Crabbing in Port Aransas?

[Flyboy718]

Anybody know some places to take the family to catch blue crab while we are down there?

[Austin]

You got a boat and are you talking with traps or a net?

[Clark]

Last time we were cleaning fish at Conn Brown marina, a kid was wading the grass right by the cleaning station and had a net full of crabs.

[Flyboy718]

You got a boat and are you talking with traps or a net?

No boat, just hand lines and a couple 18" collapsing traps.

[Trevor73402]

Interested in this as well.

[Robertt]

West side of the road between Aransas Pass and Port A is good. Go near the bridges.

[Flyboy718]

West side of the road between Aransas Pass and Port A is good. Go near the bridges.

I was just looking at that area and saw Fin and Feather.

[Robertt]

Fin and Feather is a good place.

[Austin]

Steadmans reef is usually pretty good

[Flyboy718]

So basically just try anywhere there are boat slips and key in on fish cleaning stations?

[glen]

Cleaning stations will have lots of hard heads. I like deep drainage ditches going into tidal lakes. The incoming tides will usually bring a lot of crabs with it. A drain a couple feet deep can be full of crabs

[coldgas]

Oh boy!

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[Clark]

Cleaning stations will have lots of hard heads. I like deep drainage ditches going into tidal lakes. The incoming tides will usually bring a lot of crabs with it. A drain a couple feet deep can be full of crabs

The kid at Conn wasn’t fishing, he was just eyeballing them and scooping up with net while wading. I watched him net a dozen in about 5 minutes.