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Just keep it to single person kayaks and take your camera.Speed Steel with Meridian.....? Fudge yeah!
Kayak crabbing with Meridian....? Hard Pass!
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Just keep it to single person kayaks and take your camera.Speed Steel with Meridian.....? Fudge yeah!
Kayak crabbing with Meridian....? Hard Pass!
Ok. Here it is. I'm not proud, but this is too good not to share...
Kayak crabbing today. First time ever. No problem, I've got this.
Loaded up 2 of my 3 traps, push away from the dock, get 75-100 yards to where I want to drop one.
I've already baited and rigged them, all I have to do is drop them over the side, 1 at a time.
I drop the very first one, then realize I didn't uncoil the 50' of leaded line. No problem, I start to pull that pot back in. But it's still sinking as it hasn't reached bottom yet. And I pull on the line. Line goes taught, and I go overboard.
Completely under water. The kayak is actually floating, upside down, over my head.
Bait bucket, crab bucket, paddle, everything is drifting away.
Did I mention the outgoing tide?
I finally get the boat flipped right side up, gather all my floating gear (mind you, I'm treading water. And It's the flipping ocean). I haul my a$$ back on the floating slab of plastic. No small feat, as my rubber boots and rain pants are now a billion times heavier than they were 20 seconds earlier.
Lost both traps. Fished with one for about 2 hours. Then saw a red and white float about a quarter mile away. Paddle my a$$ off....Yep, mine. It was the trap that I had initially tried to drop, and because it's float was outside of the cage, it re-emerged at low tide. Even had a keeper in it!
The other trap is gone, baby, gone. Out to sea by now.
Phone is fried. Credit cards are stuck together. All my stuff is a salt water mess.
But I still had a blast...caught 4 keepers total, have never worked so hard for so little.
Want to go crabbing?.
How the heck do you "Make Chicken in the Kitchen"...???Now we are onto razors ... man this thread is making me hungry. (I can smell chicken being made in the kitchen, so just patience. Hehe.)
A lot of keeper sized crab with no meat in them bones!Whats the report as of late for florence or Winchester area? Looking to go this week
Soft shells. It's molting season.
A lot of keeper sized crab with no meat in them bones!
I am down to crab if anyone wants to go! I have cages and a couple rings.
If you guys want to catch the crabs I guess that is your business but you should at least go to where the crabs are plentiful: Lisbon, Portugal.
20 years ago, the ODFW let you keep legal sized females. You could limit out in minutes.
Just a friendly reminder it is illegal to keep female dungenous crab. You're probably eating the guts, which some find a delicacy.The eggs or whatever that red stuff in them are so GOOD.
Just a friendly reminder it is illegal to keep female dungenous crab. You're probably eating the guts, which some find a delicacy.
Just wanted that to be clearly posted so nobody got the wrong idea. I've yet to try red rock crab, I'll have to give it a shot. I'd probably make sushi with the eggs.Yeah, been catching a lot of red rock, you can get any sex and up to 24, the meat is sweeter. The guts/digestive stuff are the brown green stuff, the red/orange stuff is officially the eggs or roe. Again, so GOOD!
The more you know right?