Absolutely did! When we were kids we used to get my uncles crab nets out of the garage, pack some lunch, take a cooler, steal some chicken from grandma's freezer to put in the crab nets, and go down to Sheepshead bay, on the Manhattan Beach side and crab all day long. The problem was if we caught a lot of crabs then the cooler would be too heavy to lug back home!

Years later my uncle would take us over to Rockaway side of the Rockaway Bridge off of Flatbush Ave, and we would actually catch baby lobsters with the crab nets. What would happen was that the lobster boats would be returning and before getting into Sheepshead Bay to dock, they would dump the undersized Lobsters out by the Bridge so that they would not get fined for having undersized lobsters if any inspectors came onto the boats when they docked! And we'd catch them in our nets.