Box Crab....

Anyone ever target our local box crabs? Years ago once in a great while we used to pick them up on scuba gear. It seems like they don't school up the way other crab do. Best local species of crab I've ever had. Any tips or even regulations on them? I'm having a hard time finding anything about them on the DFG website.

But if I was going after crab on a kayak I'd really prefer targetting them as opposed to the other available species.


Jeff

Jeff,
Does the box crab taste better than a dungeness?

Also, what type of terrain are they found?  rock?  Shallow or Deep?  N, Central or Socal?

I googled it and it looks UUUGGLY!!!

Stuart

one was recently captured:
http://www.spearboard.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30644

I don't think they're common though.

Jeff,
Does the box crab taste better than a dungeness?

Also, what type of terrain are they found?  rock?  Shallow or Deep?  N, Central or Socal?

I googled it and it looks UUUGGLY!!!

Stuart

Stuart,

I think it tastes better than the dungeness, but to me the dungeness still taste kind of muddy like a rock crab. Don't know much about them though, we always picked them up on the North Coast but I haven't done much diving anywhere else but the North Coast. Not usually deep 40 to 60ft., but very rarely have I ever come across them on a sandy bottom almost always in rocky structure. The other great thing about them is all the meat. One nice box crab will usually yield about as much meat as a couple dungeness because they are such thickly built crabs.

Jeff