Two days in a row I went hooping off of the Venice Pier and caught a few nice sized Yellow Rock crabs. I stored the crab in a 5 gal bucket with no water. I brought them home after about 3 hours and boiled some water with added salt and on the first day boiled just the crab claws and on the second the whole crab. I boiled for about 8-10 min. Both days the meat in the claws was really bitter, like asprin.
Maybe it wasn't very bitter, but it definitely wasn't the sweet crab flavor that i was expecting. I let a few other people try the crab and they didn't like it either.
Any ideas of whats going on? Should i not be eating pier caught crab?
thanks in advance.
Phil