What Is This Man Doing?

What is this man doing? Possibly fishing? But for what? (Click to enlarge)Give up?The other day I grabbed a couple of cameras and drove to a couple of places I used to visit quite often. I hadn’t been there is a couple of years and I wanted to see what I could find to photograph. They used to have a plethora of interesting subjects. I spotted the man, in the image above, slowly walking through the water, holding a net and dragging some sort of floating device behind him. I’ve seen this before but this is not a common sight. Of course, I made a number of exposures of him. But what is he doing?He is ‘crabbing’ by hand using a classic technique known as hand-lining (affectionately called "chicken-necking"). Instead of deploying traditional stationary crab pots or commercial gear, he is actively wading in shallow water to target blue crabs. The crab is in the net. He will move the crab to the floatingbasket and return the line and bait to the water.(click to enlarge)For those of you who…