Chesapeake Crabbing - Chesapeake Blue Crabs - Catch your own crab feast!
Let’s Go Crabbing!
About Our Crabbing Charters
Bring home a Chesapeake Bay Crab Feast!
Enjoy a great Chesapeake Bay tradition of catching or crabbing the Maryland Blue Crab with a Trot Line.
Our morning crabbing will be done with commercial style "Trotline" for the Maryland Blue Crab and dipping your Maryland Crab Feast
All Equipment, line, bait will be provided.
Capt. Frank has been fishing and crabbing on the Chesapeake Bay for over 40 years.
He will use his many years of experience to guide you from his dock on the Magothy river, one the best crabbing spots on the bay.
Capt. Frank will show you how to crab with a commercial trot line the way countless Bay watermen have done for hundreds of years.
Contact 443-995-8666
Availability
All Crabbing charters must be scheduled in advance.
All Charters are for your group only. I do not mix charters.
Crab Charters will start in June with only one trip per day.
We start crabbing at 7am or earlier. No afternoon crabbing.
Please review my online calendar and send me a request for an open date that works for you.
All Charters are for your group only. I do not mix charters.
Charter Rates and Info
Crabbing / Fishing Charters: $550 (Total)
* Max of 6 guests onboard *
All charters are private for your group only. I do not mix groups.
- Crab Charters Depart @7am or earlier
- Returns to dock by noon
* All Crab Charters allows you to keep what you legally catch
- Crabbing is restricted to all Maryland Crabbing Regulations
- Maryland Crab Regulations
Chesapeake Blue Crab Charters
Chesapeake Crabbing Charter onboard the Down Time
Come and enjoy a morning on the Chesapeake catching your own Maryland Blue Crab.
We start crabbing at 7am or earlier. No afternoon crabbing.
Our morning crabbing trip will be done with commercial style "Trotline" for the Maryland Blue Crab.
All Equipment, baited line and crabbing license will be provided.
You will help layout a traditional Chesapeake Trot Line and dip your own crabs.
Keep your catch and take home your catch of the day for a Maryland crab feast.
Contact Text or Phone 443-995-8666
Crabbing Charter Info
All Bait, Crabbing license and Equipment provided
Crabbing rates are for the charter, not per person.
Max 6 persons onboard for all charters
Maryland Crabbing Regulations:
Maryland Commercial License # 2982
- Legal start time is 1/2 hour before sunrise till 5 pm
Contact Text or Phone 443-995-8666
Fishing Charters
As an alternative to Crabbing we offer Chesapeake Fishing charters.
Come and enjoy our Sport Fishing Charters on the Maryland Chesapeake Bay.
Fishing Chesapeake Bay for
- Striped Bass
- Blues
- Perch
- and more.
Light Tackle Sport fishing
- Bottom Fishing for Perch, spot, catfish
- Chumming and Live Lining for Striped Bass/Rock
Summer 2025 Crabbing
