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Post by BigDawg71 on Nov 23, 2010 10:46:59 GMT -5
anyone know of any bait shops in Pinellas county that sell fiddler crabs? I don't have time to get out before Thursday and catch my own and would like to get some before then so I can target the sheepshead.
thanks
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Post by havetofish on Nov 23, 2010 13:45:12 GMT -5
Sometimes Tatum's has them..you can call
2445 34th Street South St. Petersburg, FL 33711-3526
(727) 321-9353
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Post by blacktip on Nov 23, 2010 17:41:05 GMT -5
Gandy bait n tackle normally has them. Not the big fancy one the lil run down one next to it. talk to John.
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Post by BigDawg71 on Nov 23, 2010 18:01:18 GMT -5
thanks fellas
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Post by fishboy on Nov 24, 2010 15:17:03 GMT -5
where do you catch your fiddlers from. i just buy them at the gandy bait shop but i dont mind tryin to catch some
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Post by BigDawg71 on Nov 24, 2010 20:54:20 GMT -5
usually around areas with mangroves
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Post by fishboy on Nov 24, 2010 23:26:45 GMT -5
thanks, do you dig for them or are they just runnin around
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Post by BigDawg71 on Nov 24, 2010 23:34:46 GMT -5
both but mainly gotta dig a little
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Post by fishboy on Nov 24, 2010 23:55:00 GMT -5
o.k thanks, ill definitely try catching some next time i'm up there
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Post by jaeforceone on Nov 25, 2010 9:43:49 GMT -5
i hear the sheepies are around the pillings, i'm sure they'll love a fiddler
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Post by BigDawg71 on Nov 25, 2010 17:21:19 GMT -5
They were hiding today that's for sure..last time they were thick..oh well
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no1painter
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Post by no1painter on Nov 27, 2010 8:53:50 GMT -5
When I was a kid, many years ago, we would stay at Mayo's Cottages in Indian Rocks, they had a 300ft. pier on the Gulf just north of the Big Indian Rocks Pier. John and his wife would furnish all the free, I said free, green backs and fiddlers for bait . We kids, my cousins, brother and sister would help out on the pier by pumping salt water up from the Gulf with a pitcher pump into a reservoir above the live well for the green backs. Some times when we were there he would take us to the Largo causeway near Bay Pines at low tide and we would herd the fiddler crabs into a croaker sack set up with a couple of boards to funnel them into the bag and a stick to prop the bag open. We caught hundreds in just a short time. Painter
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Post by tylerdurden on Nov 27, 2010 11:12:54 GMT -5
I try to get close to the water where they stay up in their holes a little to get out of the water thats in them and the mud or sand is soft. Then I use either my finger a branch or something to stick in the mud behind the crab thru their hole blocking off their escape then just work it forward thru the mud til I push the crab out of their hole
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Post by BigDawg71 on Nov 27, 2010 12:03:08 GMT -5
I try to get close to the water where they stay up in their holes a little to get out of the water thats in them and the mud or sand is soft. Then I use either my finger a branch or something to stick in the mud behind the crab thru their hole blocking off their escape then just work it forward thru the mud til I push the crab out of their hole sounds about the same way i do it as well..better than paying $3.99 a dozen, that's for sure!
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Post by bucsfan4ever on Nov 27, 2010 13:36:32 GMT -5
RE......When I was a kid, many years ago, we would stay at Mayo's Cottages in Indian Rocks........ Were those cottages right on the beach? Back in the early '60's, we used to go to Indian Rocks Beach & stay in these tiny wooden cottages. Step out the door & right on to the beach. Wonderful memories of family time. I seem to remember fishing on a pier there, there were alot of kids working there at the baithouse.
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no1painter
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Post by no1painter on Nov 28, 2010 12:50:05 GMT -5
Bucsfan, yes they were two bed room cottages right on the beach. There was a shell covered drive from Gulf Blvd. into the middle with a covered parking parking area for 2 cars between the cottages. The Mayos stayed in the first cottage on the right. Painter
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Post by truckyfd on Nov 28, 2010 13:28:49 GMT -5
it's a small small world! spent two summers there when we lived in ohio!
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Post by bucsfan4ever on Nov 28, 2010 14:54:52 GMT -5
I had forgotten all about those cottages til I saw the word Mayo, then the lite went on. We used to bring a couple of fans cause there was no a.c. I remember my sis & I being sent to bed at sunset one nite. We could hear all the other kids still playing & got very p.o'ed. Wasn't until yrs later I figured out the reason, they wanted some "sexy-time". Was '61-'62, along in there.
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Post by dadflyer on Dec 2, 2010 14:54:49 GMT -5
Anybody tried regular "crab knuckles" (crab shell and meat) on the hook instead of using full sized fiddlers ?
Dadflyer
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