Crab Park Dinner

Got a wild hair late this afternoon to drop my gear for a quick soak right at high tide.  I cruised to Crab Park and got two square pots in the water at 4:20 baited with 16 oz. orange juice bottles filled with rotted chicken flesh.  I loaded the yak back up in the truck and headed back to Loleta to get my cell phone and help my Dad out for a minute, then jammed back down right after sunset and got back in the water.  I wanted to soak 'em longer, but wifey had to get on the road for niece's basketball game so I had the kids at 5:30 sharp.  So a 40 minute soak picked up a couple dozen little guys in the closer pot and two bigger ones, one of them legal, in the second pot.  Dinner for me and the kids - they went from "I don't like crab!" to "MORE!"   

"-they went from "I don't like crab!" to "MORE!" "   

We were thinking the same as we ate those many legged mudbugs.   We had garlic butter available but the crab just tasted so good that we didn't require any extra flavoring.

Oh the delicious crunchy horror around the campfire.   Next time I'm going to try olive oil and lime juice.   Heh.

thats how to post a POST!!  i don't even like crab and you made it look and sound good&fun AK!   keep it up!

....i been 0 for 3 on just trying to get out without that WIND the last two weekends....weah !

My Kids don't like the sight of a squirming CRAB but once I cook and peel the crab, My daughter eats it faster than I can shuck. She's only five but can devour an entire dungy. Eric did you pull your pot or drop it back for a longer soak. I wonder how much protection the estuary would have for dropping pots in this weather. I'm already running out of crab again.

Eric did you pull your pot or drop it back for a longer soak. I wonder how much protection the estuary would have for dropping pots in this weather. I'm already running out of crab again.

Gear would be subject to so many tides changes that it would be either disappear or get sanded in most likely, Hawk.  I don't leave gear down there when I'm not actively crabbing.

Eric