Little Choptank River – Cherry Point to Magothy River Anchorage
The watermen
woke us with the sound of their engines as they fished crabs out of the Little
Choptank. Here the watermen use
trotlines rather than crab pots to harvest their catch. A long line with dozens of baited hooks
strung between two buoys is used to capture the crabs. The watermen bring their boat to one of the
buoys and raise the line out of the water and set it on a roller which allows
them to move the boat along the line and net the crabs as the line moves toward
the water’s surface. The crabs tend to
hold onto the bait long enough to be netted by the watermen. This crabbing methods is our favorite as it
greatly reduces the number of buoys in the water compared to crabbing with crab
pots where each pot is marked with a buoy.
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| Trotline Crabbing on the Little Choptank River |
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| Crabpots on Deadrise Roof |
It was a long run to the Magothy River. The wind was from the north. So, we motored almost the entire way. There were quite a few fishermen just north of the Bay Bridge. We think they were jigging for striped bass because of the underwater topography and it is near end of the striped bass spawning season. Not long afterward, we were entering the Magothy River and soon anchored behind Gibson Island. Several other boats anchored there as well. We had a quiet night.
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