It’s as if the crabs are lured not by the oh-so appetizing decomposing poultry parts but to her energy and enthusiasm. But now I’ll never be caught without a ruler again!” she says.Ĭlark is nothing if not resourceful. Once I was out canoeing with my family and we caught more than 70 crabs in two hours, but I didn’t have a ruler with me so had to eyeball them, which is a pain, especially when I had to toss out the too-small ones once I got back to the dock. Yep, her strong leg, muscled from years of food & bev hustling and more recently, hustling from crab trap to crab line along the docks of the North Bridge fishing pier, is the proud canvas for an exactly five-inch tattoo of callinectes sapidus. That’s the magic number, the sweet spot for some of the sweetest meat around, and Tia Clark knows it like the back of her … calf. Five inches from spike point to spike point.
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