In this video we used ring nets to catch blue crabs from a boat. After that we watched how Crave Restaurant in St. Bernard cooked up the crab meat for a catch and cook.
I am 72 years old and when I was a child,before my dad died, we would go out to the lake and throw out those type of nets anchored in the cracks between the stairs of the sea wall. We would spend the day with family and the kids running the nets every half hour or so and by the evening we would usually have a bushel or two of crabs. My dad would set up the boiler and cook them right there. Then we would spend the evening picking and eating them right there at the top of the sea wall. Great memories. Sadly the lake became too populated to eat the great things the lake used to have to offer. Love ❤️
I grew up on the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake Virginia. One of the best crab fisheries on the planet if not the best. It dumps into the Chesapeake Bay. I remember going to the railroad trusses by the Ford plant and literally filling up a 12 foot Jon boat to the point where we had to stand on the benches. All with a dip net pulling them right out of the water and right off the pylons. Then cook and pick crabs all night so my granny could make crab cakes that would knock your socks clean off. I did these things solo at 9 years old with a 9.9 Johnson and my Jon Boat. Best days of my life!!!!! Love this content.
JARED What a wonderful video it was fun to watch you catch, but you need to be voted by the parish president for the St. Bernard Parish ambassador, You have my VOTE ‼️
Love me some crabbn', the wife and I are buying a dozen of those nets you have as I am typing this comment. Great video, keep it up and I can't wait to come see you down there in the great parish of St. Bernard.
Another great video of our south Louisiana way of life... but with an elegant twist of a delicious meal (not that all of our meals aren't delicious)... gracias amigo!!
OK Jarad, if you keep this up I’m gonna have to unscribe! Don’t know how much more I can take seeing all that fantastic seafood, much of which I grew up eating in Mobile. Couple of suggestions, about future catch and cooks, if you haven’t already done them. Fried soft shell blue crab and fresh fried mullet fillets. In my opinion both great, tasty seafood. We always had plain grits with the mullet but cheese grits would kick that up a notch. We used to catch soft shells wading at night while floundering but of course today they are farmed like so many other seafoods. And we crabbed cotton line with chicken necks and dip net! My how things have changed! But the crabs still taste as good or better! Enjoy the videos, especially the ones with your boys. Keep ‘em coming!😊
It’s cool you guys don’t have a size limit. Here in Maryland in the Chesapeake Bay it’s 5 1/4 inches and hard male crabs only for recreational crabbers. I catch so many just under 5 inches that I have to throw back
I live in Natchitoches, Louisiana which is probably about 150 miles north of St. Bernard parish were this was filmed and I’m not sure if our temp gauges even go down to that temperature. I don’t blame you one bit for not going out there to shovel. With the arthritis I have I’m not sure if I could get out the door. Lol.
I used to ship out of New Orleans and while waiting to catch a ship, I would go to a bar in St. Bernard parish named Perino's . I met some of the friendliest people you would ever want to meet there. I would not hesitate to visit any of the establishments in the Parish.
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I have almost exactly same net set up In tributaries of the Chesapeake bay on the Eastern shore. Your nets should have bigger Diameter. And bottom ring.
It's hard for me to watch you eating that great dish. Cannot get that quality seafood here in Jacksonville/St Augustine, Florida area. Many years ago I worked as a chemist in the then Tenneco Refinery at the river end of Paris Rd. in St.Bernard Parish.
