[lonestar]

I got some spider crabs! I got them off of santa monica peer. There were two types. Males and femals. I cought 1 male and like 4 females. The males were a lot larger then the females. I had to buy a new larger pot to cook the male cus he was a big boy. There were only two draw backs to spider crab eathing: 1: They have thick shells. It took my girl friend and I 3-4 hours to shell crab meat from 4 female spider crabs and 1 male spider crab. Wait there more issues. The have such thick shellls that they take forever to die. So when i put them into water they bubbled for about 2 minutes before dieing. Which is a log time for one's kill to die. Anyhow, I cought them w/ the help of the local califorinan peer foke and a basket of oisters, raw herring and raw chicken, pulling it up every 30 minutes off santa monica peer. Ok im drunk but hey its the truth. Anyhow, one of the local peer foke said some good advice: hide your crabs in a covered container or else tourests will bug the hell out of you (although you can make a little doe off of selling the release of a spider crab to a local' w/ a pushey girlfriend) Anyhow, no one hussled me to throw my catch to the water cus my bucket held all 5 crabs and was not see-through. But the processing of thse thing was horrible. Next time, I will: throw the ENTIRE HEAD awawy. Well she said there was meat in the head but hmmm i dont konw if its worht it. mayb its just the femal heads i hated opening... well if they wernt' already open after boiling. Cus the females expsose 3000 little oragne eggs in some sort of dis like structure which sickened me. Perhaps it was my natural instinkt to be sickned by the killing of 3000 prospective life forms (even if they be spider crabs) cus i have to much heart and think meat grows on trees. Anyhow, i hope you the reader of htis dont want to break my balls just cus i boke the spider crabs balls but hey human's are carnivals and need to eat meat that is why the atkins diet is so popular.
2: One of the santa monica locals (probably some sort of asbstract street performer) said that spider crabs will give you NIGHTMARES. The night after your first mass-spider crab kill you will get nightmares about them. Well I did dream about them. I deempted about their big heads and their fake fang like things. About a month later I began desiering crab meat so I will probably go catch more.