upper bay reports

[bayhead]

Friend caught over three dozen 7" and hard crabs yesterday at Sparrows point - on the bay shore - I saw them and can verify they were nice crabs.

Another friend caught almost 2 dozen in Back River this morning - not quite as nice but crabs are crabs this far north. Launched out of Rocky Point.

In both cases they worked for them - i.e crabbed a better part of the morning. Both friend used 30 foxy mate traps and fresh necks. Good news for local crabbers!

[Slipsinker]

Guess it's time to get ready for those Middle River crabs.[grin]

[seahack]

Thanks for the report. I hope to try some crabbing in about a week.

[fredjr]

excuse me for my ignorance but is sparrows point in the patapsaco? thanks for any info you can provide!!!

[baldpate]

Fredjr - Sparrows Point is on the north end of Baltimore Harbor - part of the Bethlehem Steel property - This place can and probably will be hot as a firecracker any time now[wink]

[fredjr]

thanks baldplate...man, they gotta be up the chester around eastneck any time now.

[Roger T]

I dont think I would eat any crab's out of there.You do know there is a consumtion advisery for the potapsco.
I fish the area and see turds the size of boats comming out of the poop plant[sad]not good.

[Durado]

I fish the area and see turds the size of boats comming out of the poop plantnot good


No you don't!!! and it's wrong to spread fragulent information like that. Crabs migrate, what may be in the Chester today, might end up in the patapsco tomorrow and the same in reverse. There is an advisory for the Inner Harbor, but the Patapsco starts at Bodkin Point and runs over to Fort Howard and includes 6,7,8 and 9 ft Knoll, Man of war Shoals, Brewerton channel etc.etc, which have historically been proven some of the best fishing around at the right time. With the wash down from the Susky, it's been proven that areas such as Swan Point, Love point and the Chester obtain the same amount of harmful pollution and in some cases more than the Patapsco. The harbor is filthy, I'll admit that, but so is the potomac around D.C. and every other city in and around water. I believe the Patapsco is a large body of water, tanted by a few small sections.....[sad][smile]

[C-Hawk18]

Durado,

I agree with you 100% in reference to the tidal movements and crab migration but I hope you know that the advisory is not just the Inner Harbor. It is the entire Patapsco from I295 to where it meets the Chesapeake Bay including all creeks and such.

[Steve F]

I have to put my 2 cents in on this one. I have been fishing and crabbing the Patapsco for 10 years and have caught many of crabs out of there and I will have to say I have never been sick and the crabs have a very good taste. Yes the river is full of sh## but if anyone has been on the river lately you could see that the water is clear and the fish that I have been catching have been clean and have no sores. I have crab on the Eastern and Western shores for over 30 years and found that the crabs are just about the same everywhere I crab. Just my 2 cents

[Roger T]

Jaybird originally wrote:
[q] I fish the area and see turds the size of boats comming out of the poop plantnot good

A-hole originally wrote:
No you don't!!! and it's wrong to spread fragulent information like that.
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Yes I have and yes I do fish the potapsco area.I have regularly seen halfway treated fecal matter released at the plant discharge on the potapsco.

And for you information blue crabs do not migrate that far,usally spend there time under the mud during the winter months.

The bay has a tide,and when the tide goes out ,so does all that trash and polution from the harbor?just common sense really.

If you want to eat crabs and such out of the potapsco.... go ahead thats your choice.
I was just saying there is a comsumtion warning ,crabs and cat fish are the worst,and have a higher dose of polution in them.

[Durado]

There's absolutely no way Fecal matter would stay in a solid form traveling a few miles from the originator, Down a toilet, THROUGH pipes, into a facility and whereever it goes from there, and flow out into the harbor as a nugget, much less the size of a boat.

.....Sorry for dis-agreeing with you, didn't mean to upset ya. Doesn't take much....[wink][smile]

.....I think I may have posted in the wrong forum, here. Name calling(which I don't think is necessary).........Yep, kindergarten!!!

And for you information blue crabs do not migrate that far,usally spend there time under the mud during the winter months.



.....as well, I hope you know more about fish than you do about crabs!!![grin]

[Roger T]

In the treatment plants there is a turd called a floater,these turds are tuff to knock back down with a garden hose.


Read on for info on crabs......



www.blue-crab.org/lifecycle1.htm

[Durado]

I'm on over at BlueCrab.[smile] Great site. Your link did not work, but I already know crabs migrate as well a terd wouldn't make it from point A to point Patapsco intact, unless you cut the middleman out and just drop it over the side.[grin]

[Roger T]

Good 1[grin]

[POLECAT]

With all those foreign ships coming and going in the harbor, wouldn't some of that stuff roll off the poop deck?[grin] Dem be da floaters?

[Durado]

At any given time you see a "Floater" coming out of ANY sanitaion plant...Please, feel free to call the EPA, but make your first call to the local news!!! And take some pics......


....I was wondering why my crabs had a Peanutty corn flavor to them.[tongue]

[Fish Slap]

Floaters don't generally issue from the plant. They're from overflow events or pump failures or breaks in the lines. We used to call 'em "Perry Hall cucumbers" on the Gunpowder from the regular pumping station overflows there. Same thing off Herring Run at Back River. It DEFINITELY happens almost every year.

The plants are top notch. Problem is the antequated delivery lines and pumping stations.

[Ready2Reel]

I'm not too worried about what is floating, as much as the heavy metal silt on the floor... Damn crabs taste too good ! Its like smoking.. you know that the outcome MAY be bad, but while your doing it YUMMMMMMMY ! I'm getting my pots ready this weekend !

Is there such a thing as a Farm Raised crab ? Kinda like they do for catfish these days ??

I know that they have shedding farms, but I imagine they catch those in the bay and just keep them around until they get them to shed