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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: CP on July 03, 2025, 10:27:33 AM

Title: 2025 Crab!
Post by: CP on July 03, 2025, 10:27:33 AM: Getting ready for the big day tomorrow.

:)
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: BLH69 on July 03, 2025, 10:52:33 AM: Man i wish! i'm in 10 so i have to wait 3 more days. they should have given us a 1 day opener before the 4th like they used to!
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: trophyhunt on July 03, 2025, 11:09:27 AM: Yeah, don’t open till Sunday in 11.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: MLhunter1 on July 06, 2025, 12:25:48 PM: We got a dozen dungies in area 11 this morning. Light effort until about 730, then it exploded.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: Stein on July 06, 2025, 01:48:55 PM: We got ours on the opener, I'm guessing the 500 pots within 100 yards of ours did well too. :chuckle:
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: WAcoueshunter on July 07, 2025, 09:45:00 PM: Quote from: Stein on July 06, 2025, 01:48:55 PM
We got ours on the opener, I'm guessing the 500 pots within 100 yards of ours did well too. :chuckle:

Haha, I was up north and dropped my pots in 8-2 on my way to the Bubble on Friday. I don't crab up there often, so was shocked by the number of pots in every direction between Edmonds and Tulalip! Clearly an amazing number of crab down there to handle the commercials/tribes beforehand, and then the 10,000 pots over the opener weekend. I did MA10 on Sunday, and it was good too. A million pots down there too though. Crazy what it's become over the years. Blows me away that there's that many crab down there. San Juans are like that too - might be 10 weeks into the recreational season and after a ton of commercial/tribe openers, and you'll still find limits and the occasional 8" crab.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: freshgrease on July 08, 2025, 06:32:37 AM: Me and my Ma crushed it in 8-2 right off our beach on the 4th. All 7 1/2 - 8". Just massive crab in the passage.

The rest of the weekend I was dropping them off in a more public harbor. One went missing and the other one pulled up and the lid was strapped open on sunday :dunno:. My ma's pots were left alone but I had them set a few hundred yards off from mine.

either way I was having the best success at ~30/40 ft. Almost felt too shallow pulling them at low tide but they were loaded compared to the pots at 60ft/70ft.

Good luck out there guys
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: trophyhunt on July 08, 2025, 06:52:44 AM: I know it’s not what people are after, but I like the meat on reds, we caught a ton a big ones in 11 on Sunday. Must have dropped in the red zone.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: HntnFsh on July 08, 2025, 09:42:51 AM: Pretty hard for any other crab to beat the flavor of reds, but unfortunately there ain't much meat in them other than the claw!
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: ghosthunter on July 08, 2025, 09:43:49 AM: Yeah spent the weekend at my brother in laws on Camano Isl. camped 100 ft from beach.

Limits of crab everyday.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: Stein on July 09, 2025, 10:39:00 AM: We kept a few big reds for the first time in many years and I do agree they are tasty. The biggest issue is I can't crack them with my teeth, but other than that they are quite a good meal. I'll be keeping more this year for sure.

Where we were must have been a small rockpile because 30 yards in any direction was dungies but that one hole was loaded with reds. I did get several dungies that appeared to be crossed but they were excellent like the regular dungies.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: KP-Skagit on July 09, 2025, 03:52:38 PM: 4 pots on an overnight set this weekend in 8-1 had over 50 legal crab, very few soft, very few undersize. Didn't keep anything under 3/4" over minimum. Pretty lights out.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: spin05 on July 10, 2025, 05:11:11 AM: Quote from: KP-Skagit on July 09, 2025, 03:52:38 PM
4 pots on an overnight set this weekend in 8-1 had over 50 legal crab, very few soft, very few undersize. Didn't keep anything under 3/4" over minimum. Pretty lights out.

How deep???? Hoping to get out soon around Camano
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: KP-Skagit on July 16, 2025, 01:12:08 PM: Quote from: spin05 on July 10, 2025, 05:11:11 AM
Quote from: KP-Skagit on July 09, 2025, 03:52:38 PM
4 pots on an overnight set this weekend in 8-1 had over 50 legal crab, very few soft, very few undersize. Didn't keep anything under 3/4" over minimum. Pretty lights out.

How deep???? Hoping to get out soon around Camano

Area I crab fishes best shallower, 20 to 35.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: BLH69 on July 16, 2025, 02:02:40 PM: rock crab and dungies dont cross
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: CP on July 18, 2025, 08:20:08 AM: :tup:
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: Stein on July 18, 2025, 11:05:32 AM: Quote from: BLH69 on July 16, 2025, 02:02:40 PM
rock crab and dungies dont cross

Looked it up and you are right. I'll have to take a pic if I get another one, it was a dungie but looked way different than the typical colors and the shell even seemed harder although that could have been my mind convinced of something it wasn't.
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: SeaRun1 on July 18, 2025, 02:58:28 PM: Graceful Crabs look like small Dungies. Little more purple and not much bigger than 4” across the carapace.

SR1
Title: Re: 2025 Crab!
Post by: Stein on July 22, 2025, 03:05:47 PM: These were bigger than dungy legal and had a much more dark, purple/red color. The two we ate were noticeably different color than the rest.