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siro123
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:35 pm Post subject: Crabbing Spots ? Going April 3rd to the 6th |
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Rented a beach house i would like to catch some crabs.
Anybody have a good spot to crab ?
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Tyler Site Admin

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ziacatcher Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Posts: 6552 Location: The Bluff
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Railroad bridge off of Flour Bluff Drive. Lots of crabs in the Oso. While you're there you can probably catch flounder to stuff with the crabs you catch. |
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siro123
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 8:08 am Post subject: |
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House is across the street from the water.
I will travel to spots to catch some nice crabs.
I will also be fishing on Bob Hall Pier.
Thanks Ziacatcher ! |
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HauntedByWaters Finger Mullet
Joined: 22 May 2015 Posts: 44
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:46 am Post subject: |
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| ziacatcher wrote: | | Railroad bridge off of Flour Bluff Drive. Lots of crabs in the Oso. While you're there you can probably catch flounder to stuff with the crabs you catch. |
If you don't mind me asking, is that near Yorktown, or the other way down FBD. I was just looking at a map, and I am not sure where this location would be. Thanks. |
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Central Scrutinizer Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Posts: 3582 Location: Flour Bluff
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:56 am Post subject: |
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The one on Yorktown is the old Mud Bridge. Zia is referring to the road off FBD (that curves behind the water-tower) and goes to the railroad bridge. So aptly named because the railroad used to parallel FBD and go all the way into NAS. It has been long since ripped out, save for the parts of the railroad that are embedded in the access road at SPID, which is why its always bumpy at that turnaround. TxDOT, in their infinite wisdom, left that section of rail in the roadway....
Bonus question. What is the name of the road leading to the mud bridge? |
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speckled.trout Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 1190
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Holly Rd.
ST _________________ People always tell me to act my age. I tell them I don't know how, I've never been this old before. |
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Central Scrutinizer Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Posts: 3582 Location: Flour Bluff
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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Ding, Ding, Ding!!!!
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
[Although I have been told it is more properly named Holly Extension, from the Vietnam era days of the railroad]
So End'th Today's Lesson. CS |
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speckled.trout Full Grown Flour Bluffian
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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I guess it would be called the Holly Extension, it's extended from the other side.
That was a real sad curve to pass by when the trains were taking the torn up Hueys and Cobras to be repaired. I remember seeing many, many flatbed rail cars with helicopters passing by there.
ST _________________ People always tell me to act my age. I tell them I don't know how, I've never been this old before. |
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siro123
Joined: 31 Mar 2016 Posts: 5
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| ziacatcher wrote: | | Railroad bridge off of Flour Bluff Drive. Lots of crabs in the Oso. While you're there you can probably catch flounder to stuff with the crabs you catch. |
I hope i can catch a few crabs there this weekend. I love Blue Crabs !
I might try to fish on the oso pier too. |
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ziacatcher Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Posts: 6552 Location: The Bluff
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I've had a lot of luck hooking a gulp on a jig head and just dragging it on the bottom while I'm walking along the bridge waiting to check my crab traps |
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HighTide Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 552 Location: Padre Isles
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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I live on a canal front home and I haven't crabbed in about a month because I have so much crab meat saved up. I suspect they're still here. I will be setting out the traps on Saturday just to see what happens. _________________ HighTide
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If changes in barometric pressure cause your joints to hurt, do pilots and divers have a lot of joint pain? |
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HighTide Member White Shrimper Boot Club

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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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I put out 4 traps this morning and I checked them a while ago. There are 5 crabs in them. The crabs are still here. I'm sure that the count will double overnight. _________________ HighTide
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siro123
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| HighTide wrote: | | I put out 4 traps this morning and I checked them a while ago. There are 5 crabs in them. The crabs are still here. I'm sure that the count will double overnight. |
Nice |
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HighTide Member White Shrimper Boot Club

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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 8:46 am Post subject: |
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OK, I have 10 crabs in the traps as of right now. My guess is, the crabs are still in this area.  _________________ HighTide
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