Freighters gone?

[habberdasher]

I just looked at the webcam for Fleming Beach And don’t see the freighters how are we going to know where to fish?

 

[Original]

They’re all stacked up on the east coat, cow bay, Ladysmith....

 

[casper5280]

Everyone pulled their traps so they moved to a new spot where there are more traps. Lol

 

[hippaisland]

I’ve seen guys on the freighters in harbour pulling up traps on back deck. Guess if they time they tide right they can get a trap down for a few hours without the big rig swinging too much.

 

[tubber]

I was in Bristol Bay on a new BC seine boat working as a packer to bring a load of Sockeye back to Vancouver in 1980 and 81. There were Japanese freighter sized vessels rigged up as proccessing ships. When the big tides and crowded gillnetting conditions pushed a gillnet into a big ship's anchor chain, it was comical to see all manner of ingenuity employed to claim the fish suspended between the bow and the surface.
I can see a bored sailor raiding the odd crab trap for sure.