On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 4:56:38 AM UTC-7, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:41:51 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 6:49:23 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:22:47 -0400,
wrote:

She's a bit small for tonging oyster, and the gunwales arn't wide enough to stand on for tonging

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Did you mean not high enough? I've never seen anyone stand on the
gunwhales when tonging, more often leaning against them.

same here

www.floridamemory.com/items/show/123012

Like I said I did it for a living, but not in Fl. maybe they do it different in Fl? Looks the same to me, I worked my CB Deadrise on the James river tonging oysters with my boat.

Like this? Looks like it might even be on the James.

http://tinyurl.com/l42uyw5

Googling 'chesapeake bay oyster tongs' will show pics of folks doing it both ways.

Exactly like that with the cullboard amidship, We used a shot of chain off the bow to keep the boat steady in the current to work the bottom, then when we worked over a spot we'd use the tongs to push the boat backwards to get a new piece of bottom.

My old boat at the time was a 35' round stern CB deadrise with a chevy 350 that I worked out of Rescue Va in the winter, In the spring I'd put the hydraulic pot hauler on it then crabbed out in the bay for sook (female) crab and around June I'd pull my pots and head up the river to chase the jimmy (male) crabs.