Here are Pete and Sam using our old-school method of standard crab line with chicken neck for bait.
Pete had trouble at first, but then once he developed his technique he pulled in 5 consecutive crabs on one piece of bait. We suspect this is likely some sort of local record.
Sam was ready with the net:
Sam caught the first two crabs - and he was the only one to catch two simultaneously on one line:
Here is Pete with his first crab. Whenever we got one, he would run over and help. This help did not involve the net or the hook; he would just tell you if it was male or female:
We also found the second half of the pirate treasure map in one of the nets
Back at the house, gutting the crabs with a little something Pete likes to call Mallet Mash
4 comments:
Uncle Paul would be so proud of your little crabbers. Sounds like they did better than what he does. Also who taught Pete the difference in crabs?
Fun! I never heard of crabbing with a line - we have done it from the boat with a crab trap. when crabbing you can play "baseball" keeping track of how many each person catches.
Did you eat the crabs? they look like blue crabs. Did Pete or Sam eat any crab? Shayna loves crab, its her favorite food (even over lobster).
nice seeing y'all have so much fun crabbing ... hope none of you was crabby after that
Just looked again, now I see the crab trap at the bottom. ;-) the one we had used was more box shaped. we also used chicken as bait.
I love the look on Sam's face in the 4th photo. Pete looks really cute in his blue shirt in the 5th photo.
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