Clamming in Delaware can be as easy as swishing your feet in the sand in shin-high water, and picking up hard-shelled clams as you find them. They’re a delicacy in the First State, and catching them makes for a fun time on the water. So, let’s go over a few techniques for catching them, where…
Being bottom feeders, crabs tend to carry bacteria around with them. It’s cooked away when you steam or boil the crabs, but that’s only if they lived long enough to reach the pot. It’s easy for a dead crab to get cooked, which is the most common way to get bad crab meat. Unfortunately, the…
A Delaware Fishing License is required for residents and non-residents to catch fish, clam, and crab in all Delaware Waters. A Fisherman Information Network number (FIN Number) is also required, which you can obtain for free at the DNREC website and headquarters in Dover, DE. For its small price, all proceeds go towards fisheries research,…
There is a lot of confusion to cooking lobsters. I put together this list of common questions you may have when cooking lobsters and followed it up with thorough research. I hope this helps answer a few questions! Do you leave the rubber bands on while cooking lobsters? A 1998 University of Maine study claims…
I’m going to assume you just bought live a lobster and you want to set it aside for a special meal. What do you do with food you want to preserve? Freeze it of course! Lobsters aren’t like most foods. You need to approach preserving lobster differently. Freezing live lobster will kill it and allow…
I’ve compiled a list of spots to catch Dungeness & Rock crabs in Washington so you don’t have to spend hours researching yourself. I’ve scoured google reviews and forums, called local tackle shops, and watched hours of youtube videos to put together this extensive list of actual crabbing spots. This post gets pretty in-depth, so…
I scoured forums, talked to locals, and asked commercial crabbers where they go crabbing to put together this immersive list of crabbing spots in Oregon. Whether you have a boat and plan to set dozens of crab pots, or want to set a trap from a pier, I have a spot for you. I categorized…
If you’re like me, you’ve stopped and wondered why we cook Blue Crabs, Dungeness Crabs, and other types of shellfish alive. It’s something I’ve grown up with, and never really stopped and wondered about until now. So, I did some research and came to a conclusion: Because crabs are bottom feeders, they tend to harbor…
If you’re from Maryland, like me, the idea of boiling crabs may sound crazy. I had never heard of it until I started researching crabbing in the Southern United States, where boiling crabs is the norm. I was curious which method was better, so I did some research to find out. Here’s what I found:…