So when we go, we catch some real monsters. “What we do is go out on the reserve itself it’s illegal to crab commercially there. “Let me tell you, these crabs are so plentiful it’s unreal,” Lake said. Bill Lake takes a break from fishing to go crabbing, he prefers Point-aux-Chene WMA southeast of Houma. Guillot, talking about the crabbing pier where he and his family were catching their crabs said the island is perfect.Ĭrowded or not, there is plenty of room on Marsh Island and many of the other recreational areas the department has set up for crabbing or throwing a cast net for shrimp. Moise Guillot, who has a camp on Cypremort Point, was also out on Marsh Island with his family the day I spoke with Scully. But on the other hand, their daring inquisitiveness and emotional brush with something they deemed dangerous made them more confident with each afternoon encounter. On one hand, they would have this sort of apprehension that comes with getting pinched by a blue crab. The one thing that made our afternoon trips to the bayou in back of the trailer park so special all those years ago was the daily excitement of the kids. “But, once you get into the warmer summer months of June, July and August it’s usually pretty good.” Sometimes it depends on if they’re running. “Sometimes you have freshwater that has saltwater influence. “Crabbing depends on where you’re at recreationally,” Marx said. In fact, all across Louisiana’s coastline there are so much public crabbing opportunities you just might need an increase in your budget for a new wardrobe.Īnd the mid-summer months tend to be the best when it comes to recreational crabbing, according to LDWF Crustacean Biologist Jeff Marx. The island has several weirs and water-control structures the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has set up for recreational crabbing and shrimping. And all of us caught our 12 dozen limits that day.” “I came out here with my brother and godchild,” Scully said. While dumping some pretty crabs he just caught into a basket, Scully said he’d had trips like the one that family was enjoying. Someone I happened to strike up a conversation with while out on the island was Howard Scully, a native of Morgan City who resides in Baton Rouge.
There we were, with not one piece of chicken or crab bait in the boat to switch to a plan B.Īnd that family was catching the tasty crustaceans like nobody’s business. With nothing more than a few pieces of string, plenty of chicken and dip nets, they were catching crabs - the pretty blue-clawed kind. With the intent of catching a few fish, we arrived at one of the island’s many weirs, where several families were having a blast. Last summer, I made a trip to Marsh Island with a couple of buddies in search of some clear water.
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