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Actually he is a Loudmouth, has a little more fight than a largemouth but I think some of that is just the shape causing more drag.
Am I a largemouth or smallmouth? ... What's your best guess???
Have you ever had blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay?
I've never met anyone who prefers the blue over dungenous.
(I'm pretty sure they are invasive)
Nah, that one just wants more attention... usually why they act up like that.Extremely!! They've been quite devestating to what our crab population used to be many years ago. Redrock will actually eat dungeness. Important tip... if you're keeping both species... keep them in seperate containers or the redrock will go to town pulling off the dungeness's legs.
They don't have much meat in them. The bodies are hardly worth cracking unless they are quite large. Even then the body meat is probably less than 1/3rd of what you will get out of a dungeness. Shell's are hard as rock, however, they DO eat quite well.
One of my kids actually prefer redrock to dungeness (mighta dropped that one on his head as an infant), but the rest of just like to mix a little in to spice it up a bit.
The one I got a few weeks ago was pretty tastey, and was getting close to filled out... you're right tho, the best time for crab is winter.
As far a red rock crab go, kill'em all!
(I'm pretty sure they are invasive)
Extremely!! They've been quite devestating to what our crab population used to be many years ago. Redrock will actually eat dungeness. Important tip... if you're keeping both species... keep them in seperate containers or the redrock will go to town pulling off the dungeness's legs.
They don't have much meat in them. The bodies are hardly worth cracking unless they are quite large. Even then the body meat is probably less than 1/3rd of what you will get out of a dungeness. Shell's are hard as rock, however, they DO eat quite well.
One of my kids actually prefer redrock to dungeness (mighta dropped that one on his head as an infant), but the rest of just like to mix a little in to spice it up a bit.
ODFW Recreational Crab Fishing, red rock crab
They are actually native and part of the fossil record.
Learn something new every day! Thanks for sharing. Guess I "learnt" it from the wrong people and being commonly called the Japanese redrock crab made it easy to assume they were correct... that they "were" invasive.
Still... they DO go to town on dungeness. I knowed it that there much first hand.
That was in Nehalem bay?
You must be referring to Stone Crabs in FL or some other species. That isn't how Blue Crabs are harvested. We eat the entire crab, minus the devil (lungs) and entrails and they are absolutely FULL of meat, especially if you get heavy ones. If someone is wasting crabmeat at a pickin' party...people get pissed. I've actually seen people get cut off for not getting all the meat out of the crab, lol. I've had whale sized jimmies that are so heavy and full of meat, that you are full after 4-5 crabs and I can easily manhandle 12-16 crabs.Yup. You can have em all. ;-) Practically no meat in em except the claws and am very much against the harvesting practices I've seen. Folks catching them, breaking off the claws then throwing them back in the water.
Spot on... It's all realative. Oh yeah, the blues are definitely smaller than dungeness. Whales are 5 1/2"+ and you get about 2-5 oz of meat. An experienced crab eater can work through a Blue in just a few minutes. We start young, I think I was picking my own at around age 5. You learn early on that if there are only 3 dozen on the table and you're a slow picker, you get less crabs. I can mow through them.I guess "practically no meat" is relative to what you're used to. Where an average blue crab is... what... about 1/3lb with 4-6inch shells and you get 2-3oz of meat out of em?
An average dungeness is more in the 2-3lb range with 8-10inch shells and you get 1/2-3/4lb of meat out of em... roughly the equivelant of 4-6 blue crab. That's a "lot" of cracking.
When you're used to dungeness that's the main gripe about redrock. Unless they are really good sized it's sure a lot of work for a couple spoonfuls of meat.
A friend of mine has perfected the way to haul up crab rings without having the larger crabs scuttle out of the rings while the rope is being messed with.