Crabbing in Long Island

I took my mother and brother out for an evening of crabbing off the pier at Captree State Park in Long Island, NY. We got on the road around 5:00pm and watched as the sun started setting quickly along the side of the road. By the time we arrived at the pier, it was completely dark out and the wind began howling. The current was so strong we had to move a few times in order to find calmer water so that our crab traps would reach the bottom. We managed to get about 5 blueclaw crabs and a handful of what the other fishermen called ladycrabs.