Guide Dan Utley considers a chunk of a legal blue crab an ideal bait for fishing under a cork in high-water grass.
To prepare a crab for bait, he removes all the legs and the upper hard shell and lower apron. He then cuts the body in half and then into quarters and threads one onto a 2/0 Kahle hook with the hook going through some meat and out one of the leg holes. The rigid sides of the leg holes tend to keep the bait on the hook.
When the crab lands in a likely spot the juice dissipates through the water attracting any fish in the area.
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