Spider Crab

[The Great Wallsendo]

Haven't posted a question for a while.....

Do we get Spider Crabs in any great numbers on our shoreline?

Plus has anyone used them as bait when they're peeling?

 

[phill_itofish]

Haven't posted a question for a while.....

Do we get Spider Crabs in any great numbers on our shoreline?

Plus has anyone used them as bait when they're peeling?

hmmmm never seen any,, or any shells washed up on the beach or owt,, see alot of them in pembrokeshire. why would you use them for bait would you not just eat them ??

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Just read something about them in Total Sea Fishing...the guy was using them as bait for Bass...the peeler was as big as his hand

 

[phill_itofish]

Just read something about them in Total Sea Fishing...the guy was using them as bait for Bass...the peeler was as big as his hand

christ on a bike!!!! now thats what i call a big bait.

 

[mick dunn]

I,ve never seen any round Hartlepool.

 

[northeast1]

Walkway shields, get loads of them in March and April, caught one a few years back and it must have been 5" accross, it had alsorts of things growing on its shell.

They like amckerel lol as i found out fishing for whitey in that mark.

 

[Brashy]

aye iv had a couple from the walkway a few year back been a while since iv seen any tho

 

[Falcone]

Spider crabs are caught regularly on the trawlers, they seem to be more of a deep water species, but do get the odd ones from the shore.

 

[5150]

Had the odd ones, harbours usually (maybe by-catch dumped by the boats?), think they're like some species where we see a load one year then none for ages...

 

[rod-the-cod]

lie brashy says there was loads around the walkway area a while back but we dont see them much realy around here

 

[Brashy]

been ages since iv seen one caught like

 

[peter.m]

You mean little ones like this

Getting loads like this Fenit Pier, Ireland a couple of years back.