Crabbing and a Prison Break

Little one so we let him go

We decided to finally bait the crab traps and see if we could catch some dinner.  Two chicken necks in the large trap netted us six crabs total in a little over 24 hrs.  We put two more (stinky) chicken necks in a smaller trap down the way.  By morning there were 2 crabs in that trap.
 

I had to snap the pic quick as he was FAST towards freedom

When I checked again at noon they had escaped.  Prison break!  I wondered down to the laundry lounge where Tom was watching the British Open to let him know that some of our dinner had escaped.  Caliber Janet was in there as well.  When I announced "bad news, there has been a prison break" she looked up startled and was quickly relieved to find out it was two of our crabs and NOT a real prison break.....the county jail is right across the street.  Ooops -my bad Janet.


Big crabby crab

A third trap was filled with shrimp heads and shells from our shrimp boil Saturday night....YUM by the way.  However the crabs aren't going for it.  Later we did catch one in this trap but they seem to prefer chicken necks to shrimp heads.  We tossed a couple of smaller ones back.  They must be 5 1/2" our expert crabbers tell us.
The final catch =10.  Head on over to Beyond Burgoo Boiling Up Crabs to see how we cooked them up.