McMudpuddle

We just returned from a great week at the coast. Stayed with the family and some friends at South Beach State park. Had two fish-able high tides each day, plus the tide swing was around 4 feet, so the crabbing was nearly always an option.

The Jetty fishing was better as the week progressed and the high tide got later in the day. We busted em good Tuesday night on curly tail jigs, nearly anything dark worked. The hole poking with bait was just OK, nothing like years past.
Crabbing off the public dock was good, we ate crab every day and I had crab cakes for lunch today. Only two rings and stayed just long enough to get two or three keepers each time we went out. Bloody, fresh Tuna carcass was the key to success on the crab, those without, went without! The brew bub at the end of the dock is real hard to walk by without going in.....

18406ej

Thanks for the report- I know what you mean about the magnetic pull of the pub!

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FishSchooler

Good crabbin=good eatin! Chicken is the only thing we've used, and it always works! Go to winco and buy some chicken breasts, its like 5 bucks for 10 or something. It looks to fancy, but you gotta get the juice at the bottom, little pads are there to absorb blood, and that stuff, just put the breasts into a big plastic bowl, then squeeze the napkin mat thing so that all the juices go into the breasts, then take a knife or fork and stab it so the juices go in. I think without any kind of blood or chicken juice, the crabs wont go get it cause it dont smell!

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