For what I can see, the crab in the front is going to be a dirty bottom crab and full of meat and fat. Love that crab fat in the corners of the shell and my wife won't eat it, no problem more for me. Always look fot them dirty bottom crab, not them new white bottom crabs with no meat!
You’re right Warren. That one was the fattest & had a lot of that visible fat. This time of year they are feeding heavily. We were mostly hand-lining, so missed a few large ones. Caught & released a lot that were just short of 5 1/4 inches.
The best “catch” was the MD Diamondback Turtle, maybe a foot long, that we pulled up in one of our net traps. It escaped pretty quickly once on the dock = no pix! We did see a handful of DB turtles surfacing and floating about.