On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:00:59 -0600, Janet Wilder wrote:

> Steve B wrote:
>> "Janet Wilder" > wrote
>>
>>> My friend and I have not been able to go crabbing as the county is redoing
>>> the lot and boat ramp where we put in to crab. He promised me that as soon
>>> as it's open, we'll go crabbing. Texas blue crabs are every bit as good as
>>> their northern cousins. Of course, being Texas crabs, they are bigger :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Janet Wilder
>>> Way-the-heck-south Texas
>>> Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
>>
>> I lived in Galveston and Seabrook, and southern Louisiana. Yep, them big
>> blues are good. We used to stop by the shrimpers on our way home from
>> working offshore and get shrimp for $1 a pound (nice ones) and big clean
>> blue crabs for $1 a dozen. But catching them with chicken necks and beef
>> melt was a lot of fun, too. Ever smack an alligator on top of the head with
>> a crab net? I have.
>
> If I ever saw an alligator where we crab, it would be my last crabbing
> trip ----ever!!
>
> We usually drop a half-dozen or so traps baited with chicken legs on our
> way out then sit anchored and jig with chicken legs. The place where we
> go has lots of wonderful birds, including a flock of roseate spoonbills,
> to watch while Cliff regales me with tales of his years in the Coast Guard.
>
> Then we go and pick up the traps and come back to his place where either
> I take a bunch of them home or he boils them all up with Old Bay and I
> call DH to come on over and bring the Carvel Hall and the beer. Cliff's
> wife puts newspaper on the picnic table and we all feast.

no boil, steam.

your pal,
blake