Should I crab at outer banks?

[jrc1106]

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.

You have to have a comm liscense to use a basket. Open nets and strings are ok for rec guys, though.

Go for it, and pray you get some softshells.

[Jimmy]

You have to have a comm liscense to use a basket. Open nets and strings are ok for rec guys, though.

Go for it, and pray you get some softshells.

 

True but you can get an Annual Coastal Recreational Fishing License for only $15.  .Takes 15 minutes at Walmart.

[jrc1106]

True but you can get an Annual Coastal Recreational Fishing License for only $15. .Takes 15 minutes at Walmart.

Last I read the Annual Recreational License didn't cover fully enclosed traps, you had to purchase the $60 commercial license. With the rec one you could only use lines or open nets. I haven't looked into it in a couple of years, though.

[PandaPancake]

Blue crabs are everywhere. Especially in Chesapeake bay. Someone didn't carry the one or left a zero off the estimated number of blue crabs it turned out to be hundreds of millions not tens of millions

[Jeremy Igo]

Screw restrictions. Eat them sumbitches till they're extinct. If Blue Crabs don't wanna get eaten they should stop being so tasty.

Like prostitutes.

[Ja Rhule]

 

Recreational Crab Fishing 

N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries 

 

 

Recreational harvest limits 

 

 5-inch minimum size limit for males and immature females. 

 6 ¾ -inch maximum size limit for females from Sept. 1-April 30 

 50 crabs per day per person, not to exceed 100 crabs per vessel per day. 

 Size limit is measured from tip-to-tip of the carapace 

 

Information on how to identify male and female crabs can be found at 

http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/blue-crabs 

 

License requirements 

 

Individuals do not need a license to set one pot per person from a private pier or shoreline, so 

long as he has permission of the property owner. A private pier or shoreline means there is no 

public access and does not apply to fishing piers where the public pays for fishing privileges. 

Recreational harvest limits apply. Sale of catch is prohibited. No buoy or identification required. 

 

Individuals do not need a license for chicken necking or legging. Recreational harvest limits 

apply. Sale of catch is prohibited. 

 

Individuals do not need a license to use collapsible crab traps so long as the largest open 

dimension is no larger than 18 inches and the traps are designed to collapse at all times when in 

the water, except when they are being retrieved from or lowered to the bottom. Recreational 

harvest limits apply. Sale of catch is prohibited. 

 

 

http://portal.ncdenr.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=2704a0d9-1d02-4b9f-a548-c1f8a0fab26f&groupId=38337

[thefuzz]

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

 

Go buy a pot, not a net and find some deep water sound side that you can get to.

 

You probably want to be in about 5-8 feet of water, no less than a couple feet at dead low tide.

 

Use cut mullet, or the heads of the fish that you catch during the day.  You can leave them out there for up to 48 hours, but I wouldn't do that.

 

I drop my pots around noon and pick them up the following day around 3-4, clean them and either steam/boil them or fry them up.

 

You don't have to kill them right away if you want to do a "boil" later in the week, just put them in a bucket and keep them wet, they will live that that for a couple days.

 

They are a little tough to clean and pick, but the meat is fantastic, and it's perfect to go along with friends and beer.

[dave-o]

We always used the cage but I will offer up a pro tip....  If you rub their bellies it makes them pass out and easier to get loose from the cage and easier to handle all around....

[Ja Rhule]

Go buy a pot, not a net and find some deep water sound side that you can get to.

You probably want to be in about 5-8 feet of water, no less than a couple feet at dead low tide.

Use cut mullet, or the heads of the fish that you catch during the day. You can leave them out there for up to 48 hours, but I wouldn't do that.

I drop my pots around noon and pick them up the following day around 3-4, clean them and either steam/boil them or fry them up.

You don't have to kill them right away if you want to do a "boil" later in the week, just put them in a bucket and keep them wet, they will live that that for a couple days.

They are a little tough to clean and pick, but the meat is fantastic, and it's perfect to go along with friends and beer.

I got this on Amazon. Has awesome reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001449I2M/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1432309031&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX200_QL40&keywords=crab+fishing&dpPl=1&dpID=51moFcnCimL&ref=plSrch

[Hawk]

mis read the title...thought it said you got crabs from Arthur Blank

[thefuzz]

I got this on Amazon. Has awesome reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001449I2M/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1432309031&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX200_QL40&keywords=crab+fishing&dpPl=1&dpID=51moFcnCimL&ref=plSrch

 

You will catch some like that, but not likely enough to feed multiple folks.

 

Attached is what we use, we put out 4 or 5 during the week, and have a crab boil on Friday or Saturday nights.

[PandaPancake]

You will catch some like that, but not likely enough to feed multiple folks.

Attached is what we use, we put out 4 or 5 during the week, and have a crab boil on Friday or Saturday nights.crab-pot.jpg

My invite to dinner must have been lost...

[dave-o]

You will catch some like that, but not likely enough to feed multiple folks.

 

Attached is what we use, we put out 4 or 5 during the week, and have a crab boil on Friday or Saturday nights.crab-pot.jpg

 

 

The one we always used was like a pyramid but it laid flat when it hit the bottom...  When you pulled the chord it would go into a pyramid and trap those little bastards in there.... 

[h0llywood]

Just got back from crabbing at the San Francisco pier. Caught about 20 crabs of different variations. I couldn't tell the difference between Dungeness and Rock crab so I walked down and talked to some park rangers and asked them to see if they can guide me on what is legal and illegal. In short, half of the crabs I caught were illegal. Made me throw them back into the ocean. He stated that the only reason he didn't fine me $1,000 was because I sought him out instead of being caught. Dungeness crabs have white claws and anything with black claws you can have. Needless to say, I'm cooking the ones I got back right now.