Fun and awesome video!! I subscribed to your channel and blessings to you and your family 😇 🇺🇸

I'm a retired lobsterman. In November I occasionally caught huge blue crabs. For dinner sometimes I had one crab and a beer. Those were the days!

As I came across your video again it struck me that a lot of people watching are not aware that your bait tank is being fed oxygen which allows the crabs to remain alive after being caught. Too many people are under the impression that you can just throw your crabs in a bucket filled with water and they will be ok not knowing that they will die once the oxygen is gone in about an hour or less. Folks don't realize they need to kept alive until being cooked or you can get sick from them spoiling. A side note most folks don't realize how important it is to keep the boat at the perfect speed and distance from the line to do it successfully and as seamlessly as you made it look when you were driving. I really think you should do a special video on how to keep the crabs alive until they make it to the stove. So many recreational crabbers get back to the dock with a bucket full of dead crabs. Keep the videos coming!

That was a great video----as a Bering Sea fisherman of the late 70's and early 80s this was fun to watch. Being a part of the Bering Sea experience we had 1.3 million lbs of Tanner and 1.2 million lbs of King crab. They tasted great each time we ate on board.

Great video on Trotline crabbing. Wish I had known this technique 40 years ago when I lived on the coast of Texas. I've seen blue crabs 9-12" offshore around the oil rigs.

I must say that you have a very smart way of catching crabs. Very effortless and efficient.

Excellent well made video. Now that was an awesome caretaking sharing learning experience! The right example of being a, "Steward" of God's creation by throwing the small ones and females back to fufill their purpose. The Trotline reminds me of what we use in Estona to catch Eels. A similar concept. Good job, Be safe and keep the crabs and videos coming!

Perhaps someone else has remarked that only a rank amateur would use a fabric net for crabs. Metal-wire nets, made for crabbing. Otherwise the crabs get hopelessly tangled each time. Nevertheless I appreciate that someone's done a video about trot lining crabs. Big fun! Bring a metal net.

Have never seen that done before. An awesome job of catching blue crabs. I'm from Texas and we use trotlines for catfishing. tnx for the VID.

Im down in Barnegat so i be tryin this technique...we drop traps out my back door but nothing like this fellas...awesome...thanks ☆

Awesome video! Loving this trot line. Can't wait to go crabbing soon.😊

I really enjoyed the video for the educational value but also because I was raised in Shrewsbury but spent most of my time on the Navesink.

Nice video showing a way of crabbing I was aware of. I done crabbing like that on a beach but not from a boat in deep waters. Thanks for sharing.

Great camera work! Appreciate the tips on identifying the keepers and letting the females go.

That's a great idea for crabbing. I live in ct and we just walk around the shallows at night and scoop them up but this seems like a great way and I want to try it for sure .great video thanks for sharing.

Nice job with the underwater camera. I used traps for years, but want to switch to trot line, seems like a lot less work! Thanks!

I’m on the other side of the country but I appreciate the effort that went into making this video. Excellent technique, great editing, and those crabs look delicious

I really liked how you showed your license at the end!

Back in the 50 and 60's dad and I had a trot line. We were poor fishermen but "killed" the Chesapeake blue crabs. Our sturdy line was 1200' baited it with salted eel. He also made the pulley out of an old coffee can and a bend galvanized pipe. Floats were bleach bottles and the weights were cinder blocks with a metal eye hook. I was 9 or 10 when we first started and maned the '57 Johnson 7 1/2 and dad used a six foot metal net on our 12' Chris Craft kit boat he built in the basement purchased from the factory in Baltimore. The trot line can sat outside for years and "ripened" in time, as you can imagine, which crabs love. Truly good times and remarkable memories.

The way we did it we used nets on a trout line we would get 6 to 8 at a time with chicken necks

Love this video and the camera watching the crabs under water! Priceless! 👍🦀

Great Video Sir. U explained it from start to finish.

Let me just say, you will give Bass Pro shop vendors a run for their money. You are a smart person if this was your idea, it not, you are a smart person for adopting, altering, adding to and making it your own...good job. Now, if you know someone moving to the Orlando Florida area and want to buy house, tell them to contact me and I will introduce them to the Florida Atlantic waters approx 45 minutes from Orlando and the beautiful Gulf of Mexico approx 75 minutes on the west coast. The best of both worlds for fishing and boating, plus they will have a gorgeous new house to come to when they return from the water...how about that! Come to Orlando Florida in the winter from up North and you will think you are in paradise as the weather here in our area is beautiful all year round. No boots or gloves needed. Look me up, I’m your Florida Realtor...again great job on the video. I love blue crabs, as I grew up near the Chesapeake Bay.

The Largest Blue Crab ever caught was weighed 1.1 lbs, 10.72 inch wide shell tip to tip and a 22 inch wide spread between the tips of it's claws. It was caught on the Virginia side of the Potomac river.

That looks like a blast. I enjoy one hand line and a net.

Hey really Loved watching this video. I wish I was out there doing that, hooooowheee. that is a bunch of fun. Ive always heard of doing this, really appreciate how you explained how to rig, setup and run it. Thanks

Great technique - gonna set up for our river here in Sapelo Island, GA. Thanks for the tips and how to!

Female crabs paint their fingernails...ie, their big claw tips are red. It makes it easy to ID when they are on the trot line, and you just knock them off, unless you want the netting practice. We used two baskets, one culling basket, just a dry bushel basket, and a keeper basket, another bushel basket, or laundry basket, kept cool and shaded by a wet towel. Living on the Chesapeake, trot lining is common practice. Couple of hours, and you get all you need. We aim for 6 to 8 feet of water.

Never seen crab caught like that! Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Wow! I had so much fun hanging out with you! Thank you for sharing 🦀🦞 I’d like to see you fishing for lobster

Great technique! Used to crab NJ waters with my folks as a kid. mm, crab spaghetti sauce!

Nice vid! Have a few trotline vids on our channel and you do a great job of explaining the whole process. 👍🏽

Very cool video. You got a new subscriber bro. Wish I could do stuff like that in Colorado lol.

Do you have a video on your garbage can holding tank? Looked like you had some pvc lines connected to it. Love to hear or see more on that. Awesome video.

How long do you let them soak before you run the line again? How deep were ya crabbing? Thanks for the video we do a troutline crabbing trip once a year in MD. but live in jersey and I would love to try this. I hate the traps, Where in general are ya crabbing? FYI ya can pick up a 40lb box of crab necks at B&B poltry on almond rd in norma, nj (near vineland) they package them in 4/10lb bags $28.

I remember my dad doing this in the fifties using an aluminum boat. I don't think I've seen it done this way since here in texas.

Video is well done. Great area off Monmouth Beach and Oceanport. From Long Branch, all the best.

Where are the doublers at when I use to crab we caught doublers quite a bit, but it’s been a good 20yrs or more since I crabbed md eastern shore my best was 21 bushel in 4hrs on 1200’ trot line but that was in the mid 80’s, I guess crabs aren’t as plentiful

What a great video, I learned a lot! Too bad I'm living on the west coast, but if I get the chance back east, hell yes!

Shout out to all my pax river southern md crabbers

Wow! I've never seen that technique Before, Awesome thanks for sharing

Wish that was legal here in Connecticut I would clean house. Now with chicken wings too damn expensive at $4:50 lb that would be an expensive day. Also the legal limit is 5” point to point and no egg berrying females. Nice video and nice day catching them !!!

Nice vid! We love to see crabbing like this - in SC we have never seen anyone trot lining for crabs. Looks like a lot of fun! Subbed & 👍 🦀

this is the best way to catch blue crabs! but you gotta find a good spot! but you can catch so many instead of paying 200 dollars for a bushel!

Was born and raised in Jersey about 25 miles away from Seaside never seen a trotline before have been a lot of crabbing off a boat and you know off the dock I've watched a lot of videos on Trotline crabbing I'll tell you what your video call to Moe's Crabs as the last hundred I seen go Jersey Shore I live in North Carolina now and I have for the past 13 years I am 55 so I didn't Jersey probably about 40 something years

That's a productive method.👍

Wow, that is amazing! I’ve never seen crabbing done that way.

We use to go crabbing off a dock in the northwest all the. We use a ring net with a big old turkey leg toed to it. Keep up the great work my friend. Oxoxox CM

Hope to join you one day for crabbing and I can cook great crab porridge for you guys.

Amazed that many crabs where that far out in the river. In Maryland on the east side of the Chesapeake they like the salt marsh areas.

This is the best and faster way to catch crab. I used it in my place and I catch 200 kgs daily

That was so cool to see this way of crabbing !

That trash can, looks like a live well right? If so is that plumed through your boat? Should make a video on that would like to see how that was done.

I seen some good Crabbers but your the best I ever seen

Great video I'm on the eastern shore of md and just bought a boat . I intend on doing a lot of crabbing and fishing . First off I like the Tony Soprano weights. The guy I bought the boat from used old brake rotors. Great but you better be caught up on you tetnis shots. I'll be going with the block and chain . They did give me 3 bìg floors too. Ok so first question is hiw long is the line? How long are they spaced out? And I imagine after catching you just turn around and motor back to your starting point? How long do you let the bait set before repeating the process? Thanks for your time

I rarely comment... but I gotta say that was a great video you put together, I've never seen that technique before... thanks for that

Now there's multiple ways you can tell if a suck as a peeler if it's aprons pink and if it's legs are starting to turn pink on the outer side it's going to turn into a peeler

DUDE that was AMAZING... Great job on the video work!

The crab cam was cool.

Here on LI we’re not allowed to keep females either! Because in their lifetime they can drop around 2 million eggs, its worth it to throw her back…Nice video!

Very awesome idea! Gonna have to give this a try

Nice video. ...great catch. We catch alot of crabs in MD too.

I like this guy . Nice crabs

Great video I hit subscribe button I’d love to see some more details on how you have the air hooked up to the garbage can ?

Love the boat name!

Learned another way to fish today ! Thank you , Dont have to get a special license no more ! WOW

This is cool as hell, I've never really seen this done before. I've lived in Jersey for almost 30 years and lived in Maryland as a kid so I know all about Blue Crab. Very cool video guys.👍👍

HOW far apart do you have your 'slip-knot'/baits spaced??? Length if trot line snd number of baits...???? THANK YOU... think my grand kids should thoroughly enjoy this from my boat snd along the surf inThe Gulf of Mexico/Grand Isle, LA

Gonna start Trot lining on my boat looks pretty simple

I once caught crabs with a parachute. Well, actually it was with the public jumpsuit we had to wear while parachuting. I used nuts for bait.

Such a well made and interesting video. I’m going to try this in SC.

Awesome video brother...

Am I wrong by saying that along with the wider apron under the shell her end of her claws are red. every blue crag I have caught is like that.

We get 2 bucks apiece for the shedder crabs / red liners ...... Our Crab buyer has a shedding system on his dock.....You sure were in a great area , lots of crabs in that open water ...

Hi. Really liked your video. Never saw crabbing done that way. Going to try it this season on Long Island. I would love to know how you made the garbage pail Live Well... If you can do a video explaining the parts and pieces soon, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the video and keep up the good work!

Nice post and great video! I just so happen to launch from the same spot. I was curious. How much trot line can you put out in NJ? I seem to remember it being very short.

Awesome video!! May I ask what launch that is?

Awesome video.. so how many times did you run the line and how many crabs did you end up with??? Thanks..

I find they do better in a dry wooden crate and at the end of the run i put a wet burlap bag on top of them.Great vid thats for sharing.

Like a pro! I love eating crabs. When should I buy a plane ticket? Haha

Wow... I like this style..

like the video thanks for the hard work

Great video really like the trot line crabbing..

💯👍"let's eat"🍺🍺😎🇺🇸

EXCELLENT Video ! can ya tell me the make and model of the newer crab net ? Thanks ; )

Hi how are you today sir, what the state you get blue carbs , if you don’t mind can you let me know thank sir, my name Steven, I live in Michigan state please,thank you again sir, have a great day

great video !!! thanks!!!

Why not go longer and spread them out a bit? Would that give you more time in between crabs? Do you need special license to crab this way?

you should do a diy video on that trash can live well

Thanks 🙏 for sharing

I like going to crabbing in summer

Nice job Doug. I tried this about 7 years ago in the Sink with my Zee Man crew. My frontline was set up almost exactly like yours except I didn't use cinder blocks but instead just used extremely heavy chains which were not heavy enough (big mistake) currents were pushing the line a little bit . I also clamped a home made PVC.rig to the boat to run the line but it kept coming loose. I also used the metal mesh net which helps a lot. Key is to keep line tight with the weights. We'll done. Did you retire the Night Hawk? And how many crabs did you finish with?

That line was on FIRE! All this terrible news has me watching crab videos today & now I've got crabbing fever. What was this like 5-6ft of water? I ask because of what appeared to be a very short lead line from anchor to float. Do you have a extender clip on board? Prep different lengths at home? Or just always set up that shallow?

Btw the first “sook” you called it was a “she crab” is what it is called it is a sexually immature female crab. She hasn’t had her first molt yet. Also great video!! I had to subscribe!

Won’t they drown if you keep them in water like that?

great stuff thanks for the idea!

Pretty cool vid guys. I love me some crabbies

Chicken is expensive bait for crab. Melts or spleen or just fish head makes good bait.

Trotlines are not considered Commercial?

What is the name of the sound track you used? It's awesome and perfect for this