Andy's columns are by far the best in the mag. Always flip straight to em. Thanks for the great vid!

You need to buy a wire net we use in Maryland, so much easier for crab removal. The nets are made of stiff Stainless steel wire and the crab does not get tangles in it. When we trotline we can have two crabs in them then dump them out in the basket easily. Look up millers Island crab pot supply online for what I am talking about or some other MD crab supply place for one. No serious crabber uses a nylon net here. Also a true crab lover here never ever cleans the crab before steaming. Many of us eat the center part of the crab and we think the mustard is the best part, call it natures butter. Also we put seasoning on top of the crabs before steaming and do not wash off the crab in water after steaming. Just the differences we do, we love getting messy when we eat crabs. Wish our water was as clear as yours.

@vinniegambini

2 жыл бұрын

Fellow Marylander here. Where was the beer and vinegar in the water? Defintely needs spice on top of all the crabs in that pot. This guy needs to come to Maryland to see how it's done!

@damagekids

2 жыл бұрын

good to know info u shared.i to like the crabs mustard and skin under the shell.bottom line no soft part goes uneaten other than the gills

@crabbyturtle1594

2 жыл бұрын

@@vinniegambini I was horrified watching. He was right about the JO Spice comment. That was it. Fellow Marylander

@vinniegambini

2 жыл бұрын

@@crabbyturtle1594 I went back and rewatched this video. Almost look like he boiled them and not steamed them based off of what I saw when he lifted that lid. Then he is spraying off the crabs??? WTF!! He needs to go down to the eastern shore and do a video down there and they will set him straight.

This is what you call a great video !!! Can’t wait to go back to the cape

Ive not ever even heard of crabbing like this n I've been in Baltimore for 49yrs!! I generally don't eat males and I've not ever thrown away the guts. Over the past cpl weeks I've le a red so many diff ways to eat, cook and now crab!! It would surprise me to meet a Baltimorian who has crabbing this way- I've never heard of it!! Way cool and even much cheaper!! What a treat!!👊🏻😉ty for sharing this. Pretty cool. Never knew they froze under lite like dear

Really enjoyed the video thanks for taking the time to make it. Have a good day and stay safe Jimmy from Massachusetts

@OnTheWaterMedia

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome and thanks for watching and subscribing!

Love the video. Only changes I make. Wear a hat with lights built in. It will free up one hand. If you have enough depth, secure a pool noodle around the top of the bucket & drag it behind you.

Nice video! Thanks for sharing! We might need to try this. I bet kids would love to do this like hand lining! We crab mostly with traps. But we LOVE Blue Crabbing! 💙🦀

Thank you very much! Just what we needed, solid advice

@OnTheWaterMedia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching!

This was excellent. I really enjoy the vids when you guys explore and show other species other then fish. so much fun!!!

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, we'll be making more of them in the near future!

@On The Water Media,excellent video

Great job !

Here in Louisiana the crabs are not cooled off. We like them hot right outta da pot!!! I've been eating them that way since l was 6yrs old. I'm 66 yrs old now and I still eat em right outta da pot!! Thanks for your video....

Use to catch blue claws the same exact way in the back of Montauk Harbor on Long Island. Best advantage of this technique is you can be really selective about which ones to keep. So much fun. Great video! 🦀🦀🦀👍😎

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Very true @caterslave . Thanks for watching!

you 'all need to see how it's done in Maryland and south , try steaming the crabs whole with plenty of old bay or J.O seasoning , do not boil them !

Just came across your channel. Pretty cool catching them at night. My son and I did that one year while we were down in the Florida keys. There was a lot of other sea creatures we came across as well throughout the night. Cool way of crabbing plus you don't have to use sun screen . Great video.

@OnTheWaterMedia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We see a lot of interesting marine life up here on the Cape - can't imagine the variety you must see in the Keys!

im here down in texas, we have a 2 mile bridge that goes right through one of the bays and its all pretty much grass flats, i did this at night and got a bucket full of blues haha it was so easy just walking the water line and they were just there tucked away in the grass, i had like 8 that were all soft shells already. extra batteries in your pocket is a must.

I used to crush the blue crab in W Yarmouth as a kid. Same way, walking around and scooping them up. We used to make some good scratch selling them along with clams and chowder at the local efficiency motels.That and the catch of the day fish wise. We made our own nets with a poke, wire and chicken wire(mesh)

great photography ! under water scenes

Those are some nice looking crabs. Those claws boiiii. Good eats

Hey thanks for the video 👋

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Any time!

you guys are so proper. i bet you eat your crabs with your pinkies out. Ha Ha thanks for the video

Great video! One suggestion, put your light onto a hang from your neck lanyard, so that when you need to drop it, it won't fall into the water and you can grab it again quickly when you need to. Those crabs you got are great! Continued success! One further question, would you recommend a metal chicken wire net over a soft net as the crab won't get entangled but since the metal offers solid footing for the crab, an easier chance for them to escape? And a final thought; for picking through the more intricate sections of the crab body, one might consider using a dental pick as it's solid, thin, and stainless steel, easy to get in and out of those tiny little meat filled chambers. Get the one that is curved like a hook so that it latches onto the crab meat for easy pull out.

If you’re lucky to catch 4 inch crab in New Jersey people are a catch them small and keeping them they need to put them back so they can grow

I'll bet those hens were so glad to pick through those shells!

There is a lot of worth while stuff in those shells. Inside the corners of those shell you pop off is the beginning of the crabs next shell when it moist. Also all the yellow butter you are washing off is so favorable it incredible you are washing it off with a water hose. Steam your crab whole. Take that yellow butter and spread it over garlic toast points. You'll learn a whole new appreciation for crab.

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Been seeing more about using crab fat and crab butter. Unlike Andy, I usually clean my crabs before steaming, but I'll have to give that a try - sounds pretty good. - Jimmy Fee

I really enjoyed your video. Is there a special trick to keeping the claws on the body? When I cook crabs, they always seem come off. Thanks

A headlamp would work better then a flashlight.

hey buddy! my wife is a blue crab!

Thanks for the great video I usually go to the Cape Cod in the summer I always want catch some bull crap can you share couple spots thanks

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Any estuary or salt pond should suffice.

From New Orleans, Maryland crabs are fantastic quality. I love them. Slightly thicker shells. The way they are served cooked in Old Bay with butter as the "exotic" contribution is an injustice to the crustacean. When I paid $75+ for a half dozen #1 to then be given a bib and a hammer like I was eating a lobster... I simply sighed to avoid crying. Crabs in NOLA are a communal experience to be shared. Everything from spending hours drinking/picking meat (which we do not skip a single piece) and talking/storytelling... I'm not sure how to describe it entirely but there is something 'essential' missing from my Chesapeake Bay Area crab experiences where I was "wine and dined" in booths that isolate everyone like I'm at a steak restaurant These are crabs. Not Lobster or steak. PS Having worked at a seafood processing company during my teens. This guy would have been fired by noon on his first day. Everything you chop from crabs to squid better be transparent before you say its "its not worth it"

I have a diving light with 30,000 lumens, is that bright enough or should I consider something closer to 100,000?

Maine is lobster country...lol! Great Video!

Love this!!! I've been crabbing out on the cape for a long time - mid-cape (West Dennis) - I haven't done any night time crabbing - I'll have to give it a try next season! Have you tried using a headlamp instead of the hand held flashlight? Do you prefer cleaning crabs before cooking if you were going to be processing a large catch yourself? I've never pre-cleaned like that! Thanks for the video!

@andynabreski1565

3 жыл бұрын

thanks! The brighter the light, the better. That is a powerful flashlight, makes a big difference. (Suprabeam q7xr) I only clean them live if I plan on eating them whole, or if I'm making a crab tomato sauce for pasta. Usually I boil them whole, eat just the claws with butter, and pick the body meat later for crab cakes or other recipes.

@ducker030

3 жыл бұрын

@@andynabreski1565 That's pretty much what I would do. Snap off all claws put them aside for snacking on, the body meat is cleaned/processed all at the same time and then used for crab cakes and crab rangoons. I'll have to look up the crab tomato sauce! I've never tried that. I froze some of it so I can have some cape crab this winter!

I think we should cook one of the chickens next.

Here in Maryland we use wire nets so they don't get all tangled in the mesh. As a kid I'd walk around the marinas at night and dip net them off the pylons. Couple hours walking the docks and I'd have a half bushel for dinner the next night. Good time.

Andy, can you advise on where to pickup a crab landing net? We are in East Falmouth. Great video. Thank you.

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Eastman's and Falmouth Bait and Tackle both typically have these nets and are right in town. Thanks for watching!

Where can you buy the net you used?

I would never clean my crab as the crab butter(tomalley) is the best

You don’t need a license in MA unless you’re using traps…

I'm not big on shellfish/ crustaceans but damn, I would eat some of that.

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely try some when you get the chance. Very delicious.

where in Falmouth are you?

Where in Falmouth are you?

hold them monsters tight on the back big swimfin where it meets the shell firmly and you will never have to worry about getting bit

Can you share me the name or address of the crab place

I'm from the lower eastern shore of maryland born a raised here and The way you cleaned those couple crabs you ruined it the mustard is what gives it flavor man and put the jo over the crabs so when you take them out and get to eating them the jo will fall off and you can dip your crab meat into it ......and AND YOU NEVER TURN THE CRABS UPSIDE DOWN WHEN YOU PUT THEM IN A STEAMER POT I can see my grandma now turning in her grave way you warshed those crabs after steaming them your killing me no no no!!!! Where is the beer ???

@jeffreygeorge219

Ай бұрын

ITS LIKE A VIDEO OF WHAT NOT TO DO.....LOL

@jeffreygeorge219

Ай бұрын

Made me cringe when he broke open a live crab and tossed the mustard and guts and said theres nothing special there

@bigguyvlogs9922

Ай бұрын

Man I just don’t understand it lol

I've been eating blue crabs since I was a kid. I remember my Granddad asking me "You know how you can tell the difference between the male and female crabs?" I said "No, how?" He had a smirk on his face and turned the male crab on his back and said "All the males looks like they have a ding-dong in the middle." and then we laughed about it. Then he showed the females didn't have that and that they had ridges in their back. Never forgot how to tell the difference with blue crabs after that.

Can you tell me where is this at?

@OnTheWaterMedia

Жыл бұрын

Any salt pond on cape cod should have blue crabs. Not spot specific.

You Rule, Boss

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Andy is the man!

They will absolutely rip each other to shreds. I tried to keep a half dozen alive in a holding cage once and only 1 survived. The rest were completely dismembered.

I've done this at night with a couple of headlights wired to a battery from a 17' BW. i would use a pole to move the boat along that had spear at on end for eels and a net for the crabs. The crab population took a nose dive here about a dozen years ago, either from a cycle or from spraying and i haven't done it anymore, A good video otherwise. We use to pile or the cooked crabs on a table with newspapers and eat them that way with a s few bottles of beer. This was on the south Shore of Long island.

I saw a nice eel down there.

I have crabbed for 75 years and have a few suggestions since you are teaching people how to crab. Replace the net in the crab net with chicken wire, get a bushel basket and an intertube. Place the basket into the inflated tube and pull behind you to free up your hands. Watch the attached video to learn other ways of crabbing:WWW.kzread.info/dash/bejne/n2qs3MNsl9anibQ.html in addition to using a hand line.

Lots of people eat the yellow part of the guts and love it! If you tried it you would probably never de shell a crab before you cooked it!!!

@tonychau1983

11 ай бұрын

Best part of the crab

Its also illegal in NJ to crab at night. I'm in RI and wish we could do this...cool video!

@OnTheWaterMedia

4 жыл бұрын

I wish we knew why they ban night time crabbing in some places? Any ideas anyone?

@newenglandbushcraft4506

4 жыл бұрын

@@OnTheWaterMedia Maybe the same reason you can't spotlight deer? Too easy? Speculating here.

@OnTheWaterMedia

4 жыл бұрын

That or hard to monitor catches at night?

@ralphrepo

3 жыл бұрын

@@OnTheWaterMedia Quite easy. The game wardens just wait by your car. Unless you came by boat (or walked, LOL...), you're bound to get caught.

@Tog_Tastic

11 ай бұрын

@ralphrepo Especially with a big head lamps out on the water. DEM guys could see you from miles..

A rolling pin will remove all the meat from the legs and a chopstick or both believe it or not will pick the meat out the body cavities pretty quickly. U can avoid the shell better

@dominicdesiata2976

3 жыл бұрын

You mean just roll over a pile of legs with a rolling pin?

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

How do you use the rolling pin to remove the meat?

Which net do you use?

@jeffreygeorge219

Ай бұрын

the wrong one,,,,use a metal net

LOL.. Dude, that is not a tail. That's his jock strap. And, Never, Never wash them down after cooking. Made my eyes hurt.

What torture, haven't had fresh caught blue crabs in years. My chops were just a smacking watching you pull the meat out.

Catching crabs to eat. Calls crabs evil

he's not using a headlamp 😂😂😂

@floydmaronge8001

2 жыл бұрын

This is the worse way to eat crabs. I have eaten crabs for over 60 years and this is the worse way to boil and clean crabs.

@FattyMateo

2 жыл бұрын

@@floydmaronge8001 sorry what?

I like big crabs crab got a lot of meat in them

There are numerous rules broken here but different parts of the country have developed bad habits for "steaming" crabs. The most important rule is never ever put blue crabs in fresh water. You just spent hours catching them in seasoned salt water and you ruin the crab by soaking them in fresh water before steaming. Then you rinse them off after steaming. Another rule broken. If you are just after crab meat, buy the canned product.

@mikecampbell3688

2 жыл бұрын

What else would he be after, the shell?

free meal yes but the amount of water used to clean them was extreme.my favorite part was after they cooked and he started to show segment after segment how to go in and get the meat.no other crabbing video ever showed that part which ages this video different and 2thumbs up.

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I thought you had to have a lobster crab permit for ma. ?

@OnTheWaterMedia

4 жыл бұрын

Blue crab Regulations: 5 in shell width (spine to spine) Egg-bearers cannot be taken; 25 crabs/day; no permit required unless using traps or SCUBA; closed season is January 01-April 30, inclusive Link: www.mass.gov/service-details/recreational-saltwater-fishing-regulations#recreational-crab-regulations

@chuckdumas1023

4 жыл бұрын

Good to know thanks

@MABeerBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

You need a license for a closed trap (they crawl in and can't get out - like a lobster trap), not netting, hand lining or collapsing traps..

How do you cope with the sharks ?

You got you a bucket you got you a net try to get live crabs so the family can eat too more videos please

You grab them by the back legs and never get bit.

I would easily choose getting my hand tattooed again over getting pinched by blue crabs. those suckers HURT like no other!

11:52 - so they don't rip the shi.... so they don't rip each other to shreds.

If you truely want to see the most efficient method of getting meat out of a crab watch the Vietnamese women who do this for a living. They are paid for production 9n the Gulf Coast. They will leave a crab shell devoid of meat in 30 seconds.

@OnTheWaterMedia

3 жыл бұрын

I have watched those videos, even bought the knives, but I still can't come close to that level of speed and precision. - Jimmy Fee

Let's have a big party let's go get some crab let's go have fun and how many crab that we get a lot cuz we having a big party more videos more love more to eat more meat and more crabs

Chicken wire net Much better to use!

More crabs more meat more parties family get together a lot of crabs family get-together

why not use a wire net

Sorry, just gotta say it. Never clean the crabs inside or out when eating steamed crabs. For other recipes where you actually suck on the shells, then yes clean it. And prying them open while they're alive is not a humane or necessary process. At that point they're limp not from the ice water but bc they're dead. Spraying cooked crabs with water to cool them down is asinine. Prying cooked crabs open and spraying them off is insane. I hope you're able to eat blue crabs to it's fullest potential one day and enjoy all the flavors they provide. You have such a magnificent abundance of them and you've come up with a very peculiar way to eat them. And your video production is fabulous!

@crabbyturtle1594

2 жыл бұрын

A visual: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pWSoyqqlecybl6Q.html

When did you need a license for crabbing?

@RikkiTikkiTavi290

4 жыл бұрын

Since every person decided keeping as many as possible at all times was a good idea.

@tonychau1983

3 жыл бұрын

@@RikkiTikkiTavi290 what does that have to do with a fishing license? And this dude is wrong no license needed when hand lining and just a net in ma

@RikkiTikkiTavi290

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonychau1983 ? People are less likely to know bag and size limits when there are no licenses needed. In my area there are tons of less fortunate people shall we say, that don't buy licenses and keep just about every fish they catch regardless of size/ species. There is also the tourist crowd that does the same, and several foreign countries Ive fished in have the same problem. I think licenses can be an important educational tool, and the biggest reason its not more effective is because enforcement is awful in most places.

@tonychau1983

3 жыл бұрын

@@RikkiTikkiTavi290 just punishing people that follow the rules. They're going to keep shorts or over bag limit regardless if they require a license or not thats just how they are.

Watching him steam the crabs as a Marylander hurts to watch

These crabs are evil 👿👿👿👿 lol

Using so much water to clean the crab before and after cooking would make them watery and bland. There’s so much flavor in the fat, liver and brains.

Jesus that's not it. Glad you like grabs. Come to Maryland I'll show you.

Crabs on their back are going to die. Flip them over.

decent video, but you def don't know how to hold crabs. That's why it pinched you too, even though you said it was the only safe way to hold it. You have to turn your hand sideways and grab the base of the swimming legs. Don't wrap your fingers around like you're holding a cookie. Although, I appreciate the accurate sizing of the crabs, most fishermen like to exaggerate.

I luv how he cooks the crab "whole" and throws away the best part of the crab..... ahh white people lolz

@ZeginMakesMusic

3 жыл бұрын

The lungs and face are NOT the best part of the crap.......also being white doesn't have anything to do with how you prepair food.

I prefer my crabs whole and not cleaned

PLEASE DONT LISTEN TO THIS GUY....USE A WIRE NET, NOT MESH, NO TANGLE, AND YOU HOLD THE CRAB BY THE BACK FIN, NOT THE MIDDLE, THAT IS WHY HE GETS BIT. USE A HEAD LAMP, NOT A FLASH LIGHT...AND "A JIMMY" CRAB IS OVER 7 INCHES, NOT 5 IN....LAUGHABLE

@jeffreygeorge219

Ай бұрын

P/S......THE GUTS/MUSTARD IS THE BEST TASTE

Shut off the ads. You’re being greedy.

You're definitely not from Maryland.