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Title: Crab - 2018
Post by: CP on June 30, 2018, 07:57:49 AM: 1st pull of the season - 4 keepers -
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Post by: PolarBear on June 30, 2018, 08:36:07 AM: No crabbing for us here in the South Sound this year. >:(
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Post by: TheSkyBuster on June 30, 2018, 04:13:49 PM: 6 keepers for us today 🦀

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Post by: Gobble Doc on June 30, 2018, 10:35:10 PM: Nice job guys.

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Post by: h20hunter on July 01, 2018, 05:56:47 AM: Great opener for me. 2 pots soaked, 1 in 1 and 2nd pot had 6. 2 went back, big solid crab.
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Post by: boneaddict on July 01, 2018, 06:28:18 AM: how long of soak do you guys do? Do you ever have anyone mess with your gear?
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Post by: h20hunter on July 01, 2018, 06:50:03 AM: I like an hour or longer.

Rarely.
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Post by: h20hunter on July 01, 2018, 06:04:41 PM: Overnight soak in two pots gave up 9 fat fat keepers in 8-2. Tide did not help and blanked on keepers in my few sets this am. No worries. Tell you what friends and neighbors... dining on crab cakes, cold salmon salad and ritz.... think a chunky tuna salad with fresh salmon.....and thanks to my good friend @Goldeneye some elk backstraps seared on the grill then cooked to a juicy medium I am a content man. Got a cold IPA and a fire in the pit. Even the pup got some diced elk in her bowl.
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Post by: Timberstalker on July 01, 2018, 06:23:04 PM: Good clean living, H2O.

I do miss the westdide for its seafood fare.
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Post by: NRA4LIFE on July 02, 2018, 08:01:46 PM: Nice. I let the crazies have their opening day in the sun on the weekend when it happens. Besides, my first mate is missing. Not really missing, just tending family matters back in MI. Will be out next week hopefully.
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Post by: dscubame on July 02, 2018, 08:04:53 PM: Quote from: Timberstalker on July 01, 2018, 06:23:04 PM
Good clean living, H2O.

I do miss the westdide for its seafood fare.

I hear that!
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Post by: boneaddict on July 03, 2018, 09:21:43 AM: Good stuff H20.
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Post by: h20hunter on July 03, 2018, 09:25:31 AM: Hada few more ceab cakes last night.. the last of it. So good. I skip the old bay...wanna taste the crab!
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Post by: Bronson on July 03, 2018, 10:47:34 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on July 01, 2018, 06:28:18 AM
how long of soak do you guys do? Do you ever have anyone mess with your gear?

I usually only check mine twice per day anymore. Pull and re-bait once first thing in the morning, then again last thing in the evening before dark. I used to sit over them and watch them but stopped doing so a while back. I have had two pots go missing in the last 3 years. One I am fairly sure was "acquired" by someone who needed it more than I did. The second one was a neighbors that came crabbing with me. Not sure what happened to that one, it could have floated off due to not enough weight or it could have been stolen as well. For me the overall risk is worth not having to sit on them all day while they are out.
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Post by: JustinC on July 05, 2018, 11:40:37 AM: Any pointers on crabbing in the harbor in from of the West Port marina? I'm going to run the boat out there Saturday morning to see if the we can get a few with the kids.
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Post by: trophyhunt on July 05, 2018, 11:55:01 AM: We did pretty well out of pleasant harbor by brinnon last Sunday, took 17 home, over 100 steamers and ton of oysters! We used chicken in our pots, works good.
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Post by: CP on July 19, 2018, 09:53:54 AM: One would think that there would be at least one legal dungie in that pot but no, female, short, soft, all went back except for one that fed the sneaky seal that hid under the boat. :o
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Post by: scotsman on July 19, 2018, 03:41:37 PM: Just got back from Seabeck area. Ran 4 pots for about 4 hours and caught, I dunno, maybe 10,000 females and undersized males. There were two barely legal males so at least I wasnt skunked. My guess is that the canal is being hammered because all the South Sound folks need a place to go and the Canal is ground zero.
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Post by: WSU on July 19, 2018, 03:47:06 PM: If you are getting only females and sublegals, you should move.
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Post by: banishd on July 19, 2018, 04:59:48 PM: We had 18 keepers over 1.5 days last week in 8-2. Dropped from kayaks, about 10hrs first day netted 8, 6hrs second day and had to throw 2 keepers back.
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Post by: Norman89 on July 21, 2018, 07:22:08 PM: Had a nice few hours off Westport board walk came home with six. Watch the guy next to us catch 2 dogs while we were there that was pretty cool
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Post by: Fishnclifff on July 24, 2018, 07:49:39 PM: Anyone in the Vancouver area need crab bait, I have some shad and salmon carcasses, I had for a trip that I can't make.
PM me
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Post by: hunthard on August 10, 2018, 12:13:17 AM: H20, check your P.M. :)
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Post by: h20hunter on August 10, 2018, 06:45:30 AM: Got it....I'll try and get that to you.
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Post by: hunthard on August 10, 2018, 10:14:07 PM: Thanks
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Post by: Norman89 on August 12, 2018, 09:03:33 PM: Westport pier today got me my biggest Dungy yet! 7 1/2 inch ! Even with the dredge running at the harbor entrance we squeeked out a few keepers