Pacemaker Fishing Forum

drxfish wrote:

Always love your reports and pics.  How do you catch the shrimp?  Those are some jumbos!  How was the crabbing for you this year?

For the last several years shrimp have been showing up in the Chesapeake in good numbers. In mid summer they start turning up in small muddy creeks, then in September they start pushing out and can be found in the mouths of those same creeks. I catch them in a cast net, along with all sorts of other critters like that little puppy drum and the burrfish. They get spooked by the boat and start jumping, that's how I know where to net them. They can be found from Virginia Beach to the Potomac, and maybe even further up than that.

Crabbing was productive for me. I'm not real serious about it, I usually just drop a pot near my launch site and then bring a dip net to scoop them off pilings while I'm fishing. I'm usually only looking to bring home a dozen or less.

Very cool.  When I was young, my dad kept a Carrie Craft Catamaran Houseboat in Solomons, but we took it all over the Bay all the way to the Bay Bridge Tunnel.  Also, from above Key Bridge to the Bay when he originally moored it at Fort Washington.  I have fond memories of all of the marine life we saw.

VA let's you drop a pot? I wish MD would allow that! Very cool on the shrimp! I got a jon boat last year and have been working up to some eastern shore trips. Lots of reds around this year up here in MD! What's your solution for rod storage? I am having a hard time figuring out where to put vertical or horizontal rods.

Awesome report as always bryan!  I really appreciate you're perspective on the salts!