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Title: 2 weeks til crabbing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: pjb3 on June 21, 2011, 08:25:40 PM: Who all is going on the opener next Friday? I'm going all 4 days!!! :IBCOOL:
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Post by: windygorge on June 21, 2011, 08:52:25 PM: crab don't have any meat during this time do they?? thought it was best in winter. :dunno:
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Post by: lokidog on June 21, 2011, 09:04:13 PM: Quote from: windygorge on June 21, 2011, 08:52:25 PM
crab don't have any meat during this time do they?? thought it was best in winter. :dunno:

Only the commercial and indians get them in the winter.... :bash: They keep delaying the start of the season because they say the crabs are still soft after molting.
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Post by: Ripper on June 21, 2011, 10:00:25 PM: I'll be out at least 1 or 2 days.
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Post by: longknife on June 21, 2011, 10:08:00 PM: Quote from: pjb3 on June 21, 2011, 08:25:40 PM
Who all is going on the opener next Friday? I'm going all 4 days!!! :IBCOOL:

Just got a 21' Trophy w/a, have to wait til i get back from Yellowstone to play with the new toy!! :bash:
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Post by: bowtech721 on June 21, 2011, 10:40:00 PM: Ill prolly throw out some pots over the weekend while im up at the beach house for the fourth... they are some tasty suckers :drool:
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Post by: FC on June 21, 2011, 10:59:42 PM: I'll be out all four days.
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Post by: jeepster on June 22, 2011, 04:08:26 AM: ok................ after attempting to make a living off of crabbing commercially..................... here is an industry secret

this is the truth be told- honnest to god, cross my heart and swear to die washington state commercial crabbing -i-dont give a *censored*- bait secret..............

go dig cockles........smash em up............... put 4smashed cockells and a poud of elix squid or herring in a pot....................that is the honnest to god comercial crab bait recipe................if you are on the coazst...........substitute cockles for rasor clams.................... results guaranteed
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Post by: wildmanoutdoors on June 22, 2011, 06:20:14 AM: My brothers 55 foot crabber out of Westport also uses Razor clams and squid!
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Post by: longknife on June 22, 2011, 06:58:06 AM: Quote from: jeepster on June 22, 2011, 04:08:26 AM
ok................ after attempting to make a living off of crabbing commercially..................... here is an industry secret

this is the truth be told- honnest to god, cross my heart and swear to die washington state commercial crabbing -i-dont give a *censored*- bait secret..............

go dig cockles........smash em up............... put 4smashed cockells and a poud of elix squid or herring in a pot....................that is the honnest to god comercial crab bait recipe................if you are on the coazst...........substitute cockles for rasor clams.................... results guaranteed

Used clams, and sturgeon bait(large sand shrimp) one year, and we cleaned up!

Word to the wise,,, dont use halibut carcas'!! They RUN from them, halibut will eat crab.
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Post by: jackmaster on June 22, 2011, 07:01:28 AM: we have always used the cockles as well, but we found that where we crab they dont seem to be to darn picky
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Post by: CP on June 22, 2011, 07:03:43 AM: The best and easiest crab bait that I’ve found is filleted salmon carcass. I don’t have one yet so I’ll be scratching up some clams and lesser fish until I get a few salmon.
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Post by: pjb3 on June 22, 2011, 07:30:31 PM: The best for me is the reliable chicken, cheap stuff from the market.
I guarantee limits using them but I have good spots so the bait probably is not the secret there :tup:
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Post by: FC on June 22, 2011, 07:57:27 PM: That's what I use too.
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Post by: buckhorn2 on June 22, 2011, 10:46:10 PM: Shad are also a good bait.
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Post by: wints13 on June 23, 2011, 11:14:41 AM: Worked on a crab boat cockles and squid it is
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Post by: superdown on June 23, 2011, 11:31:46 AM: salmon and turkey for us works great! makes sense about the halibut a few year back my dad and i were crabbing off the old navy docks in everett we would use octopus hooks to hold our turkey legs in the ring we had a halibut bite onto the hook i thought it was going after the turkey until i read this. it was like trying to pull up a running outboard motor it was everything my dad i could do to get it to the surface when we could finally see what it was it snapped the nylon cord we were using for the hook. very impessive strength!
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Post by: PolarBear on June 23, 2011, 11:44:40 AM: I use salmon, leftover herring (chopped up), cockles and horse clams, squid if I can catch some, basically whatever I can round up. I'm afraid that the crabbing is going to be not so fresh at Nisqually for the opener. The tribe has really been hitting it hard out there fore quite some time. :bash: They have been maily in 90-120' of water. I prefer the 200+ but you have to weight your pots and have plenty of line.
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Post by: elkoholic on July 06, 2011, 11:08:10 AM: we love to use shad at Westport, we only go off the docks there and usually do quite well, its funny how many times we are asked to sell a few of our shad, as we pull up full rings and 20 ft to either side their rings are almost empty...