cranky's crab conquest!!! and a fish too... (pics)

[crankybait]

hey guys! well i was going to the navesink river for weakfish and my dad decided we should go crabbing... that was fine. well aparently the weakfish and stripers only bit at night... and the lady said ONLY, no chance of a catch. ok so we had a blast dropping traps all over the place and picking them up every two minutes... i didnt catch any fish so i thought, whatever i'll just crab so after about 20 minutes:


then i caught this... no idea what kind of fish but it was tiny... never theless, fun to prove that lady wrong

got it from under here:


so we had fun, my dad didnt know how to row though, maneuvering took a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time... heres the catch of the day:

up close:


7 inches, BANG!
full bucket:


oh and this is what happens when you bring home a ful bucket without a top:


well it was fun... maybe a bass would feel better but hey.

[Rodman_Rob]

shoulda used that fish for bait, woulda been a good sized bait for a striped bass. thats the sized shiners they use down here to catch em. think they actually grow bigger up where you're at than down here.

[crankybait]

yep, i thought of that a bit too late... i smacked myself shortly afterwards

[JB]

[zooker]

fish looks like a herring or mullet. was there a black dot on it and where was it??

zooker

[kbkindle]

kbkindle here hey cranky, your better looking over here on this site than the other. talked to you on ccl site i think its going dead. you still making cranks and painting them kb hey i just saw zooker name here also

[zooker]

kbindle
welcome to the funny farm old friend..yep i have been on here a loooong time.. as you can tell from my post count.. this is a great place to talk fishing it has a few trolls and of course cranky -the little rag head that could lol-you may see a couple of familiar names inculding tom,and deacon..

zooker

[kbkindle]

Originally Posted by zooker

kbindle
welcome to the funny farm old friend..yep i have been on here a loooong time.. as you can tell from my post count.. this is a great place to talk fishing it has a few trolls and of course cranky -the little rag head that could lol-you may see a couple of familiar names inculding tom,and deacon..

zooker

yeh when i read the count of post you have been here a while good old cranky he cracks me up. sound like will have some fun kb
talk later zooker

[crankybait]

haha nice photoshopping JB... and i must admit, my dad made a scene in public because he wanted to take every damn crab, even if they were under limit... i got rid of 5 under limit ones, 2 while they came up i "accidentaly" shook em out, 2 of them, "bit" me and i chucked them in shock one under limit was taken and my dad started screaming, no dont put it back! lol! i got rid of it at the dock.

kb- great to see you here! yes i still do make cranks. more designing lately, becuase my basement is being finished. havent worked on lures for about 3 weeks.

zooker- damn i couldn't bring myself to put you on my iggy list... when i see that little thing that says this message is ignored, i get curious to see what it said... heck selective ignoring now. yes there was a dot on it. right near the edge of the gll plate. you can see the black spot, not all of it though

[zooker]

it was a herring then mullet have a dot near the tail fin..

zooker

[crankybait]

awesome... ive caught a herring... lets see i think that is the 6th fish species ive ever caught... time to celebrate! i feel like crabs

[HulaPopr]

Good job, there aren't many things better than a big bucket full of blue crabs.

[bassintom]

that is a snapper blue....the one i said you could catch a s***pot ful on a in line spinner.
some of those crabs don't look legal size.hardshell crabs must be 4 1/2" point to point.

[IL.bassin]

Originally Posted by bassintom

that is a snapper blue....the one i said you could catch a s***pot ful on a in line spinner.
some of those crabs don't look legal size.

Tom does that fish equal a shad cuz it looks alot like one.

[Rodman_Rob]

thats not a shad, it is about the same size of many types of shad.

[bassintom]

IL,no..that is a small bluefish..they have teeth and when they get big they have bigger teeth.no lipping those things.when you find one,there's usually a million more of their brothers and sisters with them.

[crankybait]

bluefish are big... smell bad but fight great. i checked all the crabs. the limit is 4 1/2 inch point to point, most were sooks. te ones you see made it, not my much but they made it.

[FlyRod]

Originally Posted by zooker

..the little rag head that could...

zooker

Jeebus!

FR

[mack]

cranky, that is a snapper blue...she is wrong tho cause i caught my biggest striper during the day..i dont know about weakfish but im goin on charter and its during the days so im guessing shes wrong again...not all those crab look 4.5 inches from point to point (the ones on your floor)....

[Captmikestarrett]

Can some one say Old Bay.

HHHMMM... makes me want crabs tonight.

Capt Mike

[crankybait]

yes you can usually catch fish at most times some better than others. the ones on the floor were infact 4.5 point to point.

[zooker]

il rodman is right a blue back herring. looks alot like gizzard shad. but remember this he is caughting blue crabs in brackish water. gizzad shad can not survive in brackish water even small amounts of salt water will kill them.....

zooker

[flbassman]

Crabbin is good stuff. Went out yesterday with a buddy and castnetted some shrimp. Froze 'em up, next weekend, they're going back in the river....

[JB]

when we used to live at st. simons we had pretty good luck crabbin with a piece of frozen chicken

[crankybait]

ive wanted to try out different stuff when crabbing... i mean, i can have like 10 droplines out. next time ill go with:
bunker
chicken
liver
shrimp
squid
crabmeat