Post by: hunthard on June 21, 2016, 06:07:30 PM
Post by: h20hunter on June 21, 2016, 06:08:17 PM
Post by: hunthard on June 21, 2016, 06:17:28 PM
Post by: h20hunter on June 21, 2016, 06:18:25 PM
Post by: Mfowl on June 21, 2016, 06:22:54 PM
What's open?
Everywhere except the eastern Strait, San Juans, North and Central Sound. They all open on 7/1.
Haven't been out yet myself but I will during 4th of July weekend. Good luck out there!
Post by: h20hunter on June 21, 2016, 06:27:54 PM
Post by: fisheral87 on June 21, 2016, 06:51:29 PM
Al
Post by: SCRUBS on June 21, 2016, 07:01:23 PM
Post by: h20hunter on June 21, 2016, 07:08:21 PM
Post by: lokidog on June 21, 2016, 07:35:00 PM
What's open?
Everywhere except the eastern Strait, San Juans, North and Central Sound. They all open on 7/1.
Haven't been out yet myself but I will during 4th of July weekend. Good luck out there!
Ummm, you do know that it is still June right? :rolleyes: :chuckle:
Post by: Mfowl on June 21, 2016, 07:46:15 PM
What's open?
Everywhere except the eastern Strait, San Juans, North and Central Sound. They all open on 7/1.
Haven't been out yet myself but I will during 4th of July weekend. Good luck out there!
Ummm, you do know that it is still June right? :rolleyes: :chuckle:
Yeah, several areas opened early this year and the ocean has liberal seasons.
Recreational Crab Fishing
Click Description for complete Rules & Seasons
Marine
Area Description Status
1 South Coast/Pacific Ocean OPEN
1 Columbia River OPEN
2 Westport/Ocean Shores OPEN
2 Willapa Bay - Area 2-1 OPEN
2 Grays Harbor - Area 2-2 OPEN
3 LaPush OPEN
4 Neah Bay - East of Tatoosh-Bonilla line OPEN
4 Neah Bay - West of Tatoosh-Bonilla line OPEN
5 Sekiu and Pillar Point OPEN
6 East Juan de Fuca Strait, Port Angeles Harbor, Discovery Bay CLOSED
7 South - San Juan Islands/Bellingham CLOSED
7 North - Gulf of Georgia CLOSED
8 Deception Pass - Area 8-1 CLOSED
8 Port Susan/Everett - Area 8-2 CLOSED
9 Admiralty Inlet LIMITED SEASON
10 Seattle/Bremerton CLOSED
11 Tacoma-Vashon Island CLOSED
12 Hood Canal OPEN
13 South Puget Sound OPEN
Crabbing
Post by: lokidog on June 21, 2016, 08:24:45 PM
Post by: Old Dog on June 21, 2016, 08:32:10 PM
Post by: Commando on June 22, 2016, 06:07:54 PM
My brother and I are headed to the Hood Canal Thursday. We'll be around Dosewallips State Park. There's a good clam tide, so while the pots are soaking we will rake some steamers. The crabbing in the Canal hasn't been very good for the past couple of years since they let the Natives commercial fish for them, but we still get a few. :bash:
Where were you crabbing? I thought the canal did great I averaged 15 crab a pot last year
Post by: hunthard on June 22, 2016, 07:16:44 PM
Post by: EmeraldBullet on June 22, 2016, 07:57:42 PM
Post by: Bronson on June 23, 2016, 11:16:15 AM
Post by: hunthard on June 23, 2016, 01:16:34 PM
Post by: Ellensburg on June 24, 2016, 02:41:32 PM
Post by: lokidog on June 24, 2016, 11:47:02 PM
So San Juan region starts July 1st? I'm in.
No.
Marine Areas 6 (eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca), 8-1 (Deception Pass to East Point), 8-2 (East Point to Possession Point), 9 (Admiralty Inlet), 10 (Seattle/Bremerton), and 11 (Tacoma/Vashon): Open July 1 through Sept. 5.
Marine Area 7 South (San Juan Islands/Bellingham): Open July 15 through Sept. 30.
Marine Area 7 North (Gulf of Georgia): Open Aug. 13 through Sept. 30.
Post by: wheels on June 25, 2016, 06:17:18 PM
Post by: WAcoueshunter on June 25, 2016, 07:52:46 PM
prospected our spots in hoods canal today no keepers after 3hr soak 2 females and a pot full of smalls
That stinks. Were you north or south?
Post by: wheels on June 25, 2016, 08:06:31 PM
Post by: Commando on June 25, 2016, 08:11:21 PM
Post by: Old Dog on June 25, 2016, 08:48:34 PM
Post by: Commando on June 25, 2016, 08:55:27 PM
Post by: yum tag soup on June 26, 2016, 05:08:39 PM
Post by: fisheral87 on June 26, 2016, 06:27:09 PM
Al
Post by: Encore 280 on June 26, 2016, 06:32:04 PM
Post by: hunthard on June 26, 2016, 06:34:48 PM
Post by: sled on June 26, 2016, 06:56:36 PM
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!
Post by: Encore 280 on June 26, 2016, 07:12:25 PM
Post by: hunthard on June 26, 2016, 09:55:16 PM
Post by: Old Dog on June 27, 2016, 05:29:41 PM
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. :tup: It took us a couple of sets to find the right depth, but we ended up with a couple of limits of nice dungees. :drool: :chuckle:
Post by: Commando on June 27, 2016, 06:05:13 PM
Post by: SweetCosmicPope on June 28, 2016, 12:31:20 PM
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!
Post by: Ellensburg on June 30, 2016, 11:04:12 AM
Post by: bigtex on June 30, 2016, 11:05:55 AM
Anyone keep/eat the rock crab?yup
Al
Post by: NRA4LIFE on June 30, 2016, 11:12:41 AM
Post by: SweetCosmicPope on July 03, 2016, 10:30:38 AM
Set my pot again and will return in the early afternoon to see if I managed to trap anything.
Post by: DoubleJ on July 03, 2016, 10:36:56 AM
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
Post by: sled on July 03, 2016, 11:05:31 AM
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.ugh, don't be surprised if people check it for you on the dock while your gone.
Set my pot again and will return in the early afternoon to see if I managed to trap anything.
Post by: NRA4LIFE on July 03, 2016, 11:40:56 AM
Post by: SweetCosmicPope on July 03, 2016, 02:08:52 PM
Post by: Panic Minnow on July 03, 2016, 02:42:23 PM
Post by: WAcoueshunter on July 05, 2016, 09:00:56 AM
Came back to MA 10 yesterday and did fine. It was a bit picked over from the busy weekend (lots of crab, just few keepers), but we scratched out a couple limits over 3 hours or so.
Post by: CP on July 05, 2016, 09:59:33 AM
I almost stay too long though, between the guy dropping his boat off the trailer on one ramp and the guy putting his dingy together in the other ramp, recovering the boat was a challenge. The line was starting to build and things were sure to get even more entertaining as the day progressed and the water level dropped.
Did manage to limit on crabs but it wasn’t a slam dunk by any means. Hopefully the crabbing will improve when the tides mellow out a bit.
Post by: Bronson on July 05, 2016, 10:22:02 AM
Post by: runamuk on July 05, 2016, 10:47:04 AM
We'll be out in 8-2 tomorrow morning with 17000000000 of my best friends.
This was an accurate guess. The crabs were apparently flowing and still are based on the couple hundred pots still out front. The boat launch was epic mayhem on Saturday it was absolutely nuts. I will be so happyto see it go back to just a normal state of a busy summer weekend, man that was a rough day at work.
Post by: SweetCosmicPope on July 05, 2016, 11:40:09 AM
I overheard some guys talking when I rolled up around 7AM on Sunday morning. Apparently, just before I got there, a couple of guys got in a fight over who had a particular spot on the pier. Ridiculous.
I miss having a boat so I don't have to deal with those lunatics on the pier. lol
Post by: hunthard on July 06, 2016, 04:36:12 PM
Post by: yum tag soup on July 06, 2016, 08:46:40 PM
Post by: Bronson on July 06, 2016, 09:09:26 PM
Post by: hunthard on July 07, 2016, 09:24:37 AM