 miles from one side to the next. What's the biggest u guys have caught?
We delt with a guy down there to buy gloves and supplies. Up here we call him glove man. He travels around selling waterman supplies
@@williamparks8626 We buy our supplies from a family owned business here called Beaufort Marine Supply.
Im in Florida just getting started. I reallyn appreciate the video - good job. I'm trying to decide wether to buy some traps like you've got or make my own.
Glad you enjoyed the video! I think you could make your own traps.
Hello - You have a great channel, I really like how you relate to (us) viewers. Keep up the great vids
Thank you! We appreciate you watching!
I found some good crabs. Heading towards palmetto bluff. If you're coming from Old Town Bluffton.
Enjoy! 😋🦀
I use whole frozen bunker it' lasts longer when its frozen and the crabs don't care. In addition I also put one or two right in the cage itself. So I have two in the center basket and one or two in the cage itself. Had 2 of those cages right behind my boat here in NJ. We had so many every year we had to throw back keepers. I wish I could post pics to show the full cages and all the cool things I've had in there like turtles, huge eels, flounder and other stuff. Love crabbing keep posting them.
Sounds awesome! Feel free to share pics with us & other Saltaholics on our Facebook Group! Link in video description. We would enjoy them! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Stephanie,I love to go out on the water.Too with my friend doing crabbing and shrimping here in Washington.
Thanks for joining us for the adventure!
Nice backwaters man. New sub and Ima binge watch all your videos! 👊🎣
Awesome thank you!
The Kingfisher is my favorite bird, always alone and near the water, and constantly fishing.
We see lots of Kingfishers in our area during the colder months. Beautiful birds!
I surely miss being on the water and craving. Like ya'lls videos
We love being on the water. What keeps you from getting out the water?
Awesome video thanks for taking us along
Glad you enjoyed it! Do you do any crabbing? Thanks for the comment and watching!
How's the blue crab to eat? I've never tried one. So are these soft shelled. We have Dungeness crabs here in Oregon , love them. So how do you cook those blues? Enjoyed your video
Thanks
Dan / "aka Big Daddy"
The blue crabs are great. We clean and steam ours with our favorite seasoning. (Old Bay) The blue crabs don't have as much meat as some of the other species, but people love the sweet taste of their meat. A little melted butter with Old Bay sprinkled across the top is great for dipping.
Stephaine has got an easy job sitting up there riding along 😂.
I don't want her working too hard.😁
I enjoy watching it keep up the great videos
Thank you!
Great video ! Thanks
Thanks
Blue crabbing is awesome. Great video and keep it up guys, just subbed 🙏🏼
Thank you!
I hatte it when people take the femals if they do 58,000 babies, are taken from the father crabing futher, I was in new jersery and they heard I liked crab and have me 6 all small females, I ate them can't waste them. All where ileagle. You are a good man. We had blue crab in briney creeks in my back yard with specled trout, cought aligater gar, no taps. Chicken leg on string, bring in and net on pole behind net the crab, fish, that followed eat yummy. I had mud crab, dunganes, crab.
thanks good video..Bennetts Creek VA
Thanks for the comment and watching in VA.
You have a nice little jon boat there. Almost kind of looks like mine. Great video brother. You know I did always wonder why the price of crabs fluctuates. I guess it makes sense. My wife is from MD and she absolutely loves crabs. Got to enjoy a good forty minutes of the vid. Thank you guys for sharing. See you again soon.
Thanks for watching!
I miss y’all so much
will be moving to Bluffton/HHI summer 2023 and can't wait to crab!
Awesome! Our local waters are loaded with crab.
Love this so much thank you so much God bless you
One of our favorite activities! Thanks for watching! God Bless you as well!
I feel like I went to crab trapping school with you, good video thanks.
LoL 😂 Thanks man. I love crabbing!
Question, wat type of knot do you tie to your trap
Thanks for watching and commenting. But that's a question for Oliver (Steph here at the moment). 😂🤣. If I tied it - it would either come right back undone or never ever ever come off! 🤦 I'll make sure he lets you know though! 😁 #jerririggedknot 🤷
Watching your video, from Wilmington Delaware, I’m enjoying you and your wife, seems as if you’all are very family oriented; I love crabs but scared to death of boats and water: keep doing what you are doing 👍
Thanks for the encouragement and thanks for watching in Delaware! Our waters will be loaded with keeper Blue Crabs soon. There's plenty of them here now but they're small. I can't wait!
i love these videos
Thanks for joining us for the adventure!
Love that you still cal them dolphin. I don’t know when the name changed. Probably when people thought we were catching Flipper. For weights on my traps I use a plastic coated dumbbell. Works well especially from a kayak or swimming the traps in from the beach.
LOL! That sounds right, we don't want anyone thinking we're crazy. Great idea using the dumbbell, it should last a long time with the coating on it.
Here in Florida we are aloud to put out Recreational 5 pots per person . I agree with not wanting to intrude on the Commercial Crabbers but do they do they do the same .
Thanks for the comment & for watching. I see what you mean, you question situations. We try to explain how things that have happened to us can happen naturally without other human interference but really we don't know. It does raise the question❓ We would like to hope everyone would respect others but we all know the world we live in. We can only do our own part, right!?
Love this video
Thank you for the comment and watching! Glad you enjoyed!
Excellent stuff bro
Thank you! I try.
Love going to Hunting Island State park. Some of the better crabbing I have had.
We use to camp at Hunting Island several times a year. Our family has lots of great memories of our time spent there. Thanks for the comment and watching!
that 4.4 is a beast!
YESSIR! For sure.
I love you and Stephanie’s videos I live in pa but I crab in nj
I love it. Are there places to crab from shore nearby your crabbing spots
Thank you so much for the comment! There are plenty of places to crab from the shore here! It's so easy to catch Blue Crab here during the warmer months and plenty of public docks also for everyone to use. In the Summer when you're in the right spots here it's even hard to fish without Blue Crab taking your bait or you may even reel them in while there holding on to your bait! We have put crab pots off of docks and within an hour have 15 or more crab in them. That's on a really good day. Again, thanks for the comment and watching! If you know of others that like Crabbing or other things on the water ask them to check our channel out! We really appreciate any type of help with the channel. We will try to continue to improve the channel as best we can! 🙂
I miss Beaufort South Carolina I used to go crabbing all the time with my mom when we lived there rip mom
Hold on to those memories. Thanks for watching!
I live in central Florida have been thinking of getting a few traps (we are allowed 5)to toss in the morning into waist deep water off a pier or sea wall in hopes of getting 4-5 keepers after enjoying the beach for the day I have heard summer is best time because they go closer to shore when water is warmer enjoy watching your videos
Yeeeessss! You definitely should, you will enjoy it! I bet you'll get more than 4-5 keepers probably in each pot most days. & yes they are more plentiful in our area during the warm months too. Glad you are enjoying the videos. Welcome to our TH-cam Family, very glad to have you! Thank you for watching and commenting.
My only concern is the tide carrying the traps away But I am doing a short soak so I could just watch the tide and plan accordingly or try a inter coastal river that does not have as much tide action crystal river is supposed to be loaded with blue crab
@@donaldferguson2759 When we put ours off of a pier, we usually tie it on to the pier itself so we won't have to worry about it moving away from that area by the tide. Make sure to check your local regulations to know where you can legally do so and it attaching to a public structure is permitted. But also we have rebar on the bottom of our traps which is used to weigh them down so even when they are not attached to a structure like a pier or dock, they will not be moved by the tide much, if at all. Also you want to make sure you have enough rope attached as well, cause if the trap isn't attached to any structure and the tide does happen to move them you want the rope to be long enough that if it does get moved into deeper water you'll still be able to find it. Or if it is attached to a dock, you want to make sure of course that the rope is long enough for the trap to sit on the bottom. Wherever you purchase your crab pots/traps from will most likely have an option to buy the ones with or without rebar attached, rope and bouy and all or just plain trap and you outfit it with the rest yourself but the same business will have everything you need. GOOD LUCK! Keep us informed on how it goes!
@@donaldferguson2759 Cool area! We visited Crystal River last year just for the day as we were passing through - we stopped to see the manatees of course! The area we visited was beautiful. We'd like to come back and visit again and see more of that area.
Crystal River is beautiful I’ve only been a few times I also know a few places that are accessible from a kayak that I might try as I don’t have a motorboat right now either way will probably wait until June or July
I love crabing all over the world. Like crab catfish. IS that briney water.
Awesome! We like to watch all kinds of crabbing too! 🦀 Yes it is salt water, we are in Jenkins Creek, a river approximately 7-8 miles just off of the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of South Carolina. Thanks so much for watching and commenting! 🦀🦀
Deep water BIG FISH.. nice
😂! Thanks for watching!
Love the content
Thank you! We're so glad you liked it. We really appreciate your comment and thank you for watching!
Stab them carcasses to chum flavor. Around here we have so many variety of fish. I usually slice them head to tail.. just getting the most oil in the water to chum them in. We have squid and flounder in abundance .Chum salmon is the best! Skin them out and smoke fillets. The skin will ooze oil even after you skin them out. Then they are full of eggs too. Its a very good bait . I have crabbed for over 30 yrs. and use everything from mussels to clam to oysters. Everything works good but chum salmon and eggs with squid works best.
Thanks for the info. We catch little small squid here, we'll have to try them sometime. 👍
Go Gamecocks. I’m from Charleston originally. Grew up fishing, shrimping and crabbing. Live in Virginia Beach now and do a little crabbing from my stand up paddle board.
We have been to Charleston quit a few times. People from all over the world go to see the beauty of all the history there. Thanks for the comment and watching! I would love to see how you crab off of a paddle board! That has to take some great paddle boarding skills.
Salty Reflections I’ll be glad to send you some photos of my rig. What’s the best way to do that. Also, I’m only getting 4-5 crabs per pot. Baiting with bunker and chicken. Crabbing a 6ft deep creek off the Chesapeake bay in Virginia Beach. 4 miles inland from the mouth of the Bay. Any suggestions?
@@lifelived9019 Sorry just saw this message from a long time ago... join us at facebook.com/groups/saltyreflections/ We love to have other share their photos & experiences with those of us with similar interests! 🦀🍩
Love low country! Vacationed there many times. Ever see any gators out there when you’re crabbin?
Yes, we love the low country too. The wildlife is awesome here but I have only seen one or two gators. Never seen one while crabbing. Really appreciate you taking the time to comment and thanks for watching!
Great video! Are you legally able to use a trotline there? We can put 2 of those commercial style pots off our dock if we have one here in Maryland. We have a live box that we put crabs from the pots in all week and usually by Saturday we have a nice bushel or more saved up to cook up.
Yes, I have found out we can crab with a trotline in SC but you never see anyone using that method here. We got the license last year and tried it. Lost the audio to the video. SUCKS! Sounds like you have a great method of getting a tasty meal. Crab on brother! We hope to make another trotline crabbing video in our area this year.
Awesome Fam.
Thanks, man! & Welcome to our TH-cam family! 😃
Hope yall are doing well. Yall will have to come fishing with us one day.
@@SaltyReflections yeah we would like that. We went out fishing the jetties in the Charleston harbor last week. Wasn’t bitting that well but had a great time. Just purchased a new boat so I would love to get up with y’all to help me navigate some areas to fish in Beaufort
I’m your new friend and subscriber Brother.watching from Washington state
Thanks for subscribing! Hope to have you join for many future adventures!
Much to my surprise we are allowed to use pots in NJ. I haven't been crabbing in years but have done some trotline and hand line crabbing. Did you make your own trap? I was surprised at some of the prices
No we don't make our own traps since we are just recreational crabbers, we have bought the ones we have. But we know some folks that were commercial crabbers a long time ago & they use to make their own. But yeah they are expensive to buy, you're right! ✅🤑 We have hand lined & used drop baskets often too, really a fun way to crab! 🦀
I use to crab commercialy and ive noticed you have a lot of line on the traps . Thats good , but have you thought about adding a small weight 8-12' below the float so that the line dont float wild ? With the weight keeping the line straight below the float there's a less chance of another vessel getting wrapped up in the line and that vessel cutting your line and the trap is lost . Love the channel, ive subscribed and fish on man
Thanks. I've never thought of using a weight to hold the line down. The rope we use most of the time on our crab pots isn't supposed to float.
Hell yea she got the view
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GOOD!! THANKS...
Thanks so much for watching!
Enjoyed watching a local recreational crabber! We just got our first crab trap, and are going to use some of your tips!
Yes, we subscribed! Put em out in deeper water, and tell us how deep!
Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoy all of our crabbing videos and hope you enjoy crabbing!
What's the best time of day to catch blue crabs ?
I can't really say when the best time of day is best for catching Blue Crabbing. I think it has more to do with time of year and location of crabbing grounds.
With the metal around the bottom of your traps do you ever get hot pots
Not to sure about the question.
@@SaltyReflections it's where the metal rubs into the sand whenever you use rebar and it creates like static electricity and it makes the pot hot
@@lesterwolfe4266 Not that we've ever noticed we haven't ever had this happen, thanks for the info though.
Please let us know the time of year!
Will do. It is listed next to title.
I live in Texas and our season is all year round we can use carb traps recreational and we have to have them documented and the carbs have to be five inches long from point to point and no females with eggs
How's the crabbing this year for you guys?
Great video on crabbing new sub and I am enjoying your channel .
Thank you! Enjoy!
I subscribed for awhile now and really enjoy everything you all videos. I would be interested if he would go out further and deeper in crapping adventures. I hope more people will subscribe. I believe they would enjoy the videos as much as I do.
The crab are back in the shallow marsh creeks now. So, let's see what we catch!
Wow amazing video thanks for sharing! I'm looking at this summer to take my little family to crabbing. Any information about your crab traps I want to order it. Thanks in advance brother keep it up
You can buy crap traps and crab baskets out of Walmart or lots of local shops around the coast! Some people just tie crab bait on strings and use dip nets to catch crab. Thanks for watching!
Do you have tags on your crab pots? Do you have GPS to find your traps ?
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Not a good crab day but I really enjoyed watching how y'all do it.
The crabs weren't cooperating. LOL! We still made the best out of our trip.
I just subscribed and liked. Nicely done!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Salty Reflections you’re welcome. Feel free to check out my channel if you want to also.
@@TheReefRobber will do.
Could you pull a small shrimp trawl with a boat and motor like the one you use in this video?
I don't think this four horse motor would do it but they do make small trawl nets. I saw a guy using a 16' aluminum boat with a 40 horse. Don't know what size net he was pulling.
Great vid and Go GAMECOCKS!
Thanks man! I had to wear the hat and shirt! LOL! But maybe that's why I had such bad luck????
I’m a commercial crabber from Maryland and we have 1200 traps we fish we fish 2 day sets 600 a day every day our seasons from april 1st to December 5th I just like see how people crab in other states
Wow! You guys are running a lot of pots. My hate's off to you brother. I know you guys work hard. No season for commercial crabbers in S.C. Some of my family was commercial crabbing a few years back. So, I went with them a few day during the good part of the year. We were getting 25 to 30 bushels a day. They were pulling around 200 pots a day. Thanks for watching!
like how you left the belly in fish - that is what they like the best
Yes, they're scavengers. The belly is just more for them to eat. Thanks for the comment and watching!