When I was in Delaware we’d get chicken necks from grocery stores and use that as crab bait... then got get a buck of blue crabs, pick up a bottle of wine, and some old bay seasoning and steam them and eat ‘em over the next couple of hours...
It is not a quick meal.
We’d fish off the bridges just off the Delaware bay, the crabs come in with the tide so anything but slack water is good. I’d run 4-6 lift baskets that flatten out when they hit the bottom with the chicken necks wired to the center of the basket. Drop them over the bridge in the direction the current is moving and wait about 7 -10 minutes... then check them.
