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[bmynbr]

Does crab need to be cooked the day you catch it? or can you leave it till the next day, if you leave it in water?
 
Thanks, Dave

[aaron600]

 I would cook it the day you catch it. I would find it very hard to keep the crab alive more than 1 day.

[Fish Assassin]

I would cook it the same day unless events prevent you from doing so. In that case I would clean the crab, keep it on ice and cook it the next day.

[bmynbr]

Awesome, thanks guys

[wjlz]

Does crab need to be cooked the day you catch it? or can you leave it till the next day, if you leave it in water?
 

Use newspaper to wrap it and put in refrigerator. I keep them in a refrigerator drawer. I cover them with damp newspaper. They will be live for 3-4 days. They need two important things: moisture and air.

When you get them at the water, You can wrap them with newspaper. They do not like fresh water. They will die sooner in freshwater.

[Ian Forbes]

The doctor gave me some medicine to take care of mine.

[fic]

Use newspaper to wrap it and put in refrigerator. I keep them in a refrigerator drawer. I cover them with damp newspaper. They will be live for 3-4 days. They need two important things: moisture and air.

When you get them at the water, You can wrap them with newspaper. They do not like fresh water. They will die sooner in freshwater.

I tried that before and I'm so surprised they are still alive over night.  Whenever I put the live crab in fresh water when I get home, they are dead within hours.

[aaron600]

^^^ Neat trick. I will have to try this when I go crabbing at Birch Bay in August. Thanks! 

[brandooner]

cool!

[BananasQ]

Did anyone try this with any success? I'm looking to give this a go this weekend after having some die in the bucket of sea water I had (presumably through suffocation of lack of oxygen in the water).  Do you just leave the crabs loose in the fridge draw with damp newspaper on them? I don't think that the missus would love that surprise! 

[firstlight]

Use newspaper to wrap it and put in refrigerator. I keep them in a refrigerator drawer. I cover them with damp newspaper. They will be live for 3-4 days. They need two important things: moisture and air.

When you get them at the water, You can wrap them with newspaper. They do not like fresh water. They will die sooner in freshwater.

Just don't use the comics or they will taste funny.

[pwn50m3 f15h3r]

I always wrap crabs in newspapers and put them he fridge when I don't cook them on that day. I have had them survive for a whole 5 days in there.

[mikeyman]

Crab...well...I crack the shell off split and clean the guts.one day in fridge max before u boil. One day after boiled max in the fridge. Best is cook fresh. After cooking if to much left. Peel all meat and vacuum pack with a little lime juice. Awesome crab cakes and will keep in freezer for a month.

[GordJ]

Just don't use the comics or they will taste funny.

And I guess the obits are a dead end?

[firstlight]

i get a old trap and zip tie the doors and tie it to the end of my dock stayed alive for when I needed to cook them, 3 days.

That's what im going to do.
Oh,wait a minute,i don't have a dock.