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 st. luice river.....4 pots  3nite soak.....only 8 keepers, all jimmies.....comm guys say it is gettin slow and crabs have shunk...

Never tried it myself and don't know anyone who has.

Ask the locals.

I would expect the technique would be the same as in Florida. Outgoing tide.

I know just north of you they cast net over baited pole markers mostly.

Has anyone ever the shrimping technique using the green light and dip net in N.C. We have trawlers and channel netters here commercially. Recreationally, casts net, pots, and seines are used, but I have never heard of anyone using green lights and a dip net. I wonder if it would work here and what part of the tide to try it on?

Gotta believe no body know dem crab like a cajun, an I know fo a fact that dem cajun is shipping crab to Baltimore, cause dey run outta crab in the bay! I has to go wit Zatarain's cause it from South Louisiana and they sell it in BIG bucket for dem fais do do (thas Cajun for PARTEE, yall)   

Thanks for another most interesting report! Those Sivers look very nice indeed!
I guess the top photo is the Rockfish?
Always interested to find out whats going on in Alaska! Thanks.
What do you do up there during the long winters? I think that would drive me nutz!
I had a friend up in the Colorado mountains. He had a CD, movie and book library

You should try smoking some of your catch. Beware though that the smoke taste becomes addictive!
I also smoke fish and pork butts. It's better than you can get anywhere.
I have a cookshack 009. I really like Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce.

Well, I returned home last evening after a full two weeks in Seward. During that time we had rain all but 2 and 1/2 days! Guess that's what Alaska's good at, huh?
The fishing was slower than we like, probably due to the continual unsettled weather. I've attached two photos of some of our catch. During the 2 weeks we caught 40 silvers and our best day was 13. And with the next best at 10 you can see some of those days were down around 2 fish a day
The Ling cod is in the 45 to 50 lb range but unfortunately we caught him 300 yards on the wrong side of the line and had to release him. Actully he grabed onto a rock fish my granddaughter caught (which is typical) and rode all the way to the surface. I simply reached in his mouth and dehooked the rock fish and away he went!

At this point I have no desire for any more fish and if I go out in September, it might be for a little Black Bear hunting, other wise, I'll wrap everything up and start looking ahead to next year. In all it was a pretty good summer for us. We learned a long time ago to take what you get cheerfully, after all there's not much you can do about it anyway!

With new shrimp gear on the horrizon, my winter will be fun as I put the new stuff together. As I get moving on that, I'll be sure and keep you in the loop as to where were going and why.

Quite a few of my buddys smoke both salmon and halibut, we havn't fooled with it much though. There's quite a few outfits that sell "Alaskan Gift Packs" catering to the tourist when their here. You can go online and find all manner of wild berry and fish products if your interested.

I'm gonna get back after my boat cleaning, I wanted to take a minuite and find out what's been happening in the world while we we gone. Enjoy the pictures and I'll get back on here once I have something worth passing along. Thanks for the continual interest.
Mike

Evidently and unfortunately no one responded because they do not have knowledge of the area.
I don't either; sorry!

I have heard reports of them catching some good crabs in the Daytona area!
I am getting crabs in CT right now if that helps ya!

Cheers!

I posted the request on the fly dear brothers but I didn't get no reply dear brothers,i didn't get get no reply.to this point 318 people looked but no response. we'll be down in Nov.and will try on the blind and will let y'all know if there is anything swimming around there with blue claws.  PEACE!!!  John

I talked to a guy who almost filled two 5 gallon buckets a couple weeks ago.  He said it's hit and miss.