Areas near the Skyway Bridge towards Tampa and the Card Sound Road heading towards Key Largo have both proven very productive. The pilings of bridges are also a great place to look, and you can do this scouting by boat or by foot. Look for grass beds that not only provide cover for the Crabs but also an ample supply of food. They can be found on both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, but remember, the sandy beaches are not the optimum place to find them, as there are fewer places for them to hide to avoid predators such as Tarpon and Permit. Well, Guess what? There are quite decent amounts of those tasty crustaceans down here too! You just need to know where to look. Many of us that were born, or spent their childhood up North know very well about Blue Crabs (or Blue Claws), but we seem to have stopped looking for them once we hit South Florida. In this article, I will tell you how to catch blue crabs, and then, how to cook them! So with that I have decided to begin once again hunting the bays and bridges of South Florida in search of the elusive Blue Crab. I often wonder why that in today’s difficult economic times, and with the need for some easy relaxation, I don’t get back into some of those adventures I held so dear in my memories of childhood. Hurricane Sandy, which recently devastated parts the North East, also destroyed many of the areas that I grew up in, including one of my favourite bridges that I fished and crabbed from as a boy. A lot of you know that in my blogs I write about extreme hunting and fishing adventures, but before any person goes offshore in search of Sailfish and Tuna, or to the Great white North of Alaska for Bear or Moose, there was a little kid with a cane pole or a crab trap complete with a chicken leg tied to the middle in search of blue claw crabs and sand crabs.
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