Crabbing

bowman316

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Re: Crabbing

man, you talkin about blue crabs?

I will have to crab up there.
 

bowman316

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Re: Crabbing

i think crab meat taste 10 times better than lobster meat, lobster meat is just bland.
Maybe if they steamed lobsters with old bay, they would taste better.
 

hubbard53

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Re: Crabbing

i think crab meat taste 10 times better than lobster meat, lobster meat is just bland.
Maybe if they steamed lobsters with old bay, they would taste better.

i am starting to get turned off from crab. Lately, whenever i buy frozen crab legs, i thrown a quarter of them out b/c they were rotting prior to being frozen.

I have to boil rather than steam or otherwise they taste/smell like ammonia. Maybe I am just getting too spoiled?
 

bowman316

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Re: Crabbing

BIG difference between snow crab legs, and MD blue crabs.

But i like crab legs too, a lot of meat on them
 

pinkham89

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Re: Crabbing

taint nothin though like a good ol lobsta bake where they come outta the water, go straight into a pot of boiling salt water followed by a dip in melted butter......... MMMMMMMMMMM


either that or a mess of spider crabs.....
 

floatingwoody2006

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Re: Crabbing

All you can eat every sunday at the chinese buffet in so. portland pinkham..13 bucks. Yum!! waay less than making the trip.
 

pinkham89

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Re: Crabbing

what is that? the great wall? china rose?

i dunno.... ive seen how seafood gets pre-cooked for the resturants *shudders* so i never eat it unless i see it go in the pot
 

bowman316

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Re: Crabbing

anyone catchin any crabs yet in the bay?
i saw a road side stand sellin live crabs today, they must have came from the southern bay in VA.
 

mthieme

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Re: Crabbing

Waaay too early up at this end. They start hitting mid-June, but I usually wait 'til mid-July.
I put the crabbing skiff in the drink yesterday though - I'm psyched now!
 

bowman316

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Re: Crabbing

when do you think the crabs hit the costal bays around OC, MD?
I will be goin down june 19 to assatuge island. I would like to catch a few dozen to eat at night. Cook em over a wood fire in the grill pit. that would take skill keeping the flame hot enough to keep the water boiling, but not too hot.
 

David Greer

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Re: Crabbing

steam them instead of boiling. Not only better but easier if you're cooking out.
June 19 you will have lots of crabs at assateague. Convert squid/bloodworms to croaker, croaker to crab. As I say to my vegan friends, I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat tofu.
 

bowman316

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Re: Crabbing

i usually just use chicken necks on a trot line.
but i have no clue of where the crab will be, i guess on ledges near coves and inlets
 

i386

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Re: Crabbing

That's a funny story. Maybe it wanted to use the flip flop as a CFD?:p

It's amazing how hard those little boogers can pinch. I picked up a fiddler crab when I was little. As you all are probably aware, fiddler crabs have only one large claw. Well, it's large enough to appear out of proportion to a fiddler crab. Compared to other crabs it's still small. I underestimated the strength of that little claw and that ended my curiosity with those things right then and there.
 
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