Lots of tiny invertebrates and micro sources of food live on and around the rocks and plants. Please return the rocks and weed in the same place and position you found them, and don’t leave them upside down. You need to turn over rocks and weed, to see if they are under them. But on open beaches they will be hiding along the edges of groynes and hugging every bit of feature that they can find. You can collect them all round the coast including rocks, estuaries and even open beaches. When crabs are moulting they are at their most vulnerable, so they like to find as much shelter and protection as possible. Where can I find Peeler Crabs? You won’t just be able to drop your crab net down in the harbour and catch Peelers unfortunately. The further out it goes, the more chance you have of finding good numbers of crabs. I know this may seem obvious to most, but you need low water to be able to find the crabs. However in certain parts of the country like Devon they peel all year round. When can I collect Peelers? The crabs normally start to moult around mid April and continue to do so until the first frosts of Autumn. It is believed that it is the release of the Amino Acids that the fish home in on. At the same time it produces large amounts of Amino Acids, which will aid in rapidly increasing the size of the new shell and hardening it off. As the new shell starts to get bigger then the old shell, the crab pumps itself full of water to force the old shell to crack off. For a crab to grow it has to shed its old outer shell and produce a new one that it can grow into. So what is a Peeler Crab? It is not a specific type of crab, it is any crab that has entered into the moulting process. My friend Paul Black had this lovely Bass of almost 12lb on fresh Peeler, so we know that they take big fish. All manner of fish love them, I have caught Rays, Bass, Smoothound and lots of Cod on them. In my mind there are very few baits that are better than Peeler Crabs. and hopefully I will be able to answer those questions in this article. What is a Peeler Crab, and how do I collect them? These are two of the most common questions I get asked.
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