Tanner or "Snow" Crab in Puget Sound?

[snake]

so biomass is a large mass of shrimp or crab?

[chester]

so biomass is a large mass of shrimp or crab?

Yes for the most part


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[trophyelk6x6]

watch your chart plotter, that's how I try to find good shrimping on a ledge   Clouds!!!!!!!!!!!

[westy661]

Hello All,

Been thinking about targeting these Tanners when crabbing reopens. Living in the Bellingham area and LFS doesn't carry the Ladner Tanner pots, or at least I haven't seen them there. Did see that there is an outfit called Dungenous Gear Works in the Arlington area that may have good tanner crabs, but their phone lines are dead and no response to email. Any leads on a source?

Thanks,

[jmscon]

Not sure what the regs say about pots for fishing tanner in Washington waters but I would see if LFS or Reddin could order something for you.

[Sitka_Blacktail]

so biomass is a large mass of shrimp or crab?

We always called them a ball of crab. They ball up for protection and the mass sort of rolls like a ball. Here's a ball of King crab. The balls are usually made up of crab of a similar age group.

Tanner crab aren't always deep. When I lived in Kodiak we'd subsistence fish for them and King crab right in front of the Dog Bay harbor in 10-15 fathoms. We'd get them there in the spring and summer and early fall.

[Born2late]

I make the triggers( doors ) for the commercial pots that dungeness gear works sells. Their number is 360-435-5381
You'll talk to flo or lance.

[westy661]

Hi - Just spoke to Lance at DGWorks. They did make some pots, but then stopped making them, but mostly made a few batches for AK commercial use. He has had a few calls to make more, so he is thinking if he gets a few more requests, he will make a batch.  One a side note, he seems like a super nice dude.

[lokidog]

Hi - Just spoke to Lance at DGWorks. They did make some pots, but then stopped making them, but mostly made a few batches for AK commercial use. He has had a few calls to make more, so he is thinking if he gets a few more requests, he will make a batch.  One a side note, he seems like a super nice dude.

Did he give any idea of the cost for them?

[westy661]

Did he give any idea of the cost for them?
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He did not. He was kinda mulling over in his head what the next design would be for a rec trap. He said his last batch were a dome structure that wasn't very good for small boat deck space and the commercial pots were 50lbs which is a bit unwieldy on small boats. The dome structure was an attempt to comply with max volume allowed in the regs. So he was thinking a 35lbs ish conical shape with the top shoot door style.  That being said, he was still gauging the interest to do it our not. 

[Stein]

OK, I have caught them although they were pretty small.  Run your boat under a bridge, go strait and then drop pots.  The only problem is that whenever I caught them I got zero dungies which is pretty tough to consistently do.

[trophyelk6x6]

They are here, totally different way to fish them so it has taken a while before anyone knew.  WE also have box crab.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=BC+Box+Crab+fishing#id=2&vid=fb33783be518baf85174c30f45aa56cd&action=click


Very much off limits, but I have eaten them up in BC as a buddy is diver and they are unreal.....Scallops?  same deal