Live blue crabs

wait... this isn't a response thread to the Prop Stop thread?

nevermind... carry on

That’s barbaric.

Ya’ll heard about the Viagra barge that flipped over in Lake Ponchatrain.


No more soft shell crabs.

Also see if you can put a burlap sack or something over them to keep the ice from touching them directly. That’s always worked for me. And as everyone said above keep drain open

Crabs - if they are freshly caught shouldn’t be an issue, on the other hand if they already been on ice or in a cooler for “x” number days and you don’t know what “x” is then it is questionable.

Crawfish - ice chest, ice on top of sacks, drain cock open to allow water to drain as ice melts, and keep the cooler in the shade at all times. Of course if you have a spare beer refrigerator that would be better, but then you’d probably know this.

yes they will be fine as long as you let all the water drain out as ice melts. they go to sleep when cold but will drown if covered by water because they cant move their gills to breath and survive by breathing air.

at the camp we used to keep crabs in a refrigerator for a week until we had enough to boil, we only caught one or two each day in the trap under the pier

Put a bag of ice on the bottom of the ice chest. Don’t take the ice out, just put the whole bag on the bottom. Then put a towel on top.put the crabs on top and you’ll be fine. They’ll go dormant and when you take them out and they start warming up they’ll get active again