This time of year, when many other forms of angling are hampered by weather and cooler water temperatures, he brings his attentive disciples down the ocean's edge to help them discover the finer points of casting shrimp and sand crab patterns on bonefish leaders and 8-weight rods.
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Flies : Gray shrimp, pink ghost shrimp, sand crab ( Selby's version, with a brown, plastic bag for the shell, is called Frank's crab ), Crazy Charlie ( a bonefish fly ) or similar attractor pattern, Clauser minnow or any yellow, green or blue saltwater streamer patterns.
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Even Mitchell's competitors agree that it was a brilliant marketing move to convince a handful of influential chefs that a crab variously known as sand crab, mud crab and rock crab, was really a peekytoe crab and more desirable than any of the better known crabs from elsewhere like Chesapeake blue, dungeness and Alaskan king.
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Ms . Gray refers to the peekytoes as sand crabs but says the local slang for them is not peekytoe but " picked toe " _ pick-ed pronounced as if it had two syllables _ because the crab leg has a very sharp point that turns inward " Picked is Maine for pointed, " she said.
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The idea is to target surf species that take shelter in a trough _ the Barred Perch and Corbina Highway, by Selby's reckoning _ after their mad raids on the sand crab beds, and to take aim at the halibut that dine on their offspring, especially that of the perch, which bear young from February to July.
