Looking for green crabs/whiteleggers

[Angler2184]

I run a party boat in OCMD and I am looking for some green crabs,whiteleggers,or hermits. They are nowhere to be found down this way right now....Thanks for the help...

 

[F/V First Team]

Will you be picking them up?

 

[Angler2184]

Will you be picking them up?

It depends on where they are located...I would probably need 5bushels

 

[F/V First Team]

Any from me would be up in Maine, might be able to handle those for you this summer if we get into crabbing.

 

[Angler2184]

Any from me would be up in Maine, might be able to handle those for you this summer if we get into crabbing.

I appreciate the info, but we only tog fish during the winter and spring....during the summer months we are Seabass and flounder fishing.

 

[F/V First Team]

Gotcha

If I can find someone in this area up here that is doing it now are you interested?

 

[Angler2184]

Gotcha

If I can find someone in this area up here that is doing it now are you interested?

Maine would be a little too far for me to go... I was thinking nj/ny area....

 

[steveinak]

Gotcha

If I can find someone in this area up here that is doing it now are you interested?

stick them on a brooks or friendship truck going to ny or nj delivering traps or maybe a fish truck heading to pt pleasant ???

 

[F/V First Team]

Something like that maybe.
Been looking to establish a market for those little bastards, people will get them but right now they just go under the boot.

 

[twister]

we have a market here, the snail guys use them for bait and the tog guys too. we usually have enough supply of our own but sometimes it gets tight down here.

 

[Angler2184]

stick them on a brooks or friendship truck going to ny or nj delivering traps or maybe a fish truck heading to pt pleasant ???

Definitely would be interested if I could pick them up in pt pleasant

 

[steveinak]

I'm guessing you don't have whiteleggers down your way ?? must be some kind of junk crabs on the sandy bottom ?? Get a couple of lobster traps or even blue claw traps, tighten up the vents and make a "test set" you might be surprised ??

 

[steveinak]

Definitely would be interested if I could pick them up in pt pleasant

I don't know if they could catch you some green crabs in maine this time of year but if they could it might be worth the ride up there and bring back 50 bushels, sell to the other boats for a nice profit ??? Try posting on https://www.facebook.com/groups/265498650209173/
Maine Commercial Fishing gear, Swap/Sell you might find more crabs than you know what to do with !!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/265498650209173/

 

[steveinak]

Something like that maybe.
Been looking to establish a market for those little bastards, people will get them but right now they just go under the boot.

You guys are squishing quarters under them boots !! there's money in them little bastages.

 

[jwalka51]

I get 35$$$ a bushel for them. Can move 30 bushells a week in peak tog season.

 

[jwalka51]

I have 5 crates full that have been floating at my dock since the fall. If they are still kicking I would like to get rid of them.

 

[Angler2184]

I can usually catch the white ones in our back bays but the water temp is too cold right now, it needs to warm up probably 3-5 degrees.

 

[Angler2184]

I have 5 crates full that have been floating at my dock since the fall. If they are still kicking I would like to get rid of them.

Any way you can have them shipped south?

 

[jwalka51]

maybe. I would have to look into it.

 

[duxbait]

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