We keep two crab pots at the end of the pier all summer long right off Eastern Bay in the Chesapeake. We have them whenever we want them for free. Well for the price of Razor clams and fishing for White Perch for bait...Sure beats paying $75.00 a dozen. When they’re running I’ll catch 3 or 4 dozen in a couple of hours just chicken neckin’...G&M is the best crabcakes...there are a few others too...
I spent five years in Tidewater Virginia.
I noticed something which appeared to be a local custom. The local high school kids would tailgate in a movie theater parking lot before going in to the movie.
They would cook crabs right on the tailgate of a pickup.
How wonderful for you! The best I can do in summer is eating young lobsters at a shack in Tenants Harbor, Maine.