Redfish and crabs grand isle
 

Friday started crabbing with kids and as fast as you could hang the chicken on the string line the crabs were on them. 9 dozen in 3 hours. Then when they stopped they STOPPED. Lol.
Then fished the pass with cracked crab and hauled in some nice bulls. Waiting to see what Saturday and Sunday have in store. Kids are loving it!
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That's how they are on the beach.
Glad to see you caught a few.


One more thing, I'm not saying you did or didn't but if you catch one with an orange sponge looking thing on the bottom throw it back, those are illegal to keep.

Yeah we only had one female like that and threw her back I knew about that one. Thanks guys

i'm stupid on this.... what is the orange sponge thing about.

thankfully I haven't encountered it yet... although my default is to never keep anything that is questionable.

Eggs


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Any luck today?

Its a PonPon or a sponge. its where the eggs come out of the female crab. I've read they only lay eggs once in their lifetime.

Went to elmers this morning. No luck on speck. Saw quite a few of good reds pulled in.

Left and went t9 state park and got there for about 930 and put 14 nice 16 to 19 inch specks in the basket. Just walked out the water to get something to drink.

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Thanks for the report, going down Monday with son, were the crabs off the state park beach? Thanks in advance.

We caught all our crabs off elmers island beach. We didn't try the crabs at the state park