Don’t see these in Ky!!

What kind of crab is this ? Found him in the water one night crabbing with the girls

I'd say a spotted one...

Blue crab. They turn reddish the ya throw them in hot water and get a lot less aggressive as well

I would invite it to dinner.

Keith

How can anyone look at that thing and lick their lips!?

You just don't know.

Thought they were salt water crabs .

That is a redneck pig castrator.

Good one Nittany.

LOL, When I was stationed in Biloxi, Miss in '68, some of us guy's went to P-cola for the beach, and one of the guy's was body surfing when a crab locked on to his sack. Life was hard for that boy for the rest of the time I knew him.

Blue crab. When i was the prduce Manager of a produce market in VA we sold dozens of them.when they were in the soft shell stage.

It last a short rime when the blue crab shed their shells.

We had standing order from them.
You remove the gridle and fry shell and all.

Thise people were crazy about soft shell crab sandwiches.

The old guy on swamp people sells them commercially

Been known to eat a few, lol

Possibly it is a Speckled Swimming Crab- https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/255165

calico, they are everywhere in the surf.

It's a speckled crab, blue crabs are found almost always in the sounds and brackish waters, not the ocean surf.

Yup, speckled swimming crab.

Just googled it, didn’t look like a blue crab to me.


Blue crabs!

Same here! Delicious hard or soft!!

The shape says blueclaw crab. The spots are strange, I've never seen one with spots though.

I can't eat the softshell crabs. My wife will fry one up and eat it on bread. I can't get over the fact that it's a whole crab shell and all. Once I've picked the meat out of one they're delicious. I like steaks and burgers but I don't want a big slice of cow.

Fried softshell crab is right near the top of my favorite food list. You need to clean them right and use hot oil.
I like blue crab meat picked from the hard ones, but it is a calorie neutral adventure with all of the work I have to do to pick one clean.

I am going to Charleston, SC here in a couple of weeks. I thought I might get a couple of collapsible pods to try to catch some crabs in. Wire or netting better? I like the thoughts of folding them up until next beach trip. I see expensive ones and cheap ones?? Any thoughts from you beach goers.

All you need is a chicken neck and a string.

Same family but not a blue crab, but you eat them as if it were, not a calico either, I believe it's a variety of "swimming crab" , of which theres a number of varieties all over the world.

I fish blue crabs all summer and almost never eat the darn things... not worth the trouble...

Not a blue crab I've ever seen and I was a commercial crabber for about five years. Look and the ones in the basket DelewareBob posted. They are blue crabs.

Where were you when you found the crab? It is shaped like our blue crab, but not colored like one.