Broadening my Louisiana life experience, I met some reporter friends in Houma to go crabbing. What’s crabbing? You go fishing and come back with fish. You go crabbing and come back with crabs.
The process is pretty simple. Find some water. Tie a string to the dock or a stick or other object that won’t move much. Tie a piece of meat on the other end of the string (we used chicken necks.) Throw the line in the water. When a crab grabs on, pull the string into shore and scoop up the crab with a small net.
That last step is the hardest and even though we had several lines out, the crabs were not biting and holding on.
(It’s important to keep them alive. Ours got a little stunned by the coldness of the ice chest. They were alive, but more paralyzed than snappy.)
It started raining so we left with nine, but half of them were decent sized. We threw them in a pot with corn, potatoes, garlic and sausage and there was more than enough food to go around.
One had just done a story about a crab meat factory, so he had some insider secrets on how to best get the meat out. If we ever break crabs together (breaking is one of the steps,) I’ll share the secret with you.
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