Pike crabs are best in August-November.

While pike crabs are sold all year round, they are generally available in large quantities from August to November each year, which is the period when pike crabs are fattened up for baiting and the individual pike crabs are the most robust, with fattened meat and the best texture, so it is generally recommended that pike crabs are best eaten in the months of August to November each year.

Generally speaking, the price of pike crabs will be cheaper in October every year, on the one hand, because this time pike crabs are on the market in large quantities, the market competition is more intense, and the price is relatively lower; on the other hand, because generally in October, there has been a Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, there has been the peak of the purchase of crabs, the large number of consumers to buy the crowd is reduced, and more for the bulk of the customers, the demand for pike crab is very high. Pike crab production, demand is small, so the price will also be reduced.

Buying female crabs in September and male crabs in October

Buying crabs has always been a kind of "nine female and ten male", that is to say, you should buy female crabs in September and male crabs in October because September is the fast-growing period of pike crabs every year, and female crabs shoulder the mission of reproducing offspring, and the nutrients absorbed will be transferred to the gonads. The nutrients absorbed by female crabs will be transferred to the gonads, so the yolk of female crabs in this period will be very full; while the growth of male crabs will be slower, and the yolk of female crabs will be reduced in October, and the fat of male crabs will be accumulated slowly, so the crab paste of male crabs will be more full at this time.