Florida Crabbing Charter CRAB FISHING Crystal River

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Have you ever wanted to catch your own dinner, but weren't really sure how or where you could do something like that?
Have you ever wanted to know exactly where your seafood comes from?
Well dip netting for crabs is one of the easiest ways to get started in harvesting your own food and it doesn't get any more "organic" than that!  Maybe you aren't much of a fisherman or a hunter. Maybe you love to eat crabs at a restaurant, but never imagined that going crabbing for your very own Blue Crabs in Florida was even a possibility.
Let Florida Crabbing Charters take you on a charter that will not only show you how to go crabbing like the Florida Natives did centuries ago, but along the way you will encounter some of Florida's untouched wildlife in it's natural habitat.
From gators, to manatees to dolphins, you never know what you might see on one of our trips and thats not even counting
all of the fish and other underwater species you will see as we cruise along looking for crabs.
We look forward to sharing this age old method of crabbing with you and please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Unlike some of the other Crab Charters offered around the country, we DO NOT collect and bait crab traps. Our charters are a little different. At Florida Crabbing we head out at sunset with only your group onboard for the night. Shortly after reaching the crabbing areas, we will kick on our powerful ultra bright and silent LED Lighting System with over 32,000 Lumens of light. As we slowly cruise around the flats looking for floating and crawling crabs, you will reach down and attempt to scoop up the crabs you see. It's not as easy as it seems, as the Blue Crab is a fast escape artist when he wants to be. Once you get your own method going and learn to scoop fast, it is a very successful way to crab and you will have a ton of fun with your family spotting and scooping up your future feast.
The number of crabs you collect in a night is entirely up to your skills as a crabber, but on average we collect about a dozen crabs an hour depending on how many crabbers are participating. In all reality, two or three dozen crabs is more than enough for a 4 person feast when boiled with corn and potatoes in a traditional crab pot. There's nothing like catching your dinner straight from the Gulf of Mexico
and filling your cooler full of Fresh Live Florida Blue Crabs.
Shipping of crabs back home is available for an extra fee.