Are you people a bunch of Ballerinas ? This was the first summer my family and I crabbed in the sound and we had fun. We never froze crab. The wife would crack and keep 4 crabs worth of meat for a few salads but me and the kid (13) would eat about 4 to 6 crabs for dinner. Thats each! I only set two traps and if i got two limits thats just enoght crab for dinner and if I invite over friends or family I have to take the wife to pull up a third limits. 3 crab limit is not enoght for dinner. we do not have the chance to crab more then two days a week in the season. Besides we can allways cut out the commeriacls and let the folks at fred myers pay more per lbs. I like to work for my crab and would never pay for crab at the store. hell I cant afford to buy crab.