Red rock crabs!

[sled]

  Anyone have any leads on where to pull up a few red rock crabs this weekend in the Everett area.  I've not found very many in the past and like to eat them.

  Thanks, Mike.

[WildBear]

It's been years.... But I remember getting a fair amount from the dock in Langley.

[KFhunter]

I love red rock crabs!

Buddies and I caught a bunch of them in 30' (or less) of water in the rocks near kelp beds.  Mostly in the inlets and tips of small islands. 


feast on!

[NRA4LIFE]

We used to catch a few mixed in with the dungies in 8-2, but the last couple years I don't think we've kept even one.  We got about 80 dungies last weekend with 60 of them keepers and only one small red rock.  The best red rock crabbing we ever saw was along the east side of Whidbey, a mile or a little better north of the ferry dock.  Just north of where the houses end.  That was 5 years ago though.  I don't target them specifically.

[sled]

Thanks guys!

[DoubleJ]

If my boat motor was working, I'd go catch you 2 dozen tomorrow and trade you for the dungies you can get up there.

[KFhunter]

maybe I'm weird but I really liked the red rocks, probably as well as I liked the dungys which we also caught. 

Or maybe I'm so used to old freezer crab it was all awesome 


Not very often this east sider ventures beyond the cascade crest

[h20hunter]

To me the meat is just a touch sweeter. There just isn't enough!

[sled]

To me the meat is just a touch sweeter. There just isn't enough!

but when you can add a few more to a limit of dungies

[h20hunter]

I pick up a,few nice reds off the SE corner of hat each trip but I don't know any go to spots for reds.  Dub j is the red crab guy.

[D-Rock425]

We pulled a few last weekend from North camano.

[rodell]

Snagged several yesterday 50-100 yards off the breakwater at Shilshole. Nice ones, too.

[Kit Carson]

Them red rocks do got awfully big pinchers for their size though

[MP123]

Rockies have real tasty claws, very sweet compared to Dungies.  Hard to get open you pretty much need hammer or pliers.  There's a reason they call them rock crabs    I'm not really sure how to target them though, they just show up in pots every now and then.

Happy crabbing! 

[cohocrazy]

Not sure what boat you have or how far you can travel, Brown's Bay a couple miles south of the Mukilteo boat launch is loaded with them.

[sled]

Not sure what boat you have or how far you can travel, Brown's Bay a couple miles south of the Mukilteo boat launch is loaded with them.

. I think I could make that from muck.  Thanks, any specs on depth?

[jeffro]

We used to get loads of them south of Edmonds marina

[WSU]

Loads of them down here in Olympia.  You can catch as many as you want. Literally. Send me a pm if anyone wants info. In general, crab in 50' give or take 20 and you will have more than you want.  Nisqually, Boston harbor and anywhere else I've dropped a pot

[lokidog]

To me the meat is just a touch sweeter. There just isn't enough!

This is my thought as well.  got one really nice one today with my Dungies, gave all four to some friends.  Make sure you are near actual rocky areas and you will get more of them, usually.   

[cohocrazy]

South end of Brown's bay, standard crabbing depths 50- 75 feet.