I haven’t been crabbing in years
Me either, hanco. Those were the days.. Broke as a $2 Zebco.
Old gf and I used to go out by Tierra Verde near the bridge going out onto the island and set out several lines with chicken backs. String each chicken back to a stick shoved down in the sand. When the stick starts bouncing, slowly reel in the crab gnawing on the chicken back and get them in a dip net. Usually fill up one or two 5 gal buckets in an afternoon. Go back home and spend the next couple hours cleaning them and have a big crab salad feast. Those were the days..
I fished the bridges and causeways around Tierra Verde when I was in High School in the 70s.
On Friday nights we'd stay all night, our parents were use to us fishing there and never questioned our requests to overnite it there.
We'd fish for a while then head over to the Tierra Verde Yacht Club.
There'd be party's on a dozen different yachts on a weekend night.
We'd yacht hop from party to party scoring free drinks all along the way. Once we'd get completely wasted we'd head back and camp under one of the bridges or on out at Fort Desoto.
Great times for fishing and scoring free liquor for us wayward teens.
