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Post by: CP on July 18, 2024, 07:11:16 AM: I don’t have any fish pics so, how about some crab photos:
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Post by: cavemann on July 18, 2024, 09:07:25 AM: Success is success!! North sound, mid sound or south sound

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Post by: CP on July 18, 2024, 09:36:48 AM: Area 8-2 crabs.

I was headed to MA-9 for Chinook opener but turned back after getting beat up for a couple of miles. I never should have launched.

Good luck to everyone that braved the slop. 3-day season, what a *censored* show.
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Post by: GASoline71 on July 18, 2024, 12:53:45 PM: We hauled in a crap ton of crabs out of 8-1 the first week of the season.

Gary
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Post by: Mfowl on July 18, 2024, 01:29:02 PM: I pulled my biggest pot ever out of area 6 last weekend, 19 hardshell keepers, 6 big softshell males and 8 females. Was easy limits for 2 of us over 2 days.
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Post by: C-Money on August 24, 2024, 07:31:40 AM: Thats an amazing amount of crabs in one pot! It would be hard to push the door open it was so crowded!
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Post by: nwwanderer on August 24, 2024, 12:47:31 PM: Drooling!!! Thanks
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Post by: GWP on August 24, 2024, 01:26:32 PM: Nice! What are you using for bait?
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Post by: Mfowl on August 24, 2024, 03:32:17 PM: Quote from: GWP on August 24, 2024, 01:26:32 PM
Nice! What are you using for bait?

That pot had salmon and tuna cacrasses for bait. It was also about an 18hr overnight soak. It took 2 of us to lift it over the side of the boat.
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Post by: GWP on August 26, 2024, 08:57:48 PM: I had a couple heavy ones and had a couple buried ones that convinced me to put a powered puller on the boat. Works great.
Yesterday I got 5 keepers in two pots on a 3 hour soak using frozen clam guts. Going to have to re up on clams as I only have two more frozen blocks left.
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Post by: Mfowl on August 29, 2024, 05:40:01 PM: Still going strong in area 6! 2 limits of dungies and a bonus 'but! One thing that is bothering me is all summer the biggest crabs we are catching are all soft shelled. Big 7" males, soft in July and still soft at the end of the season, anyone else experiencing this?
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Post by: WAcoueshunter on August 29, 2024, 05:46:23 PM: Heck yeah! No that’s a serious bonus fish!!!
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Post by: Mfowl on August 30, 2024, 01:46:22 PM: Good finish to our summer crabbing season! Enjoy the holiday weekend, lots of options on the water! Back to work for me. :(
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Post by: Gentrys on September 02, 2024, 08:19:53 AM: Lots if females and undersize males in every pot, but also some good keepers. Crab numbers seemed pretty healthy to us. Only pulled our pots 1 time and had over 100 dungies. Suprisingly a few males in soft shell yesterday.
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Post by: Angry Perch on September 02, 2024, 12:43:03 PM: Quote from: Mfowl on August 29, 2024, 05:40:01 PM
Still going strong in area 6! 2 limits of dungies and a bonus 'but! One thing that is bothering me is all summer the biggest crabs we are catching are all soft shelled. Big 7" males, soft in July and still soft at the end of the season, anyone else experiencing this?

Yup. We threw back 4 or 5 big soft crab Saturday in 6.
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Post by: CP on September 05, 2024, 04:48:02 PM: Don't forget to report your catch:

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