Six sailors go drinking, come home with crabs

[Marc]

Well we had an awesome weekend with hardly any wind on the water and two nights of sitting around the campfire drinking beer and telling stories. Someone threw my work gloves in the fire on the first night but we wont go there ;).

We caught around 24 crabs in 2 1/2 days with 14 keepers (mmm crabs and beer). We also tried prawn trapping and set out two traps that brought in 54 prawns. I guess I can say now that my trap has paid for itself in crab. Now to buy some prawn traps.

The day we went to leave the owner of the tent trailer couldn't find his car keys and had to send one of the boys home to get the second set. When he got home and his wife was helping him clean out the trailer she found his keys in a half eaten chip bag. Tell me someone wasn't drinking the night before :D

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/3camper.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/3Rob_and_Paul.jpg

[Marc]

Here is a couple more pics of the boat and the catch.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/3Prawns.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/3marc_and_boat.jpg

[Blacktail]

where did ya go campin??

Looks alittle cool in the second pic

[MB_Boy]

Nice Work Marc,

I was also prawning through the weekend up in Howe Sound. We were at a friend's cabin on Anvil Island just North of Gambier. Two prawn traps dropped 4 times through the weekend for about 8-10 hours each time and we had one heck of a good haul. Gave up counting while we were pulling off heads and tails, but compared to some of the hauls up there where we have counted there was definitely in the neighborhood of 500+ wih 4 guys sick of eating prawns by the end of the weekend and each brought a couple of good size zip-loc's home as well. Good to see you guys did pretty well.

[Marc]

where did ya go campin??

Looks alittle cool in the second pic

We were out in the Croften area, we were about 20 minutes from where we set the prawns and it was a cool ride in an open boat.

[Thunderstix]

Sounds and looks like a great time Marc....wish I were there!

[willyqbc]

This is just wrong on so many levels......you had a whole week-end free and you didn't go out HUNTING???? I'm very disappointed in you Marc....."sigh".....where did we go wrong?? You try to raise 'em up proper and despite your best efforts things like this still happen. Ah well, at least ya got some tasty vittles out of the deal!!!

Chris

[Marc]

Well Chris I pretty much didn't have a choice in the matter.:) Most of my department from work was going and it got me Friday off work ;). I thought of it as not being able to go hunting for a weekend, but you know what? I really had a great time just sitting around the fire drinking beer and playing out in the boat. Now that my wife has had a feed of crab and prawn I’ve gotten permission to buy a prawn trap.

There will be other opportunities in the woods. Macster and I are headed back in for the day on Friday :D

Marc.

[Marc]

I got a bit of flack because I never posted a pic of inside the trailer and the camp cook. Here is a picture of Pete who did all the cooking and took care of the lodging arangements for the weekend. I wonder if I could talk him into taking that camper hunting? 8) Thanks Pete!

Marc.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/3pete.jpg

[3kills]

i wanna a trailer like that...a tv and a cook!! nice deal...lol

[Marc]

The best part was when he tucked you into bed at night. ;)

[Marc]

My father and I went back prawning and crabbing on the 22nd of December we set out two crab traps and 3 prawn traps. We checked them the following day and we had no crabs in one trap and eight in the other. I picked the 4 biggest crabs and put the traps back in the water as I knew once I got to the prawn traps I would need as much room to work as possible. We get to the location where I had set out the traps the day before but I only notice one of my markers. I pull it up and nothing in the traps just a couple spider crabs and a bull fish. So I'm like where is my otter trap? I look around in the general area and then try and determine where the tide would have taken it. About 500 yards away I see my marker and the trap was in 500 feet of water at this point. No prawns in it either. The day before I was talking to two other boats that said they had both gotten their limits and I hadn't gotten one prawn sounds pretty fishy to me. I'm just glad they didn't take my traps.

Here is a picture of my father and a crab pot full of crab.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/3Dad_with_Crabs.jpg

[bone-collector]

good show Marc, prawning can be finicky at best , usualy we find a freshwater stream entering the ocean and then set up in about 200 fet of water and try and keep them 3-5 feet off the bottom, prawns are great swimmers spider crabs arent :wink:

[Thunderstix]

Great photo Marc.