![]() I filled a few 4 pint milk bottles up with sea water while I was there and collected some seaweed. So I took the unused ones home to see if they would peel later, if I could keep them alive, as an experiment as I had not done this before. ![]() I bought about 30 off him and disappointingly only around a third were ready and the rest were not. Last year because Wales was shut, one of the first sessions I had was up Fleetwood trying for smoothies and I sourced some crab from a local peeler dealer. I've kept crabs I've bought alive for 6 weeks in the fridge until they've peeled, in small plastic tubs like you get from the Chinese. I have the same attitude to bait digging, lol. Definitely not for the crab tile thing but even searching for them in the wild is pretty time consuming and no guarantee I’ll get much.Ĭurrently got 120 in the freezer at 60p a crab which I’m happy to pay to save myself the hassle. Would need to replace the seawater every day or two, I believe. It’s quite a chore checking them every tide and cleaning them out regularly though (if they’re clogged with mud and sand, the crabs won’t use them).Īlso worth remembering that not every peeler you find will be ready to ‘pop’, it might take a few days, so people serious about it keep them at home in an aerated (sp?) tank and ‘bring them on’ until ready to use or freeze. Some places have bylaws now forbidding or controlling their placement though. In some areas especially estuaries, people place ‘crab tiles’ ie bits of guttering or similar, and make their own crab traps. Then it provides suitable shelter for the next animals to come along. ![]() The weed not as important if the tide will move it back but if you turn a rock, try and put it back roughly as it was, without squashing anything else under there. The fighty ones aren’t usually peeling.īut you may well find a fighty male carrying a female peeler underneath them.ĭo try and replace things as you find them though. If you’ve got any areas with rocks covered with bladder wrack or similar weed that you can just turn over, that’s a good spot to hunt for them.Īs you say, the peelers are likely to be more docile.
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