Chelle Gentemann sent in this photo of three successful crabbers. Yesterday, Austin and Bennet White and Jake Rogers caught 16 Dungeness from a boat inside Tomales Bay. From the photo, it appears that they were near Marker #5. That's a pretty good start to a much-delayed season!
These guys got invited to a post-crabbing party. If you have similar guests, it is recommended that you either A, clean them before cooking them, or B, at least discard your water after boiling your crabs and not use it for anything else. The guts can have higher levels of domoic acid and there's no point in eating extra if you can avoid it. Also, red and rock crab are not invited as their season is still closed.
I never clean my crabs before cooking. You loose flavor. Me and my friends cook the crabs alive. We cook them in sea water and then clean them. No crab butter for us. Yum.
ReplyDeleteare any crab being taken from the pier?
ReplyDeleteThe crabs are hard, and big, lots of meat. Fish in 200 feet out from and a little north of the jingle bell. We had over 30 crabs after pulling three of our six traps.Use lots of salt in the boil water. These first crabs of the long waited for season are "Tasty"
ReplyDeleteI ate some fresh crab Saturday, Sunday and today, and only got minor drain bamage.
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