Helped Neall pull his pots for the season which also coincides with the Nor’easter moving our way…pulled 200 pots…now he gets ready to oyster harvest.

Wow!!! I have always had a huge interest in crabbing. So, how old are those to get that size? Thanks for sharing your pictures.

Most are this season with some holdovers from last year.

Thanks. What a great sport that would be.

That’s how he makes his living…at the mercy of Mother Nature and the eventual breakdown.

How do you sell them or to who?

Was it a pretty decent year? I didn’t get the lines in the water once this year.

Just got done tonight w/ probably the last crab eat of '25, or maybe not, if we can get out 1 more time after this blow. Super MD crabs from the little Choptank. Crabs this time of year are as good as they get.

One of my favorite seafoods. I love soft shelled crab.

Looks like some really big female , how far down the road are you from the big bridge

That's too cool !

He sells to a local buyer at the marina by the bushel basket….this time of year the prices are pretty low…season for commercial harvest ends December…most of the watermen in this area are switching over to oyster harvest.

It was’t the best year…natural predators took a serious toll on the population in the Tangier Sound area where he was potting.

Tangier Sound…he runs out of a marina near Deal Island…by road an 1 1/2 hrs from the bridge.

what are the predators??

Rockfish and blue cats... he may know of others I don't. Most any fish on the bottom though will eat a blue crab if it can get it in it's mouth. I'm not a waterman but think I'm pretty close on this.

I finished up mid September, wasn't a good season, again....switched to green crabs now.

We've had invasions of summer dogs, (sand sharks) and rays that eat everything....never had that problem until about 3 years ago, which corresponds with the crummy blue crab season.

Coop is spot on