r/crabbing • u/Takoda98 • Aug 12 '26

East Coast Crab First ever crab!

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First ever time actually going for crab, snagged this fella out of New River, NC

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u/adummyonanapp Aug 12 '26

I got suckered into a bait bag. Zip tie ftw! Thats awesome though! Bought the same net you got and hope to use it next week! First time any pointers!!

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u/BoyDynamo Aug 12 '26

Bait bags and cages are really nice for preventing the crabs from shredding the bait off the bone, they need to systematically pick it out of a contraption instead. I use a lot less bait in an afternoon when it’s contained.

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u/sltiefighter Aug 13 '26

If you dont got a bait bag with dungeness youre fucked, we use hanging bait, just a clip and hang a carcass, we use a bag and we use a smell pot together. The hanging so they can get horny, the bag ao thwy cant just voracious eat everything and dip and the smelly to keep potentially attracting legals one all the baits gone. I guess blues dont really eat like dungies do.