When I was a deckhand we use to drop a big Monkey fist of line with some herring wrapped in the center off the boat or pier, get our nightly clean up and next day prep done, pull up the line and BAM dinner.
Lived up in Washington on Whidbey Island and had a buddy that lived about 300 yds from one of the bays. During crab season...every night pulling our 5 crab limit. I love crab but it got to the point that I got tired of shelling. Did go about 3 weeks with crab in some form or fashion nightly.