Crabbing for Blue Crabs... monster Stone Crab in our catch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- My wife and I are pulling four crab pots that have been soaking for 4 days in Jenkins Creek in Beaufort, S.C. We'll sort through our catch and see how many keepers we have today. Keeper crabs need to be 5" or bigger here male or female. #howto #catchcrab #crab
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Crabbing tips & tricks: how to/what to use to bait & catch blue crab with crab pots/traps or baskets; how to measure blue crab/stone crab claws; how to clean/cook crabs; how to determine sex/maturity of blue crabs; regulations & requirements for crabbing in SC.
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God is so good!!! Keep me in your prayers. Lung biopsy at 10am edt tomorrow. What a nice haul of blue crabs! I can nearly smell them and almost taste them. My first time blue crabbing, went with high school friends. The dad took us under a bridge with a net, rope, cooler and chicken necks. He tied a rock a foot or so below where he tied the chicken neck. What fun! Poor guy, 4 teen girls squealing!!! We ate good that night!
Prayers! I bet your dad loved crabbing with you girls. It's the simple things in life and good health that are the most important in life. I'm glad this video brought back memories of the time you spent with your day. I call them memories Salty Reflections.
Ms. Karen, Prayers that everything goes well and your biopsy comes out showing nothing bad. ❤️❤️
@@alannamcghee6690 Thank you so much!💜
Wishing you the best, we will be praying and thinking of you and your family. Hope to hear you are good and healthy. Stay safe and God bless you and yours from me and mine. 💪🏽💯👍🙏🏻
@@joelmcmahan7386 Thank you very much.
Love you guys . Thank you for being so honest.🐚🐚
We love you too. We try our best to be honest with everyone. It's the way of life we want to live.
Much respect you are a real one
I just try my best to do what I thinks right. I'm also a man that understands everyone don't agree with the things I do. It's OK to disagree. Lol! Take care and stay safe.
Another great video. Surely enjoy watching them. At least I get to see Beaufort again through your videos.
🤗 Thanks for crabbing with us!
Nothing like creek life, too much fun.
That's for sure. Thanks for taking the time to comment and watching!
That's the first thing I noticed was a storm in the background! Steph, you got a "like" from your favorite shelling Saltaholic! And, yes, God is good ALL the time!😊❤️
Yes, we knew there was a storm in the distance and tried our best to pull our pots as quick as we could, but you know how I love to talk. LOL! Steph said she did her best and said to thank you. I thank you too. Stay safe.
@@SaltyReflections Oliver you are definitely the fastest of all the folks I watch to answer comments!😊
@@gingermackeen5741 I try my best to keep up with you all. You guys are my TH-cam family and I appreciate y'all. You and others have helped me in many different ways.
Thank you Oliver & Stephanie for sharing your Wildlife/Crabbing tips plus clearly explaining the rules. You guys are top notch nature lovers & stewards of your beautiful coastal waters and i enjoy all your videos!
Thanks man! Yes, we love the wildlife and coastal life. I hope we can continue to share many more videos with you and others. Our content or videos are never scripted, we're just running our mouths about whatever comes to mind when we're videoing whatever we're doing at that time. We have read all the comments from others on our videos over the years and have learned a ton from others. When we get a question, we look it up for some of the others that may not know how to. We're just ordinary SC country folks.
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Those are going to be yummy 😋. Enjoy! Keep on truckin ✌
They were great. We cleaned, seasoned and steamed them last night.
Crabout! Great times plz share the rain. We haven't moved the yard for 4 wks now! We need it.
I'm cutting grass every week trying to keep up with it here but we have had times like that here too. I've been seeing where lots of the fresh water reservoirs have been slowly drying up over the years out west. Scary.
Looks like crab cakes tonight I sure do love your videos I get excited every time I see a new ones ready usually I'm just starting to have salt Ts but I see that new video and get my fix lol thanks guys
LOL! Thank you and thanks for coming along on another video.
It’s always fun to see a SALTY REFLECTIONS video come up. Fishing, beach treasure hunts, crabbing and family fun are in every video. Wishing the best to the crew, families and fans of SALTY REFLECTIONS. God bless you all. 🎥💯👍💪🏽🙏🏻
Thanks Joel! God bless!
Love your videos. Go home get out of the rain. You makes such good videos. ❤️🙏🏻
😊 thank you
Nice video, I always checked all my crabs for size before dumping.
Keep the videos coming.
If the crabs are close I'll take the time to check their size. If they're not, I dump them. I'll do my best. Stay safe.
Thanks for sharing!! now go home and be save and enjoy your crabs. :)
You bet! Thanks for the comment and coming along on this video.
I love them crabs! I had the pleasure of doing in Alaska.,Yum🦀 cheers from Florida ✨✌️🌴
I bet that was fun. I'd probably get over excited pulling in a trap full of big crabs like they catch in Alaska. 😆 🤣
@@SaltyReflections Lol I was so excited. You should seen when the orca came up to the boat. Amazing. And ya the Dungeons crabs .. oh lord!. I dream of a lifetime . I look forward to seeing more of your videos. 😊🦀
Nice haul of crabs. I’ve found here in Florida the crabs will fight each other if they’re out of food. Use a zip tie on your crab door to find out if they’re being robbed
Great idea. I don't think anyone had messed with our traps but it was a good way of bringing up the story about the commercial crabber that had just approached us about someone taking some of their traps. I'm not the type of guy that takes from someone's family. Commercial crabbers seem to be at war with each other, if you ask me, fighting over territory that don't belong to anyone.
Thanks for sharing nice Crabs I live in Florida and this is something that I want to do as much as I have been around Salt Water just never done it enjoyed it
Thanks! There's no size limit on blue crabs there.
Love the crab story. Stephanie's my girl, she's not afraid of anything. It amazes me how you all walk around that boat. Those shells were lucky to have crabs in them. Stephanie would have kept them had they not been occupied. Great video happy rain held off. Be safe and healthy. Would love to see you all cook crab.
LOL! I didn't see any Hermit Crabs in the shells. I was surprised Stephanie didn't keep them too. We're going to have to show you how we cook our crabs soon. Stay safe.
I love the way you are saving to keep the species safe for us and future crabbers...Have fun and keep up good work...
Yes, thanks. We catch enough to eat and when we catch more keepers than we can eat we freeze them or give them to friends. Our family loves eating fresh crabs when they visit too.
Watchin is like hangin out with friends. Enjoy those crab cakes!
Thanks! It's great having a big TH-cam family. We cleaned, seasoned and steamed our catch last night.
I caught a huge rock crab 🦀 on my fishing pole on Saturday in Rhode Island and he/she put up quite the fight trying to real it in. I thought I had a shark. We tossed it back, but my husband wanted to eat it haha. I tend to toss back everything. Caught 3 Dogfish sharks too that night and a big scup and they all got to live another day. Not bad for a disabled woman. Hoping to get back out there tomorrow for some calm pier fishing at my favorite spot. Love your videos! We can’t wait to get down to SC in a few weeks!
Sounds like awesome memories filled with excitement. Hope you enjoy your time in SC!
@@SaltyReflections I don’t know now if we are going to make it down. I was diagnosed with Covid on Monday. On top of all of my other medical issues adding Covid onto them is brutal. I made it for 3 years without catching it and a week before I go on vaca to do some shelling and shark teeth collecting I get sick. I wanted to actually hold a welk and find some angel wings because I need some of those right now as proof that my guardian angels are looking out for me. You both have taught me so much about the shells I have always loved so I’m still hoping for God to heal me so I can go shelling in SC.
Yummy! What time is dinner? Blue Crabs are the best! Thanks for sharing!
Yes, they're yummy. We've have already eaten this catch. We cleaned them, covered them in a layer of Old Bay, steamed them and had a cup of melted butter to dip their yummy meat in.
Another great video!!! So glad the storm didn’t get you like it did the last time!!! ❤️❤️
Thanks for coming along for the adventure! Us too! 😉
You could send some of that rain over here to Franklin County, MO!!! What a nice catch!!!
Thanks for watching in Missouri! Are you guys going through a drought? We've been getting showers every afternoon here on the east coast of SC.
Oh yeah!!! It's so dry here. I think other areas around us have gotten a little rain, but at my house it's DRY!!!
Hope ya'll can do a crab catch & cook soon
We'll do another one soon. We'll make them smellalicious.
Hello Guys.
This is the first time on your channel.
I definitely love crabbing and eating them. Nice video. We were up there a couple years ago stayed on the water front. I thought there would be crabs there. Like to get back there again.
I'm going to checkout some more of your videos. Tight lines....
👋 Thanks for checking out our channel! We hope you enjoyed crabbing with us! 🤗🦀
Always a good day on the water with Salty Reflections! Thanks as always! Almost to 10k!! GOD is good!
God is good! Thanks for the comment and watching buddy. We're closer to 10K than when we started. I hope we can continue to grow together.
As always, enjoyed your crabbing! Beautiful lowcountry!
Glad you enjoyed it! We're all surrounded by beauty.
That’s a nice stone crab but I’ll tell you a true story I have one that I got about 15 years ago that literally broke my pinky finger in half the claw was as big as my hand and weighed 10 ounces by itself Keep up the great crab and have fun
That's crazy. Thanks for the story.
God is good, you did great Stephanie thanks Oliver for telling about different crabs. Have you seen a solid blue one before?
Thank you so much! Somebody was telling me they caught an albino crab the other day. I would've loved to see it. But no, I don't think I've ever seen a solid blue crab. The ones I've seen have all been mixed colors.
That would be awesome to see. I saw albino raccoon. It was at night and if I took my camera it would have scared it.
Great video Oliver and Stephanie thank you for bringing us along.
You think it's possible that maybe you could get on a commercial crab boat so we can see the difference and how they operate and how recreational crabbing is somewhat the same but different in some aspect. Oliver you have a great Channel and I look forward to seeing more videos like this. God bless you all and you're right God is good amen
Thanks brother! I'll check around and see if there's any of the commercial guys that would like to share a day out on the water with us. I know how you feel about God too. And I'll say it again, GOD IS GOOD!
Hey guys! I just started watching your videos. I'm from north beach md. We go crabbing alot (couple times a month). And I use to use chicken or foul necks on my trout line. A few years ago my brother turned me on to razor clams for bait. Now I swear it seems me catch 2-1 using class vs chicken. So if we plan on going crabbing over the weekend, I will order razor clams and use live fresh bait. I use to think bait was bait & crabs would eat anything, but I swear those damn razor clams are what they tear up no matter what.
Would love to see you guys try using razor clams for future footage. Maybe things are way different down south, but like I said the razor clams are definitely something the crabs love!
Yeah, I've seen a few guys from up in your area using razor clams for trot lining. They seem to work really well! We'll have to check into it & see what our bait shops offer. We find shells from razor clams here (as seashells). But I'm not familiar with razor clams commonly alive in our area, so maybe they'll have frozen. 🤔 It would be interesting to try. 👍🦀 I bet they would love 'em - a little something different! Thanks for crabbing with us for a bit in SC!
@@SaltyReflections I get the razor clams from tri-state marine (local place), but they all come from the eastern shore. I typically have to place the order by Wednesday. I've bought & used them frozen & I didn't see much difference vs live, maybe a lil better when live... Yea I would like to see you try the clams. Last year I did a comparison (for piece of mind) & ran 600' (trot line) using chicken necks & a 100 yards over I ran another 600' trot line using razor clams & I swear we caught over double using those dang clams. Blew my mind. I've talked to some of the local commercial crabbers & they tend to switch over to chicken or foul necks later in the summer. I will do my homework & see if I can get some clams sent down to ya! I will be in touch!
We aren't experienced at trot lining as we've only tried it 2 or 3 times & none of those attempts were successful. 😖 We have never seen anyone from this area crabbing that way since we are allowed to use the traps/pots. But we just love crabbing, so we tried it. 🤪🦀
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos!! I’ve never crabbed before, but dying to!! Hubby and I are in the upstate, but would love to be closer to the ocean. Hopefully in the next couple of months we can make that happen!
Sweet! Crabbing with crab pots is so easy. Bait em, set em and pull, pull, pull. I wish you guys the best of luck on reaching your goal. Thanks for the comment and watching!
Let’s take that camera in the kitchen! Let’s see how to cook ‘‘em and crack ‘em!
Coming soon!
Oliver, can you tell me whose sunglasses are they. Look great on you.
Thanks! I got them out of Wal-Mart. LOL 😆 They work.
7:24, that's not how it works lol. Crabs shed to grow. After they shed, they stay the same size until they shed again. So a couple weeks from now, that crab may be fuller, but the exact same length. You'll have to wait for it to shed first, then it'll automatically grow a couple centimeters over night.
LOL. Thanks for the info.
@@SaltyReflections np, it was a good video, and that was a good speech about being within your limits when you caught the stone crab.
@@chimyshark Thanks
Go to Walmart and pick up a couple of packs of Chicken backs and necks and put them in with your fish bait. The oil from the chicken will attract more crabs to your pot, everybody up here in the Bay uses Chicken, so what are you waiting for? Chicken backs are cheap and the results pay for themselves, what do you have to lose?
We've used chicken for 🦀 bait many of times and I agree it works great. I've made crabbing videos were we tested to see if chicken worked better than fish. You can check that video out too by looking through our videos. We like using what we catch for bait the best by choice only. We hate being wasteful, It's not about the cost.
i think your crab gauge is more than 5 inches more like 6 inches lol theirs some crabs i seen that were legal! Lol
LOL! I need to check it with a tape measure. My buddy probably made it the wrong size on purpose.😁
@@SaltyReflections probably so!🤣😂 I caught some small ones and I used my cooler tape measure and they were right at 5 inches lol
I want to know the process of breaking off the top of crabs where you can put them on the grill I beleive they would have to be alittle chilled first
We'll do it. Catch, clean and cook coming soon. We've never grilled crabs but that sounds great.
Thanks cant wait still interested in that shirt your wife was wearing
@@stanfromgeorgia3117 Sure! Visit our spring store for merch options (link in video description).
Do you guys ever do any hand line or ring trap crabbing along the road in creeks or back water? Sounds like a good adventure.
We love using two ring crap baskets crabbing with our grands and others.
I am doing recreational crabbing in Chesapeake bay area, and how come you can keep female crabs there, and Maryland you can not?
Commercial crabbers are the only ones that can keep mature females in Maryland. Each state has different rules and regulations. Always check the rules and regulations for the area you're crabbing.
What do you use for crab bait?
LOL! We use all types of bait, but we mostly try to use what we catch while fishing or shrimp trawling. We have used chicken too, but Steph and I don't like spending money on things that we don't need. We've were brought up living the simple life like lots of people from SC.
@@SaltyReflections carcasses it is then!
I like that you are honest and that you give God the glory. Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, and do you believe Jesus Christ is God?
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Stone crab are way over rated in my opinion. Especially the price they charge. Nothing beats the crab you can get in Dutch Harbor. Hands down beats lobster or blue crab by miles
People love Stone Crab claws. In our area I understand stand why Stone Crab claws are so high. Imagine trying to catch a species of Crab that are not plentiful in that area and when you catch one you can only keep one legal sized claw if the 🦀 has two. Thanks for watching in Dutch Harbor.