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Hoping for Christmas Crab for dinner

Started by Tunacious, December 22, 2017, 08:09:57 AM

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Tunacious

Headed over to Garbaldi today to put the crab pots out.

Hoping for some crab for Christmas Dinner.

I'll give a report on how I do.   :food:

Fisherdv

2018 Sea Chaser 16, Honda BFP60

Hydroman

Just took my Xmas crabs out of the freezer, I'm a fair weather crabber.

Merry Xmas to all

Jim
17 Sea Chaser (sold)
21 Skip Tower (sold)
27 Thunder Jet OS (sold)
22 Thunder Jet OS

Fisherdv

I'm planning on steak and crab for New Year's Eve, although I'll be buying the crab from the store  :shrug9:
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Hunter

I'm headed out here in a few minutes to hit area 8-2.    I'll also give a report tomorrow..   
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2017 Hewescraft Ocean Pro 220 ET-HT - Honda BF250 & Honda 9.9 Power Thrust
All Garmin Electronics

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Peddler

Quote from: Hydroman on December 22, 2017, 08:39:45 AM
Just took my Xmas crabs out of the freezer, I'm a fair weather crabber.

Merry Xmas to all

Jim

And you're so close to EPIC crabbing this time of year!

I'll be making a crab dip appetizer for Christmas Eve with my family.  Fresh-caught, picked, and frozen a couple weeks-ago from the Columbia River.  We didn't keep anything under 7 inches wide, and some were close to 8.  We had our three limits in one pick of the gear, could have limited another 3 guys that day.

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to all Arima-holics, whether you own one or not!
Wishin' I was Fishin'

BruceL2_Fish

Sure wish I could get out and do some crabbing.   Got to get the boat back together.   Best of luck to those out there getting after those tasty critters.
2012 Sea Ranger 19 (M. LaDeane)
Suzuki 115 Four Stroke
Honda 9.9 Kicker

Dhil12

Quote from: Tunacious on December 22, 2017, 08:09:57 AM
Headed over to Garbaldi today to put the crab pots out.

Hoping for some crab for Christmas Dinner.

I'll give a report on how I do.   :food:

Quote from: Hunter on December 22, 2017, 09:43:35 AM
I'm headed out here in a few minutes to hit area 8-2.    I'll also give a report tomorrow..   

Good luck guys
Darrell
2018 Sea Legend ht with bulkhead
2018 Yamaha 200
9.9 yamaha kicker

Hunter

So we launched out of Everett and the water was good for WOT so we headed up into Saratoga passage to one of our favorite bays off the west side of Camano and it was totally carpet bombed by the tribe boats.....   So we scrapped that idea, brought up the maps on the Garmin and found nice little bay over off Whidbey that had no pots in sight.....  Per our normal protocol on any new spot, we dropped two prospect hoops for a quick 20 minute soak to just verify "life" and we got two nice hardshell keepers for tonight's dinner..  and also a couple of large females that were fully loaded with roe.   Then stowed the prospect hoops and dropped our four big pots loaded with chicken parts, cheap catfood and mackeral that we'll leave for an overnight soak and see what we get tomorrow..   I'll report back..   

       
2001 Sea Legend 22 (Gone But Not Forgotten)
2017 Hewescraft Ocean Pro 220 ET-HT - Honda BF250 & Honda 9.9 Power Thrust
All Garmin Electronics

"ALWAYS QUESTION AUTHORITY!!"

Markshoreline

anxious to hear, hunter.  I'm weighing dropping my boat in the water for the holiday week with crabbing in mind...  we have family coming from out of state.
2002 Sea Ranger HT 21, Yamaha 150, Yamaha 9.9

Tunacious

I took my 6 pots to Garbaldi and dropped them in my favorite channel.

I have a friend who lives in Tillamook and he has five commercial sized pots in the bay that he had not checked for a few days.

My friend said he would appreciate it if I checked his pots and rebated them for him.  He said I could have what ever crab was in the pots.

The first pot that belonged to my friend that I pulled had 34 legal sized jumbo crabs.  I couldn't get the pot into the boat by myself. 

That was the only pot I pulled today.  Saved the rest for when I go back tomorrow.

My son and I both coach the local high school and middle school wrestling teams and we are taking a few of the boys out tomorrow that don't have fathers living with them.

Should be a great day.  I think we will be cooking crab all day.

Today I pulled one pot and got enough for Christmas dinner.

If tomorrow is like today, between my pots and my friends, I think all the wrestling coaches that help out with the team will be having crab for Christmas.   :applause:

Good Luck to the rest of you guys out looking for dinner.

StreamFixer

Good on you Walt.  :clap:   :bowdown:  That age Kids that don't have dad's around much really miss out..

StreamFixer
'01 Hewes Sportsman 18
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'01 T8 w/ solas 4 blade
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BruceL2_Fish

2012 Sea Ranger 19 (M. LaDeane)
Suzuki 115 Four Stroke
Honda 9.9 Kicker

Hunter

Quote from: Markshoreline on December 22, 2017, 08:17:47 PM
anxious to hear, hunter.  I'm weighing dropping my boat in the water for the holiday week with crabbing in mind...  we have family coming from out of state.

Pulled our four pots this morning.   Averaged 7 nice hardshell keepers per pot.   Just me and the wife so sorted out the picks of the litter to take home.  Also saw several more of the females totally packed with roe... 

Mark.... sending you a PM. 

2001 Sea Legend 22 (Gone But Not Forgotten)
2017 Hewescraft Ocean Pro 220 ET-HT - Honda BF250 & Honda 9.9 Power Thrust
All Garmin Electronics

"ALWAYS QUESTION AUTHORITY!!"

croaker stroker



Do you release the ones with roe ?  Do you eat the roe ? 
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Hunter

Quote from: Croaker Stroker on December 23, 2017, 04:12:41 PM


Do you release the ones with roe ?  Do you eat the roe ?

Females all go back.......no can keep
2001 Sea Legend 22 (Gone But Not Forgotten)
2017 Hewescraft Ocean Pro 220 ET-HT - Honda BF250 & Honda 9.9 Power Thrust
All Garmin Electronics

"ALWAYS QUESTION AUTHORITY!!"

croaker stroker



Looks like a trillion little crabs will be born from the one crab. 🦀
1987 - 17' Sea Pacer - 2004 Evinrude 90 E-tec
1985 - 15' Sea Sprinter - **SOLD**

"Ex Tridente Pax". 🇺🇸

Tunacious

#17
45 keepers in one pot.
My son (on the left) and two of the wrestlers we took out.
The two boys had never been on a boat before today.
The two boys decided there going to save their money and buy a boat together.
This is how it all starts.   :whistle: :jester:


rasslingref

WOW. Nice work Walt and boys.


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gar143

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
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Rokefin

Yea, that's great!  Exactly how it starts, and nothing better than outdoor activities for young men.


We pulled a crab pot a few years ago that had a ball of what looked like a million tiny baby crabs, we just lowered it back down...

Tunacious

Spent the morning running around delivering crab to all the wrestling coaches in town.

Only one weirdo in the bunch that doesn't eat crab. 

The weirdo guy that doesn't eat crab took some crab anyway to take to his annual family Christmas seafood dinner that he comes home hungry from.

In a couple of days Im going to go back and pull my pots again.

Its that time of year.  I just love crab.  I don't know anybody that can eat more crab than me.   :biggrin:

tc808

Quote from: Tunacious on December 23, 2017, 07:17:17 PM
45 keepers in one pot.
My son (on the left) and two of the wrestlers we took out.
The two boys had never been on a boat before today.
The two boys decided there going to save their money and buy a boat together.
This is how it all starts.   :whistle: :jester:



That is Christmas Spirit   :clap:

Fisherdv

Quote from: Tunacious on December 24, 2017, 02:20:50 PM.  I just love crab.  I don't know anybody that can eat more crab than me.   :biggrin:
Once I get started on crab I can't stop. I eat so much, I get that weird seafood buzz feeling  :food: :biggrin:
2018 Sea Chaser 16, Honda BFP60

Rokefin

I'm half weird, I only crab once or twice in a year - shellfish is at the bottom of my seafood list.