Blue Crabs, 30 In One Pot

but Sam and Joyce here we're back out on the St John's again going to Center crab traps and we're trying to do better than we did the last two times so we'll get back to you while we're setting the traps we got various types of baits today we got what we got sand trout there maybe as soon as they're Whiting there too lighting sand trap that's the same up there down here we got some chicken Lady Fish ribbon fish grunt mackerel racks carcasses so we got a little bit of everything all right Joyce a little deeper and we usually says about 15 feet here yeah give it a try right here we got 14 foot here we'll try that I think that's got a shorter rope on hey Joyce we got about 18 feet here about 16 feet here we're scattering our traps all over today trying to find a hot spot we'll try here where we got just 12 feet here so we got 14 feet that's pretty good okay Joyce you can put the last one here we only got 12 12 feet here but we'll give it a try wow trap's been just setting for one day we only let them one day this time to see how we do with just a one day soak we usually still have set in two days but I got a theory that the once in a while you lose a crowd because I know for sure we do we've done that for swanny I had a trap I put in the back of our Seawall had four crabs in it I let it set the rest of the day I pulled the morning after war cries by the end of the day it had three crabs so I know they could get out so we'll get back to you when we're pulling the traps we're coming up on our first trap see what we got [Music] what we got joy oh that's pretty good yeah okay five crabs no giant ones in there but it's pretty good well yesterday we set these traps we actually pulled this one after it was out for a couple hours just to see if it had anything in it I had two crabs in a couple hours but we're satisfied with what we've got there's our second track I think that's what a chicken isn't it foreign wow that's great there's some nice ones there yeah that one's real nice yeah two of them right here nice there's still some little ones there's a little guy there yeah he's a little the last one he's gonna be freely there's our third one so we gotta beat seven crabs in one of these thank you feel them oh yeah oh yeah yeah but look at that big guy down there trying to get out he can't fit hey he's trained right anyway you remember when he's just young he used to get out it's not getting out of your crazy crap there's some pretty crabs there look at the color these St John River crab they're the prettiest crabs look how blue this is beautiful yeah coming up in our fourth trap we got a beat seven right yeah yeah maybe we'll go right to a dozen you can see them oh it's the red one that's a heavy truck give me a hand oh my goodness oh my goodness that was uh what was that this is a fifth lady fish that was the lady fish yeah I mean it's just too many to count in there wow the red one's not that heavy maybe do a crab dance that's enough you only need one trap if they're all like that oh my God that is absolutely gorgeous oh Dex old crabs I'm glad you bought me my boots because I sure wouldn't want my sandals oh I don't want my sandals on look at them all there's so many down there look at them uh here's the fifth one you want me to pull the rest of them you'll be overboard if you touch this track you don't lose your job you want all the fun no you're not touching no dumb let me pull the traps some people say how come Joyce pulls the trap on because I don't have a choice if you can't get in let me grab it it's a little light drip seven again seventh number there's a little guy still those little ones here I have grabs the best day we had probably a year or so tomorrow six I got seven traps right there let's see the baby went down there nice one in there girl yeah here's our last trap a little bit of wind today are we aren't much wind noise you feel trap oh gee that's not good spot right we can't complain no we cannot complain no no we can't complain no we got three crabs well we're gonna head in now we did great today right yes yes the best I guess we got about 70 crabs in there wow I know we called over seven we had little ones I threw a lot of little ones back so there must be you know maybe 70 in there that's a lot of crap that's the most we've caught in quite a while too many crabs I gotta clean all that I'll go pick them I'll clean them I don't mind cleaning them no you don't have enough shells underneath yes wow you gotta figure some different kind of recipes in there yeah a lot of crab meat we'll get back to you when we get back to the house and see what we're going to do steam them up or boil them whatever however we're going to cook them we'll decide what we get there we're all done cleaning the crabs so what I'm going to do with this pot and most of them are going to go in here I'm going to this is for our dinner tonight and about eight crabs will go in here what I did here I parboiled the potatoes and I dumped that water in here with some more water so we're gonna get the big pot started first that was really a surprise that one pot 30 crabs in it oh yeah it's been a long time since I've seen that it was good all day it's been a garlic I find boil them like this instead of semen's good too but for some reason they get a lot of the the spice get into the meat and it makes it I mean it taste better when you boil them they're all going to fit in there yeah yeah my new favorite pot you got your vinegar out I gotta get that out another tablespoon of Old Bay foreign quarter cup of white vinegar in here same way over here we'll just an eighth of a cup in this because it's a small pot and I'm going to cut up some lemon chunks of lemon here I think that vinegar works it makes it easier to pick yeah same so over to this pot foreign in here I may be cooking that part eight that's tonight's dinner same thing the garlic powder in the Old Bay I'm gonna stump the potatoes in well I did I made extra potatoes uh tonight and I'm gonna make a potato salad tomorrow with what's left over it makes a real good potato salad cooked in his crab juice it's really good and then what's out the water you cook the potatoes and some I put a little more water in there also there goes the corn the cold potato water potato water yeah no it'll make the crabs good it's got a little bit of flavor from the potatoes it's a light sprinkle over the corn and the potatoes yeah put the lid on like always say crack your lid just a little bit until like a little blue this is a big pot it was boiling it's just going to take a little while to come back up this pot gets real hot once it gets going and we're going to boil these because there's so many in here I'm going to boil this pot for 15 minutes and this pot will boil for 10 minutes okay this pot is boiling so we're going to put the lid on I do keep a lot eye on it because it's why this is bubbling it's a lot this one's lava to boil over this one's almost ready I just do it that's boiling too so I'm going to set the timer for this one for 10 and then this one when we come back and dump these out we'll set this for the remainder of five minutes so you're gonna cook the big one for 15. yes yeah and smelled on yeah so they're done so now I need to set the the big pot for um five minutes more of these are letting was gonna let these boil for 15 minutes so they had their 10 10 minutes and now it's another five minute house that they have to go for there these crabs are done more good smell right [Music] [Music] what's a nice pile of crabs Joyce the big pile yeah and the dinner looked great you know as usual that's our mini Crab Boil that we have all every time we yeah without brussels sprouts yeah sometimes well we fried some and did some in the oven right yeah so you're gonna try one of them claws this is my favorite thing when they're when they're warm the claws are really good so they that out let's take that pieces they call me is really good different that's good meat in there look at that that's a nice piece of coffee you want it no you can't you're the taster um I'm gonna eat all the rest of them so if you enjoy our videos we'd appreciate a thumbs up and subscribe to our Channel and thanks a lot for watching

Channel: The Old Couple Outdoors

Views: 227,224

Keywords: Catching Blue Crabs, Blue Crabs, Cooking Blue Crabs, St Johns River, Crabbing on the St Johns River, Full Crab Pot

Id: 6DmNqogz8RQ

Length: 18min 55sec (1135 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 11 2022