Best Crabbing @ Sembawang


Had the most number of catches during today’s crabbing session @ Sembawang Jetty.

9 Flower crabs(2 more not in pic, dead already when brought home)

7 normal crab small ones, +1 super small one(forgot release)

and i released another like 10+ more mini crabs.

Don’t see the normal crab small de. Their gong3 quite meaty and taste nice orh…

The flower crabs are good for seafood soup, but since my flower crabs this time round is much bigger, means i will get to try the flower crab meat too!



Those flower crabs were caught mainly by using this bamboo trap.

Its really thrilling leh!

Cause every like 5-10mins we have to check whether there are crabs on the trap.

And when you pull the trap out from the sea, you will be feeling some minor weights on the trap and you will be guessing

“ooohhh got some weight! got some weight!!”


Then if a big flower crab is stucked on the nets, then it will be more exciting!

Cause there is a chance that the crab will crawl out from the nets(if its not trapped entirely) and then “POM”!

There it goes, ran away!

Then you will go “ Arghhhhh!! That was real big!”

Then what you can do now is to drop the trap back to where you retrieved it from and hope that the crab goes back in again.

And that was what i did and this whole thing happened twice!

And i managed to finally catch those big bastards!

But also sometimes, the crab is not tat stupid to come back to the trap again ah…

This rectangular trap also not bad, i got most of my normal crabs from this cage.

But the normal crabs at sembawang jetty are always not very big in size.

But my friend’s uncle once caught a BIG NTUC Sri Lanka crab using this net at East Coast Park.

So this net is still productive, just that maybe the venue that i brought it to is not that suitable.



What’s most important is the BAIT!

I found that smelly fish heads and local fishes are the best baits.

Tried using the famous Shark Head before, but it didn’t yield as many crabs as when i used Batang Fish heads that i gotten from NTUC.

Another gd bait is the local fishes caught from the area.

What i did today was, i managed to fished some small fishes and i got really annoyed when the small fishes just keeps biting onto my hook and in the end i got like 5-6 small fishes.

Then i left it in my pail and it begin to die one by one.

I was thinking don’t waste the poor fishes, so i string them up using binding wires and added them to my bamboo crab trap.

After reloading my crab trap with freshly caught fishes, i immediately got crabs on my net!

Those ppl beside me was like staring at me, omg, his bamboo trap is full of fishes.

LOL, looks abit kiasu la, but its really useful la, i got quite alot of catches today lor!


The other thing i found out that is important is the TIDE!

The first 1-2 hours of lowering of tides, there wasn’t any crabs.

Then when the tides hit the lowest of 0.5m at ard 4pm and was we were getting the incoming tides, crabs started to flood in!

Other people around me was like getting big crabs too during that incoming tide.

And got a very helpful uncle(who help me retrieved my tangled rigs) also said that,

“Haiz… those young chaps should have waited longer for the incoming tides.”

So i guess incoming tides are good for catching crabs!



P/S : OMG. can’t believe i’m blogging so much about crabbing.

Hope you guys are not bored reading, or maybe you guys already skipped the longgggg paragraphs and ended up reading this finishing sentence of mine…!