Holy Crap... $150 on a bushel of males.

We catch our own or trade stuff with friends that crab. Blue Crabs are kinda a PITA on picking... so an occasional thing only

Did some checking around... Jumbo Jimmies (i.e. large males are $4+/- a crab).

Fugg me... that is just nuts.

Fakebook Marketplace posting (i.e. before the vegans report the guy on cruelty).

Need to put my traps out.

That's insane.

If hard crabs are at that price i'm scared of what soft crabs will run this year.....

I haven’t been crabbing in years

Me either, hanco. Those were the days.. Broke as a $2 Zebco.

Old gf and I used to go out by Tierra Verde near the bridge going out onto the island and set out several lines with chicken backs. String each chicken back to a stick shoved down in the sand. When the stick starts bouncing, slowly reel in the crab gnawing on the chicken back and get them in a dip net. Usually fill up one or two 5 gal buckets in an afternoon. Go back home and spend the next couple hours cleaning them and have a big crab salad feast. Those were the days..

My boy is a crabber in Southern Md. Pretty sure he was getting those prices a couple of years ago.

Do you get big leg pieces like this?




I know it’s not red king crab, but I catch these all summer.





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Yup. I spent a lot of time in Easton in 2019 and 2020 dealing with my father’s situation, and the last steamed bushel I bought in Sept. 2020 was $200. That was the going rate in Easton as well as down the road towards Tilghman.

Worth every penny too. We ate like pigs for a couple of days then froze the rest for later. A quick run in a steamer brings them right back. Got that idea from the lady that runs Chesapeake Landing.

I fished the bridges and causeways around Tierra Verde when I was in High School in the 70s.

On Friday nights we'd stay all night, our parents were use to us fishing there and never questioned our requests to overnite it there.
We'd fish for a while then head over to the Tierra Verde Yacht Club.
There'd be party's on a dozen different yachts on a weekend night.

We'd yacht hop from party to party scoring free drinks all along the way. Once we'd get completely wasted we'd head back and camp under one of the bridges or on out at Fort Desoto.

Great times for fishing and scoring free liquor for us wayward teens.

Same time frame, Jeff. We probably ran across each other out there at some point in the 70's.

Crabbing and fishing was good out there. Used to have a great flounder hole on the channel and caught a chitload of redfish and trout out where the old bomb craters were.

If you know where the inside and outside channels meet, that's a killer spot in a boat. Just be real careful if you try to anchor up. Lots of ghost traps out there. About gave up a nut pulling one up full of sand once. Didn't feel like cutting my anchor line and losing that anchor. Lol.

Good times!

around here $26.00 a pound

Screw that

back to DIY

anyone ever walk seine for shrimp?

Yup, used a push net.

In my opinion, king crab doesn’t hold a candle to dungeness. ESP when you caught and cooked em fresh

Havent had crabs since I got married.

My gun club has an annual all-you-can-eat crab night.
Gets sold out quickly.
It's been cancelled before when the price of blue claws was too high. Would have had to charge $50 pp to make any money for the club. I hope it doesn't come to that this year.

Yup. Got a spot that produces well enough to throw net them.

They were a dollar each here last time I checked. Been about a year.

Geno, your video is schitting the bed for some reason.

I got to admit, I was hesitant opening up this thread.

Commercial blue crab fishermen use a lot of gas.

Take the spaces out and paste it into your browser.

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Facebook videos don't want to imbed for some reason. Like button prolly messed em up - lol.

Clean, cook, and eat same day.

Not working, dude.

Do you have blue claw crabs there, Roger?

Yes blue and stone crabs.

Never had blue...king yes ...to those that have ..how's the taste? ... one of the food shows they were getting a soft shells crab? Then batter and deep fry ...a sandwich with legs...

Best way to do soft shell is with a keen eye and peelers pots... This guy is selling out if anyone has $5k laying around.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/825262568866391/



You can Google for the process on sorting peelers.

Picking blue crabs for crab cakes is a long standing tradition around here for wives and moms... Been that way forever.

I worked Alaska as a very young man for Tanners (i.e. Bairdi and Opilio) and Kings...

Tanners and Kings are super easy to pick and eat.

Most people do not know the difference...

Chesapeake Blue Crabs make better cakes... but are a PITA to pick.

Sidenote... I did a fish cake recipe a while back... pretty good easy chow.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/17233738

NOT crabs, but easy