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Here’s our easy to follow crab guide to help you along with your crab fishing journey.

If you are looking to start a new hobby, spend some good times with family and friends all while providing a swanky feast. Then, you have come to the right place. We will show you everything you need to know about how to catch crabs, clean them and then eat them.

 

In order for you to start off on the right foot there are a few requirements needed to follow this crab guide:

 

  • An Ocean full of crabs –the types of crabs is determined by the area you are in, Blue crabs are easy to find in the Chesapeak Bay but for Dungeness and Red Rock you need to seek them out…

Where To Catch Dungeness Crab

Where to Catch Red Rock Crab

 

  • Either a pier or a boat to crab fish from
  • A crab trap, crab net or crab pot to catch these crustacean sensations…

 

Crab Traps

Once a crab wanders in to check out your crab bait they cannot leave (unless they are undersized, then they can slip through the cracks). The reason why these traps are so successful is becauseread more

 

 

 

  • A rope tied to your crab trap and if your crab fishing from a boat you will also need a floater/buoy
  • The juiciest crab loving food to entice these beauties into your trap…

 

Crab Bait

The going rate for a pair of gills is just shy of a billion dollars. So unless you already possess Aquaman’s superhuman strengths you’re going to need some crabbing bait.Crab bait is the single most fundamental part of this catching crab guide…read more

 

 

  • A bucket or cooler to hold your crab catch until you get home…

 

How to Keep Your Crabs Alive

Crabs deteriorate rapidly. Which means once a crab dies, it immediately starts to decompose. You can get extremely sick from eating a crab that has started to decompose…read more

 

  • Don’t forget a fishing liceanse, you catch the least appealing type of crabs from jail.

 

Now that you have caught crabs and brought them home you are going to need to kill them and cook them…

How To Cook and Kill Crab 101

Visit this page for the full tutorial on how to cook crabs (including individual guides for different types of crabs). We also have a tutorial on cleaning crabs and cooking crab legs. If you have never had experience cooking and cleaning crab then here is a great place to start. How to Cook Crab 101 

 

 

 Or perhaps you just need a how to cook crab refresher and don’t want to waste your time with the whole tutorial shebang…

 

Do you want to clean your crab first before you cook it?

 

Cleaning an already cooked crab is a cinch, we’ll show you how to clean your crabs lickity split…

How to Clean Dungeness Crab

How to Clean Blue Crab

 

 

 

For those of you who don’t care to catch the crabs yourself there are always options for crab legs at your local fishmonger or market. Here we show you how to cook your legs once you get them home.

How To Steam Crab

Cooking Dungeness Crab Legs

Cooking Snow Crab

 

 

 

 

How to Freeze Crab

Once you have boiled or steamed your crab you will want to eat it within 5 days or choose to freeze it for up to four months. Freezing crab is the easiest part of crab fishing…read more

And a few other pages you might find helpful…

Crab Toxins and Why You Should Never Eat Dead Crabs

How to Make Crab Cakes

Imitation Crab, what is it really?

 

 

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Crab Guide
 
 
If you are looking to start a new hobby, spend some good times with family and friends all while providing a swanky feast then let us show you the way, young Crab-I.
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Ingredients
  • An Ocean full of crabs –the types of crabs is determined by the area you are in, Blue crabs are easy to find in the Chesapeak Bay but for Dungeness and Red Rock you need to seek them out.
Method to the Rad-ness
  1. Either a pier or a boat to crab fish from.
  2. A crab trap, crab net or crab pot to catch these crustacean sensation.
  3. A rope tied to your crab trap and if your crab fishing from a boat you will also need a floater/buoy.
  4. The juiciest crab loving food to entice these beauties into your trap.
  5. A bucket or cooler to hold your crab catch until you get home.