Crab

[sled]

Eight limits of really nice crab for two days in MA12. If you like taking all day to clean the meat out of the Rocks, they're ok. I send them all back to the bottom.

thank you!

[Encore 280]

Over in the little bay on the south side of Hood Canal bridge is a good spot.

[hunthard]

Thanks 280, I won't be that far north.

[Old Dog]

Old dog. We went to a new spot today. But I've got a report from my dad that where you are going to go is doing very well

Thx for the tip.    It took us a couple of sets to find the right depth, but we ended up with a couple of limits of nice dungees.      

[Commando]

Very nice! Glad to hear it.! We might be out there thus weekend but we are not yet.

[SweetCosmicPope]

Crabbing 8-1 with a single pot this weekend.  Maybe some snares, too.

First time crabbing in Washington and first time for dungeness.  Used to crab with three traps for blue crab when I lived in Texas.  We lived on a canal, so we'd just walk out into the yard, toss out the traps loaded with chopped up trash fish we'd caught, and come back a few hours later and have ourselves a crab boil!

[Ellensburg]

I'll be launching out of the camano state park. Gonna be a s%%t show, but I'll be there early enough to find parking I hope.

[bigtex]

Anyone keep/eat the rock crab?

Al

yup

[NRA4LIFE]

We'll be out in 8-2 tomorrow morning with 17000000000 of my best friends. 

[SweetCosmicPope]

Went to kayak point this morning.  Pier and boat launch are both PACKED!!!  Didn't see much coming out of the water, either.  I saw a couple people snare a couple of keepers and saw some little ones come up.  My pot came up empty.

Set my pot again and will return in the early afternoon to see if I managed to trap anything.

[DoubleJ]

Anyone keep/eat the rock crab?

Al

That's all we have around here close to the house.  Harder to get the meat out but the meat tastes better IMO

[sled]

Went to kayak point this morning.  Pier and boat launch are both PACKED!!!  Didn't see much coming out of the water, either.  I saw a couple people snare a couple of keepers and saw some little ones come up.  My pot came up empty.

Set my pot again and will return in the early afternoon to see if I managed to trap anything.

ugh, don't be surprised if people check it for you on the dock while your gone.

[NRA4LIFE]

Easy limits Friday and Saturday.  Had 44 keepers in 4 pots Saturday morning.  18 in one pot.  Unfortunately we had to throw back 34 of them.  Best crabbing day we have ever seen.  All huge too.

[SweetCosmicPope]

Lucky.  I ended up pulling one crab, but it was about an inch too short.  I'm consoling myself by saying how busy it was and it was low tide.   

[Panic Minnow]

Put the pots in Quartermaster Harbor, one in 40 feet and another in 60 feet. Left them overnight and they were loaded with some huge crab.......all of them were females. Totally bummer since we were supposed to go to Hood Canal on Fathers Day.....but obviously I was not a good Dada since they didn't bow down  to my wishes...