Blue Claw Crabs
the bay fishing dock in Seaside Heights
I spent a few days in Seaside Heights New Jersey last week. I was also able to stop by the crabbing and fishing dock on Barnegat Bay. There was nobody on the dock and I just spent some time walking around, looking in the water and sitting on one of the benches there. It was so pleasant to sit and look out over the bit of the bay you can see from the dock. There were a lot of birds flying around, as there seem to have always been at this place.
When I was walking the dock and looking in the water I saw some blue claw crabs swimming around. Just some little guys, as it is early in the season obviously. It was cool to see them though and it brought back a lot of memories of when I was a kid.
I used to go crabbing with my grandfather in the summer and we always had a great time. We used traps and sometimes just a drop line. It was exciting to try to get them into a bushel once they were caught. The hope was to fill the bushel with crabs and then we would have them for supper at home. The crabs were very unpredictable and although a quick transfer helped, they could get a little nuts when you tried to get them in the bushel. It seemed you were always inches away from getting pinched by one of their claws. Every once in awhile, you would get it. Which made it all the more so that you did not want to have it happen again.
Just thinking about those memories made the trip to Seaside Heights way worth the trouble and expense of getting and staying there.
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