Should I crab at outer banks?

[Ja Rhule]

Just find out they have loads of blue crab. Crab net is dirt cheap. Anyone done it?

[KSpan]

I've always tried to avoid getting crabs, but whatever floats your boat.

[Jeremy Igo]

Heck yeah. Fresh blue crab is awesome.

[sharkkiller]

We used to go crabbing with turkey necks tied to a string. It was pretty fun, but I guess a net would be more efficient.

 

I used to have a casting net that I took to the beach. I used to catch shrimp and crabs in it. I also caught a flounder once.

[PandaPancake]

Blue crabs are dirt cheap and caught that day at most restaurants

[h0llywood]

Are you referring to Dungeness crabs? They're illegal to catch here in California and only allowed to catch Rock Crabs.

 

I'm driving up to Sacramento and San Francisco for Memorial Day and going crabbing at the San Francisco Municipal pier. Tons of crabs there. If you get caught with a "blue crab" it's a $1,000 fine per crab.

[Ja Rhule]

Are you referring to Dungeness crabs? They're illegal to catch here in California and only allowed to catch Rock Crabs.

I'm driving up to Sacramento and San Francisco for Memorial Day and going crabbing at the San Francisco Municipal pier. Tons of crabs there. If you get caught with a "blue crab" it's a $1,000 fine per crab.

Legal in North Carolina. You don't even need license if u crab at private property.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

I went out crabbing on the OB when I was a kid. We had a big plastic bucket, a string and a chicken drumstick and we caught one after another until this huge bucket was almost overflowing.

 

These things would clamp down on the chicken and literally try to fight you for it and play tug of war as you dragged them in. Then we'd just pick it up off the ground and shake it over the bucket until they fell off. It was comical just how stubborn and easy to catch these things were.

[h0llywood]

I find it weird that crabs like chicken

[Jeremy Igo]

I find it weird that crabs like chicken

They spend all day picking through fish crap.

If a tasty piece of chicken was available would you let go?

[Jimmy]

Grab a crab basket too and let it sit overnight with some bait in it...I promise you will have 2-4 (maybe more) when you wake up to check it.

[h0llywood]

They spend all day picking through fish crap.

If a tasty piece of chicken was available would you let go?

I guess everyone/thing loves chicken. in fact I'm eating fried chicken right now

[Inimicus]

I'm over it after almost 50 years in NC. But if you've never caught a bucket full of crabs and taken them home to boil them in old bay you haven't lived.

Do it!

And revel in the joyous goodness!

[h0llywood]

So certain crabs are protected because of the color of their shell?

That's racist.

Definitely racist on the red crabs.