Hi!! Thank you! 🙂🙋‍♀️

Cool! I've had soft shell blue crabs, would love to be able to catch them someday!

Hey! Thank you so much for the nice comment and for checking out the video! 🙏🙏

Yeah, the classic rock soundtrack at the beginning from her neighbor grabber was hilarious - hit after hit!

Thanks! They made for some darn tasty crab rangoons at the end there!

😜 thank you!

These actually turned out perfectly fried (in my opinion anyway) despite the shallow frying, but you could certainly do any shape

Thanks for mentioning that. I know the recreational crabbing gets shut down by Fish&Wildlife when the domoic acid levels spike, but playing it safe is obviously never a bad idea with something like that.

Not true at all. Always cleaned my crabs before cooking and still got domoic acid poisoning

Stopped eating Dungeness crabs in 2014

@@MisfitsFiendClub138 wow. I've never dealt with that, and hadn't yet encountered anyone else who has. Were you eating a lot of crab regularly? Maybe I've just been lucky, although I only get to eat crab maybe twice a year.

Yum, I've done that with giant prawns, but I can't remember if I've steamed Dungeness that way before. Thanks for the input!

Thanks! I've been able to keep them lively for half a day, by keeping them in a bucket of the same water where I caught them from, but they really need cool, aerated water, so you do want to get to cooking them asap of course. Or, keep refreshing their water every hour or so, if you're hanging out and crabbing all day

Hola, mucho gusto! Y muchas gracias por su comentario! 🙋‍♀️

Are you crabbing from a boat by chance? In my experience with crabbing from the piers in the shallow bays here, your bait gets eaten by hermit crabs, shore crabs, non-keeper Dungeness crabs, etc within a couple hours, so it's better to pull the traps often and add bait. On a good day, you might pull the traps every 30-40 minutes and have 15+ dungeness in there every time... on a slow day, it doesn't matter whether you pull the traps every 30 minutes or every 6 hours, you probably won't have many/any keeper crabs but your bait will still be gone after a while. I see a lot of people using castable crab rings/traps on a fishing pole instead, probably for that reason

Ok understood - "crab on"!@@kayla_sulak

Good question! Well, it depends a lot on what I was frying and for how long. If the frying oil is still pretty 'clean' after a really quick deep fry like these rangoons, I'll pour the cooled oil back into a plastic water bottle (or the empty oil bottle, etc) and save it for the next fry. But if I was more directly frying meat/fish in the oil (like crab cakes, breaded meat cutlets, battered fish, etc), or if the oil has a ton of food bits in it, I just pour it into a bottle to throw away... Or, pour it into the campfire and try not to get burnt when the flames suddenly go a few feet higher, lolol

I've caught them before in the warmer months. It was worth trying them once, but they're only a few inches big-- it's kinda like harvesting meat from a crawdad (not much meat for the effort), and the meat doesn't taste as good. I'm not sure if you can specifically "target" them with bait either(?), unless you already know of a spot where they're prolific

Thanks for checking out the video! I did indeed show how I cooked them here, and then made a recipe with the crab meat at the end. It was fun! Hoping to make some more catch/clean/cook videos like this in the future! Cheers!

Crab is orange/red when cooked... Not grey. ?

Thanks, that's what the captions are for

Sorry, I do the best I can with the equipment I have... Which is just an old android cellphone lol. Would love to buy a nice microphone setup someday. Thanks for watching tho!