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05-24-2016, 09:20 PM | #1 |
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Let's talk crab!
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05-24-2016, 09:39 PM | #2 |
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I have been wanting to do this. I skipped lobster season, because I simply wasn't properly outfitted and daytime is a better time for me in general as a novice. There's a couple things holding me back:
1. I heard that the only usable meat on a rock crab is in the claws and forearms. It feels a little wasteful for my liking if this is accurate. 2. I'm not looking forward to Eco-vigilantes assuming I'm poaching lobster. Does that ever happen to anyone? |
05-24-2016, 09:58 PM | #3 | |
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Out of curiosity, but does anyone know if we can break off the claws and just harvest that? Should be no right? Last edited by King Saba; 05-25-2016 at 12:30 AM. |
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05-24-2016, 11:31 PM | #4 |
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Can't keep just the claws. No way to verify size of the crab.
Dave-there's meat in the body but definitely takes some work. Much less yield than d-crab. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk |
05-25-2016, 06:48 AM | #5 |
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There is a fair amount of meat in the shoulder area. I normally go lobstering with a friend from the Philippines. We have a deal that he gets the heads I get the claws and some heads for the shoulder meat..
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05-25-2016, 07:38 AM | #6 |
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Do you use regular lobster nets for crabs?
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05-25-2016, 08:03 AM | #7 |
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I asked DFW about just taking one of the claws and letting the crab go, like they do in Florida, but was told I had to bring the crab in and take the claws off on shore.
However, they didn't say I had to kill the crab, I figure if I keep the crabs alive, bring them to shore, take one claw, leaving one intact, I have fulfilled the requirements of the rule. There is nothing in the rules that say I have to take both claws or can't release them after that. I could be mistaken on that though...
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05-25-2016, 08:26 AM | #8 |
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It will take a long time to grow the other claw, if the crab does not die from starvation. I would keep the entire crab.
Spider crabs are great to eat. If you do not have a lobster in possession, no one can fault you. |
05-25-2016, 08:36 AM | #9 |
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Yeah we hoop crab too once in a while...
That being said usually the crab fishing is great but the past couple of years have sucked! They're still around but are probably running deeper than normal. When they are around, it's a crab bonanza! Nobody seems to care when they are though...which is great for they guys that want'em, like ME!
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05-25-2016, 09:34 AM | #10 |
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I have done it and plan to do more, when I can get on the water .
great recon for lobster season. They hang out in the same neighborhoods. |
05-25-2016, 09:54 AM | #11 |
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Great video, neat to see what goes on down there
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05-25-2016, 03:39 PM | #12 |
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that video is pretty cool.
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05-26-2016, 07:10 AM | #13 |
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Crabs?
Did somebody say CRABS...?
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05-26-2016, 08:07 AM | #14 |
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Cool videos! Man I got to get out there and some of those tasty critters!
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05-26-2016, 08:25 AM | #15 | |
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Crabs are totally worth it! If we got as much meat out of a crab as you do a lobster...I'd just throw the lobster back! Crab meat is definitely KING! I always tell people...Spider crabs taste as good as they are ugly...and they are pretty ugly. Don't believe me...try one...just make sure they are big!
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05-26-2016, 03:45 PM | #16 | |
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05-26-2016, 09:05 PM | #17 |
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For rock crabs, I wouldn't keep anything under 6 inches (measuring the body). It's just too much work for so little.
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