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Title: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: DoubleJ on June 02, 2014, 07:36:15 PM: MA13 is open now for crabbing but I've only ever caught red rocks. Obviously I'm in the wrong spots. Any clue where the dungies hang out in MA13? PM's more than welcome

Thanks
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: snowpack on June 02, 2014, 07:49:24 PM: Do you know any of the bottom features for the area? Patches of eel grass with adjacent sandy areas?
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: SeaRun1 on June 02, 2014, 08:55:32 PM: try around 120' deep at the mouth of Wollochet Bay. I used to do real well there. Two things you need to know though are that it gets alot of pressure from the natives and the locals steal/raid pots.

SR1
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: DoubleJ on June 02, 2014, 09:11:18 PM: Crap. Only 100'of rope
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: WSU on June 03, 2014, 07:41:44 AM: Be very careful if you crab around Nisqually. The tide rips there and a lot of pots get washed away. I learned the hard way. In the Nisqually area I generally just crab the tide exchange unless I'm leaving my pots for a day or two. The key is to change depths until you find them. I've done well anywhere from 25' to 220'. I haven't tried this year but last year I didn't do well shallow.
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: sirmissalot on June 03, 2014, 08:12:15 AM: Most of area 13 has red rocks, the nisqually area does have some dungies but like WSU said you've got to be careful there the tide rips and it drops off quick.
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: gasman on June 03, 2014, 11:13:41 AM: I crabed nisqually on Sunday. Got 3 big dungees and a 5 big red rock. One od the RR was 7" across the back :yike:

Got the heck out of there though, to crowded :bdid:

And I do believe someone pilfered one of our pots. We pulled pots for the second time and we had one pot disappear. Then we found it, but I find it hard to believe that we drove past it twice and never saw it :bash:
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: WSU on June 03, 2014, 11:23:33 AM: Unless you have extra floatation, it probably got pulled under. That is the current I've been referring to.
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: MarkyMark on June 03, 2014, 11:31:00 AM: Early season you can try fishtrap in 50-80'. But it can get fished out quick.
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: Alchase on June 03, 2014, 12:13:11 PM: Quote from: WSU on June 03, 2014, 11:23:33 AM
Unless you have extra floatation, it probably got pulled under. That is the current I've been referring to.

Or pulled by the "local Population" there is a serious theft issue in the Nisqually area.
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: gasman on June 03, 2014, 01:28:21 PM: Quote from: Alchase on June 03, 2014, 12:13:11 PM
Quote from: WSU on June 03, 2014, 11:23:33 AM
Unless you have extra floatation, it probably got pulled under. That is the current I've been referring to.

Or pulled by the "local Population" there is a serious theft issue in the Nisqually area.
:yeah:

I had all my pots set up the same way and within 100 yards of each other so I can easily find the and this one just happen to appear after I passed by the location twice..... and the pot was completely empty, not even a rock crab in it.
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: MarkyMark on June 03, 2014, 01:38:03 PM: I stopped crabbing MA13 due to thievery. And Rock Crabs.
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: DoubleJ on June 03, 2014, 03:13:15 PM: I can catch 7" red rocks all day off our HOA's saltwater property. We clam at North Bay in Allen and I see dungie shells there all the time. Descent size ones too. From google earth, that whole northern end of Case Inlet looks sandy too. Might put in at Allen and see what's out there. After the boat motor gets a new lower end seal that is :bash:
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: LongTatLaw on June 03, 2014, 09:21:02 PM: I scuba dive for em all over 13...rocks are easy to limit...dungees not so much... 2-3 big legal dungees = good dive... funny thing..i see few in the 50-100 ft depth...all mine seem to be in shallow (less than 40) eel grass

still doing ling/spear almost every day...just grabbin crabs if they attack me while spearin...in 12 days...ill turn my attention on them

-dave
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: PolarBear on June 03, 2014, 09:23:36 PM: Ill pm you with specifics later tonight.
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: DoubleJ on June 04, 2014, 10:33:08 AM: Quote from: PolarBear on June 03, 2014, 09:23:36 PM
Ill pm you with specifics later tonight.

:)
Title: Re: Places for dungeness crab in MA13
Post by: PolarBear on June 04, 2014, 11:18:29 AM: PM sent