nymph
Blue Crab (Saltwater)
Imitates blue crab
Realistic blue crab for redfish, stripers, and drum in estuaries.
Hook sizes
#1/0#2
in blue, olive, tan
- Type
- nymph
- Imitates
- Blue crab
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Technique
- dead-drift, strip
- Water
- saltwater inshore, saltwater flats
Tie it yourself
When to fish it
Summer and fall in estuaries and grass flats.
Where to buy
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