Crab and Tides

[Gobble Doc]

I was out crabbing yesterday morning with my kid. We went to our usual spot but didn't kill it. The tide was really going out during the time we were trying. Ended up with 4 big dungies and some red rocks. Lots of undersized ones. I haven't usually paid a lot of attention to the tides but do you think that timing it at slack would be better?  Basically, anyone have any correlation of various tides with success? 

[WSU]

Slack is a lot better.

[FWilliams]

the 3 day tribal opening late last week didn't help you either, the Everett area was carpet bombed with pots right before the weekend.

[Gobble Doc]

the 3 day tribal opening late last week didn't help you either, the Everett area was carpet bombed with pots right before the weekend.

Thanks. Perhaps a combo of poor timing for both tides and lots of other pots.

[h20hunter]

4 pots, 22 hour soak, 9 legal dungies. Way slower post tribe fishing.

[Romulous]

We dove with scuba. I can tell you what i saw under water. First nothing but ripping current. No way a crab could be out walking around without getting swept off. Then as it got closer to slack i saw kelp crabs all in one location holding tight to kelp each with a piece of jellyfish in its mouth. Then at slack we harvested limits of red rock. Many in shallower water. Almost all near rock kelp or other structure cover. We had a bait pot out in the open in 80 feet of water. Dove that sight after slack was over. Again lots of sweeping current below. Three small crab locked on to our bait but holding on for dear life. This weekend was the largest tidal exchanges of the month. Not good is what i have learned. Use the site tides4fishing and fine the low tidal coefficient to pick a good weekend to go crabbing.


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