God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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..
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want.
Yup. I spent a lot of time in Easton in 2019 and 2020 dealing with my father’s situation, and the last steamed bushel I bought in Sept. 2020 was $200. That was the going rate in Easton as well as down the road towards Tilghman.
Worth every penny too. We ate like pigs for a couple of days then froze the rest for later. A quick run in a steamer brings them right back. Got that idea from the lady that runs Chesapeake Landing.
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.
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.
Same time frame, Jeff. We probably ran across each other out there at some point in the 70's.
Crabbing and fishing was good out there. Used to have a great flounder hole on the channel and caught a chitload of redfish and trout out where the old bomb craters were.
If you know where the inside and outside channels meet, that's a killer spot in a boat. Just be real careful if you try to anchor up. Lots of ghost traps out there. About gave up a nut pulling one up full of sand once. Didn't feel like cutting my anchor line and losing that anchor. Lol.
Good times!
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
My gun club has an annual all-you-can-eat crab night. Gets sold out quickly. It's been cancelled before when the price of blue claws was too high. Would have had to charge $50 pp to make any money for the club. I hope it doesn't come to that this year.