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Blue Crab???

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:15 pm
by Swoffa
Caught this mud crab out at the Blue Holes at the Vernon Islands last weekend......problem is it is BLUE :shock:
Blue Muddie.JPG
Scooped it up in the landing net as we drifted over some shallow sandy bottom......Best crab that I have ever tasted.

No it is not photo shopped!!

Cheers

Warren

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:47 pm
by maxpower
That's an awesome looking crab. Maybe they go that colour when they are in clear blue water for a longtime. Trying to blend in or something. Would look good in an aquarium.

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:35 pm
by Lats
"Blue (Da Ba De)"

Yo listen up here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees
Is just blue like him inside and outside
Blue is his house with a blue little window
And a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him and hisself
And everybody around
Cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:23 am
by Dinga
First the angry red Rambo crab invasion now this.

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:09 am
by wally gator
THAT is what they look like when they live on the reefs and not in the mud , we used to get them that colour at Mergenella off the rocks at low tide? And yes they taste fantastic nice and clean..

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:19 am
by JEDA1
i thought blue crabs were like that because they have just shed their shell. we used to get them like that in the creeks in the harbour if you squeeze them under the shell it would be soft due to shedding and would be empty !

the rusty coloured dirty ones were always full

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:43 pm
by itsinmeblood
Just visiting from.............blue mud bay :lol:

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:56 pm
by 2rods
Got to see pictures of one that fisheries were given to try and breed with at the aquaculture place... Blues crab ever.. But it went back to green after while they told me.

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:10 pm
by wrangler
thats a biological mystery right there :O im sure he would have tasted great haha was it empty or full?

Re: Blue Crab???

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:21 pm
by dodgyone
Yep. If you can find a spot that holds numbers in clean water that's how they look. Perfectly clean and tasty.