dungies/sand crabs

Been seeing a lot of dungies in the edge of the surfline when going out surfing at OB lately -- mostly females and shorts, but one last night would have been a keeper. It seems like they're showing up earlier and in greater numbers this year or maybe its just wishful thinking for a good season coming up.

There's also a crazy number of sand crabs out there as well. For weeks now they've been so thick just inside the surfline that it's painful on the feet to walk out to surf. It's like a 4' wide band of them in the sand. Way more than I've ever noticed in a decade or so of surfing OB.

Didn't someone post that they're edible -- corn starched and deep fried? It'd be easy to get a really big meal of them, but they just don't look appetizing. But if anyone's interested they're out there.

Cheers

Where is OB? Are sand crabs subject to quantity limit applied to other crabs? Don't mean to be greedy, but 10 or 20 sand crabs would not make much of a meal. It would be fun trying them out though.

Must be the lack of perch and stripers.  Lol

OB is ocean beach in San Francisco

Countin down the days till Dungeness crab opener!

Sand crabs are good beer bites. The same way you make salt n pepper shrimp fried. Thanks for the heads up. Gonna go get a few buckets!