The crab holes. I worked my hand down the hole slow, and when I feel like I be gettin near the crab, I dig my fingers down in the mud. Then I yank out a passel of mud, and the crab be in that mud. I always go in the hole that way, and get what I want. It not be too much trouble.
Most people use a long wire, with a hook on the end, but that be a pack of foolishness.
I lust reach in and get em. After filling his bucket, Bryan would go home and pick the meat out of the body and claws. His mother really knew how to stew crabs. She'd put the crabmeat into the stewpot and add a little pepper and salt and a mite of nutmeg. Then she'd add the yolks of two broken up eggs, some crumbled-up biscuit and a spoonful of vinegar.