Soft crabs are just regular ol blue crabs like they catch all over the east coast and down around loosianna. When they outgrow their shells they slough them off and for a few hours are in a soft shell stage. Bout like a crawdad. Anyway they are supposed to be really good eatin after ya cut their face off and get rid of the devils fingers(like their gills). My momma was really fond of soft crabs. I caught lots of em...and had a live box to put the peelers in(the ones getting ready to slough their shells. I caught hard crabs and sold em. caught eels to salt and use for bait and when we ran outta them I'd go out and use a bow and shoot cow nosed rays with fish arrows and a string with a bleach bottle on it...cut the wings off and use them for my trotline bait for crabs. My first boat that I had when I was 11 had a Palmer hit and miss engine and was 24 ft long. Great crab boat but it was really slow. After I burned that engine up...forgot to put water in it(
) I put a Wisconsin in it. Really went then...but it used a whole lot more gas. Growin up around the Chesapeake was a real experience...but we were still money poor. Rich in other ways though...as I look back on it now!!