Sports How and where to crab: ‘No, they don’t like smelly fish’ bait With the recreational crab season open, here are tips and information to help you succeed. By Mike Benbow Special to The ...

My advice: Invest in a crabbing kit -- essentially a line with a metal bait holder on one end -- available at bait shops all over the Chesapeake. It helps keep the bait where it belongs.

Oceana staffers ordered crab cakes from 86 restaurants in Maryland and D.C. during the height of the 2014 crab season (late summer) and then conducted DNA testing on them.

Before you head out this weekend to crab in New Jersey, get your crabbing checklist ready. New Jersey’s blue crab season 2025 is underway and runs until Nov. 30 in most waters, with an extended ...