tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965951790123936165.post4385052519997394139..comments2023-04-13T07:43:30.833-04:00Comments on The Deuce: Road to NoWherephillipthe2http://www.blogger.com/profile/17751436376944257745noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965951790123936165.post-85423806099216383222012-05-10T11:36:50.995-04:002012-05-10T11:36:50.995-04:00Once the "smell" of chicken (or any bait...Once the "smell" of chicken (or any bait of your choosing) is in the water I'd say I averaged a crab every ten or fifteen minutes. Once they start feeding they are pretty much oblivious to everything else...one could damned near pull the bait out of the water before the crab realizes anything is afoul. A single piece of chicken will last the entire day, provided something larger (tarpon, alligator, dolphin, etc) doesn't come along.phillipthe2https://www.blogger.com/profile/17751436376944257745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965951790123936165.post-91585604220333175372012-05-10T02:38:31.577-04:002012-05-10T02:38:31.577-04:00Pardon my lack of reading comprehension re: crabbi...Pardon my lack of reading comprehension re: crabbing...out of curiosity, how quick are the little nippers to catch on & bug out if one's too hasty in retracting the bait?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965951790123936165.post-76677347985767244982012-05-08T10:40:31.210-04:002012-05-08T10:40:31.210-04:00Fishing has always been...everyone else's bag....Fishing has always been...everyone else's bag. I have absolutely no, zero patience for fishing with a rod a reel...thirty minutes into it and you'd be lucky if I'm not throwing rocks and whatnot into the water. The chicken on a string method is relatively entertaining, but effort free? No, that would be dynamite fishing...though shellfish don't have a tendency to float after said method is applied.<br /><br />Thankfully, I don't live in Dixie County. I'm about 100 miles away...a little closer to the Disney-metroplex. Our swamps, marshes, and out-of-the-way areas are filled with far fewer "smugglers blues" carcasses than say, the Everglades.phillipthe2https://www.blogger.com/profile/17751436376944257745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965951790123936165.post-50957807308879134482012-05-08T01:17:06.325-04:002012-05-08T01:17:06.325-04:00Funny you should mention Red Lobster: I happen to ...Funny you should mention Red Lobster: I happen to live in a corner of Michigan so damn far down the economic drain that ours kicked the bucket roughly half a decade ago, and the building in question was reinvented as a Russ'-type breakfast nook...which folded in turn, and is now being re-tooled as yet another Chinese buffet (come for the sugar donuts, stay for the Moctezuma's).<br /><br />Honestly, while I love a good volume on marine life, fishing has always been my dad's bag. However, the method described here sounds effort-free enough that I'd say the Southern crowd has the right idea.<br /><br />I suppose for a broad definition of "bird," the trail served its lip-service purpose. Good to know your elected officials were lookin' out (though perhaps not *ahead*).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com