Popular Post MickinMD ★ Posted January 21, 2020 Popular Post Share #1 Posted January 21, 2020 There's a PBS Show called "Travelscope" and right now it's covering the Gulf Coast of Texas. The host and guide are rowing in kayaks and the guide sticks a big net into the water and catches a blue crab. That's highly possible, but what happens next is not. The net is made of string. The guide dumps the crab out of the net. NO! In Maryland, the first thing you do when you buy a string net for crabbing is rip the string out and replace it with metal chicken wire in the shape of a wide-open net. A live crab will grab the string with its claws and fins and you'll have a very hard time getting it out - likely ripping the net in the process. It can't grab the metal and twist it around like the string and the metal doesn't break when you shake the crab out of the net. Next, the Travelscope guide picks the crab up by its shell and the places it on his palm! NO! He'd have a claw cutting his finger almost instantly - they're not slow like the lobsters I banded working a day with a Maine lobsterman, blue crabs are extremely quick. The way to pick up a live Blue Crab is to grab it by it's entire back-fin, the large "paddle fin" and put your thumb and index finger against its shell so it can't move the fin around - I found some pictures with a Google search below. When you're a kid in Maryland you get scolded by your parents for terrorizing your siblings and friends by threatening them as in the last picture - there are thorn-sharp, painful points on the ends of those claws! Those Travelscope guys were clearly b.s.'ing us with a dead crab - and dead crabs are never steamed/cooked - you throw them away! 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 22, 2020 Share #2 Posted January 22, 2020 What Mick said. Blue crabs are bad ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted January 22, 2020 Share #3 Posted January 22, 2020 I got my blue crabs in Delaware this September. Yummy. But we’re hands were raw after an hour wrestling with them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 22, 2020 Share #4 Posted January 22, 2020 7 minutes ago, BuffJim said: I got my blue crabs in Delaware this September. Yummy. But we’re hands were raw after an hour wrestling with them. Were you in Leipsic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted January 22, 2020 Share #5 Posted January 22, 2020 8 minutes ago, Airehead said: Were you in Leipsic? Yep. For lunch. Stayed in Rehoboth Beach. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 22, 2020 Share #6 Posted January 22, 2020 ...when I was a kid, we used trot lines with chicken parts and those string dip nets to take crabs. Getting them out of the net and into the 5 gallon bucket was part of the adventure. I can even remember wading around in the weeds near Chesapeake Beach and catching them as they dodged away. It wasn't very efficient, but we were kids so it didn't matter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 22, 2020 Share #7 Posted January 22, 2020 Mick we already talked about this today. Get real, this is not real. It’s reality tv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 22, 2020 Share #8 Posted January 22, 2020 ...when I was a lad, we had no reality TV. Me dad made us make do with reality. But we were 'appy in those days. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 22, 2020 Share #9 Posted January 22, 2020 12 minutes ago, BuffJim said: Yep. For lunch. Stayed in Rehoboth Beach. Some people won’t eat at Sambo’s because they think it is racist name. I think Sambo was someone’s nickname not a slur. It is a dive bar. Pure and simple. Food is often good but occasionally it sucks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapr ★ Posted January 22, 2020 Share #10 Posted January 22, 2020 It was not Blue Crabs. It was Bleu Krabs. Like Chiken of the sea 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapr ★ Posted January 22, 2020 Share #11 Posted January 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Airehead said: Some people won’t eat at Sambo’s because they think it is racist name. I think Sambo was someone’s nickname not a slur. It is a dive bar. Pure and simple. Food is often good but occasionally it sucks. There was a chain of Sambo's here in the PNW. Breakfast joint but open 24 hours. It had a black boy on the logo. It was racist. They are all closed now or changed the name 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share #12 Posted January 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Page Turner said: ...when I was a kid, we used trot lines with chicken parts and those string dip nets to take crabs. Getting them out of the net and into the 5 gallon bucket was part of the adventure. I can even remember wading around in the weeds near Chesapeake Beach and catching them as they dodged away. It wasn't very efficient, but we were kids so it didn't matter. Back in the 60's and 70's, you knew someone was a real friend if they told you where on the Chesapeake Bay you could "push" for crabs- walking and catching them as they scurried around. We each had a old car inner tube tied to a string which we tied to our belt. We sat a bushel basket in the inner tube and a bucket of bay water on the shore for soft crabs. On a good summer's day, two of would get to the spot by 5:30 am and by noon we'd have 2 bushels of hard crabs and 1-2 dozen soft crabs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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