New crabber help plz

[jiakai_ln]

i live in port st lucie Florida
i started crabbin 2 weeks ago on shore with chicken
i usually go after school around 3:40-5:50 pm with ring traps got them at walmart for $2 each got like 5
i usually catch about 7 or so very good size very impatient i check every 5 minutes lol
but lately i havent caught any!!! for like a week now try checkin every 30min n 15 min
i was wondering what could be the problem
at first i thought it might be the water because it got up pretty high everytime i went lately
than i try going in the morning while the sun is just out waited till noon still nothing! and it was low tide
if your wondering im at the st lucie fishing place on prima vista
any idea on what might problem
i really wants some blue crabs lol
there 7 family memeber
so everytime when i catch i have to share
one is not enough for me lol even worse now i go home empty handed

[TAJcrabs]

crabs run, might not be in that location anymore! try farther up river or down river

[125blackfire]

Go when tides change, also sunset and sun rise. Try different depths, if you’re on a pier they will be biting on one part of the pier and not the other. So try different areas. I doubt you can drive, if you can get to other piers, or areas do that. Crabs may not be there right now. Sometimes crabbing is dead for a week and abundant the next.

I was informed that It is different for different area's. Thats how it is in MD, I don't know about your area.

[TheSandBar]

Go when tides change, also sunset and sun rise. Try different depths, if you’re on a pier they will be biting on one part of the pier and not the other. So try different areas. I doubt you can drive, if you can get to other piers, or areas do that. Crabs may not be there right now. Sometimes crabbing is dead for a week and abundant the next.

I was informed that It is different for different area's. Thats how it is in MD, I don't know about your area.

lol. Im from SC and thats how it is here too....Also Switch Your bait up too...If you use a good bait Crabs will venture to you! Chicken is for tourist lol.......Use a good oily Fish! Cut it a lil bit and make it Bleed Since your Pier Crabbing The scent and blood will carry along the shore releasing the oils in the blood that attract them...