A post from our WFK Pacific Coast correspondent David Rosberg (AKA The Dude):
‘So this is how my friend and I have been catching Dungeness Crabs, and our dinner, in the northern Californian ocean waters. We put the crab cages on the nose end of our surf boards and paddle out to deeper water, drop the cages (or ‘pots’ is what they call ’em) attached to rope and buoy, paddle back to shore and let them sit there about 1.5 hours. Then we paddle back out, pull up the pots, and we get about 20 crabs on average, around half are big enough to keep and the smaller ones we throw back. Take them home, kill, clean, boil, and the feast is on. Delicious sweet crab meat.’ (Served on toast with olive oil, mayonnaise, and a squeeze of lemon)
yummy! just looking at that sweet crab-meat makes me hungy!