Ronnie By The Sea

  Cooked Australian Sand Crab Sand Crab Feast One of my favorite kinds of seafood to eat is a Sand Crab. I'll buy one for lunch, mix up some seafood sauce and just pull the thing to pieces and listen to a podcast... its a delicious treat and a relaxing way to enjoy a meal break. I traded fishing secrets recently with  Laurie Suarez and learned some interesting tricks of the trade... and collaborated on some videos about Sand Crabs. Turns out I know more about cooking crabs than catching them, which works out fine as I tend to buy them anyway. The scientific name for the kind of Sand Crabs, or Blue Swimmer Crabs we get in Australia, for the most part is: Portunus Armatus, which doesn't sound tasty at all. The best way to enjoy sand crabs in my opinion is to buy them cooked and pick the crab meat yourself, here is a video explaining how to clean a sand crab . If you have heard 'soft shell crabs' mentioned in American TV shows, they are referring to sand crabs, or soft sh...

Swim the Squid Lure like a Prawn / Shrimp Retreating The way a squid jig or squid lure works is by imitating the likeness of a prawn / shrimp right down to the way it swims when it is retreating from danger. Using a lure to catch a squid starts with learning how to make it swim like a retreating prawn / shrimp. When prawns swim normally they swim forward slowly. But when startled they retreat by swimming backwards in short bursts, with a halt in between. To replicate this action a squid lure or squid jig combines a factor of buoyancy with a counterweight, so you can swim it like a retreating shrimp. The correct swimming action of a prawn retreating is burst, halt, burst halt. The way you replicate this takes advantage of the balance between the slight buoyancy and slight weight of the lure. You jerk the lure forward a bit with your rod, then let it ‘halt’ then you jerk it forward a bit more, then let it halt…. then you just repeat this swimming action. The lure does m...