Blue Crabs!

by equippedsaint

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  1. Did you get those locally or shipped from somewhere?

  2. letsbepandas

    Look at the rusty boy on the right! I want to go crabbing now haha

  3. supertucci

    I spent my youth fishing for blue crabs. On Friday night, I’d go to the grocery store and use my own money to buy like $.60 worth of crab backs. Then I would leave them out overnight in the Virginia heat and then in the morning I would tie literally a piece of twine to the chicken throw it into the water and then you gently pull them back in because they crabs won’t stop eating even when you’re pulling the line in slowly. I probably caught my first crab when I was seven.

    Later (age 10?) I use my own money to buy two crab traps which was much easier. Same bait. Saturday morning I’d throw it in and by Saturday at lunch I usually had enough for at least me to have a crab lunch and sometimes the rest of my family lol. It was glorious.

  4. salallane

    My favorite! I’m in Dungeness land, which is amazing, but blue crabs will always win in my mind.

  5. chrstnasu

    Yum! I miss going to Chincoteague and fishing for Maryland crabs.

  6. RoosterLazy219

    blue crabs make the best pasta sauce imo love em

  7. AKA_alonghardKnight

    You need to get those crabs treated… To a bath in boiling liquid with old bay seasoning. =D

  8. HolidayLoquat8722

    Nice, few of em look nice and dirty too. Usually this time of year there all lights

  9. Blue crabs are having a really tough time right now. Please don’t harvest the females. Especially in NC

  10. 6Foot2EyesOfBlue1973

    Ive crabbed the infamous Wye River off the Chesapeake numerous times years ago. We’d get there at the crack of dawn and have a bushell of Jumbo males by lunch time- by hand lining. It was a lot of fun, and we’d have a family crab feast at home aftewards. I miss that so much. Crab prices have got pretty expensive to even buy them anymore sadly.

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