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I took my wife and son crabbing off the Oregon coast last weekend.
Dungeness crab, ain't none better! The limit is 12 per person.
Legal crab are male and must be at least 5 3/4" across the back. Sunday we caught 33 MONSTERS! Some went 7 1/2".
I prefer to clean the crab before I cook, since I can fit more crab in the pot and the mess is WAY less. Here's Sunday's take at the cleaning station:
We left the pots in the ocean to soak overnight and got two limits on the first pull:
On Monday we matched the day before with another 33. The cleaning station the next day:
I plan on one or two more trips before the ocean season closes on October 15.
P
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firefuzz wrote:Forgive my stupidity, but how do you catch them?
Rob
Seeing as how central Oklahoma is quite a ways from the Pacific ocean, no apologies are necessary.
And by the way, sorry about my football team beating up on Oklahoma and Oklahoma State over the past few years.
We use cylindrical pots covered with wire that act as one-way traps. The crabs get in, and can't get out. Attach 75 feet of rope and two buoys. Add the bait of your choice (I prefer shad, the big kind), soak in the ocean for 1 or 2 hours and viola, crab dinner.
P
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand, of overwhelming power on the other.
firefuzz wrote:Forgive my stupidity, but how do you catch them?
Rob
Seeing as how central Oklahoma is quite a ways from the Pacific ocean, no apologies are necessary.
And by the way, sorry about my football team beating up on Oklahoma and Oklahoma State over the past few years.
We use cylindrical pots covered with wire that act as one-way traps. The crabs get in, and can't get out. Attach 75 feet of rope and two buoys. Add the bait of your choice (I prefer shad, the big kind), soak in the ocean for 1 or 2 hours and viola, crab dinner.
P
Thanks for the info. BTW, you can kick on OU all you want, but ya better lay off my Cowboys.
Rob
Proud to be Christian American and not ashamed of being white.
May your rifle always shoot straight, your mag never run dry, you always have one more round than you have adversaries, and your good mate always be there to watch your back.
Because I can!
Never grow a wishbone where a backbone ought to be.
And here I am in Central Illinois. All there is for me is the tastiest cornfed whitetail in the country. Funny how some leave Illinois and pay big money to hunt elk while people in Colorado come to Ill for whitetail. We are truely blessed in this great country.
rjohns94 wrote:Wow, that crab looks great. well done. Do you steam, boil, bake?
Steam or boil.
Pick leg meat for sandwiches or by itself w/garlic butter and french bread.
Body meat for crab cakes!
I picked all the meat and ended up with 17 sandwich sized freezer bags full.
That's a lot of crab!
P
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand, of overwhelming power on the other.
Excellent !! We've had the same kind of year here in New England with the Blue crabs. They're everywhere and BIG!
