Catching crab

Continued from page 9 crabbing.

Areas from East Galveston Bay to Port O’Connor are places to find crabs. What a lot of boaters do on these two bays is throw out two or three crab traps while they go fishing for several hours. It’s a good way to set up the perfect meal of fish and crabs.

If you go, you will need a recreational saltwater fishing license. You can catch as many blue crabs as you care to eat, but each crab kept must to be at least 5 inches from tip of spine to tip of spine. Also, you can’t keep egg-bearing female crabs. It’s legal to use crab traps, but you can only fish six traps at a time. Plus, each trap has to have a proper gear tag, with your name and address, and the date the trap was set out. With that tag the trap can only be fished for 10 days at a time. After that the trap requires a new date that you can write on the tag and cancel out the old date.