blue crabs

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Crap straight out of the salt water and into the cooking pot. It just doesn't get much better than that. As with all sea food, fresh is soooo much better.
 
Dave":a7u0y0i8 said:
Crap straight out of the salt water and into the cooking pot. It just doesn't get much better than that. As with all sea food, fresh is soooo much better.
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Sorry friend, but it gets a WHOLE LOT better than that! We don't eat that stuff here in Alabama.
 
Good luck. Hope you don't get rained out. The times I went it was real hot and I didn't catch many. I ended up buying some from The Crab Man down in Cameron. I caught quite a few at Dalphin Island, Alabama with a crab trap right off the beach. That was a lot of fun.
 
One of my memories was back in the summer '81 after graduating high school. I went with a good friend to his granddads in Valona GA. His grandad was said to be a Captain and well into his later years but still self sufficient. He didn't say much at all.

I spent 2 or 3 night there I can't exactly recall but woke up one morning a wee bit hung over before my buddy and went down stairs and outside to get the feast of my life on crabs he had boiled. We sat and I ate and we talked. He was short on words.

I think he was saddened by the fact his grandson didn't make it down for the event.

Thanks for digging up a good memory.
 
I don't understand one cotton pickin' thing about this thread.

Have had a lot of crabs in my day but they have never been big enough to eat.

Heck I can hardly see those little critters, much less tell what color they are.

And yes, they have all been given to me by girls mostly in Florida.............

Somebody clue me in? :shock:
 
The only blue crabs I tried to eat were sofshells. They were smashed flat and deepfried I think. Couln;t get past the look of "cow pie" that the evoked.
 
I have never eaten blue crab or soft shell. But I have had more than my share of Dungeness. When I worked in Alaska we ate lots of Tanner (or Snow crab) and a couple of times King crab. There is no comparing the King crab you get in a restaurant to fresh.

One time I was working on an island north of Kodiak. We tossed out a crab pot off a little beach. Some of us went to building a fire on the beach while a couple of brave souls ran a skiff across 20 miles to Kodiak on a beer run. By the time they got back it took three of us to pull the crab pot off the bottom. It was over flowing with crab. Sat around on the beach all day eating fresh crab and drinking cold beer. Thought we had died and gone to heaven. The bears were even nice and stayed away that day.
 
I've eaten dungeness crabs onetime, thats good stuff. Can't say they taste better, but you do get more meat out of them.
We don't have to worry about the bears, but sometimes the mosquitos can just about carry you away.
 
Dungeness is a Pacific crab as far as I know. You get them off the Oregon, Washington, BC, and Alaska coast. I don't think they are south to California. Commercially they are caught in pots set up to a mile or two off shore. I catch them surf fishing on the coast or fishing off the jetty at Grays Harbor. A person can pot fish them in areas that have boat access.
 

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