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Chesapeake Crabbing

Catching the Maryland Blue Crab

for your next crab feast

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Chesapeake Crabbing

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Keep what you catch!

Bring home your Maryland Crab Feast

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Charters start June 15 to Oct.

Bring home your Maryland Crab Feast

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Chesapeake Crabbing

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Bring home your Maryland Crab Feast

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Bring home your Maryland Crab Feast

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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.

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Charter Info

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

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Reserve Your Crabbing trip

All Crabbing charters must be scheduled in advance.

Crab Charters will start in June/July and only one trip er day.

All crabbing is done in the morning only.

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.

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Chesapeake Blue Crab Charters

Chesapeake Crabbing

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.

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Crabbing Info

Chesapeake Crabbing

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

Maryland Crab Regulations

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Fishing Charters

Chesapeake Crabbing

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

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Trot Lining for Maryland Blue Crabs

A Family Tradition

A trotline is nothing more than a long line, resting on the bottom and anchored at both ends, to which a series of baits are attached at intervals of about six feet. The baits are attached to the main line by simple slipknots or by shorter lines called dropper lines (known as trots or snoods.)

Watch short video on trot line crabbing.

Its a family tradition!

Fun Crabbing

Crabbing offers a great opportunity for everyone, young and old, to enjoy catching our Maryland blue crab.

Fun Crabbing

Crabbing offers a great opportunity for everyone, young and old, to enjoy catching our Maryland blue crab.

Family Day on the Bay!

Chesapeake crabbing onboard the Down Time with the Markowitz charter.

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Trot Lining for Maryland Blue Crabs

A Family Tradition

Fun Crabbing

Fun Crabbing

Family Day on the Bay!

Chesapeake crabbing onboard the Down Time with the Markowitz charter.

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