How to Crab Puget Sound 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Puget Sound is opening for crab in the first week of July, 2022 and this video is here to help you get started or refresh your memory on having a successful crabbing season in Puget Sound.
We will talk about:
1. Gear such as crab pots, buoys, line management, c-links.
2. Bait and the 4 best baits to use including how to super charge easily available bait you can buy for cheap at the grocery store.
3 Locations - We mention a few north sound locations, but mostly describe how to use Navionics to find your own crabbing honey hole.
4. Strategy as in a bit about tides, how often to check your pots, etc.
This video somewhat parallels my blog page on pnwbestlife.com/puget-sound-c...
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That boat in the beginning looked really familiar! Have a great crabbing/fishing season kyle!
Dude, once I found the clip with that laugh, I knew it had to be the opening material, lol!
Thanks for the refresher! Excited for the season!
Awesome, good luck!
I really enjoy this video. I’m in the south Puget Sound area just retired. I’m building a Skiff to get out on the water. Your video is very inspirational and informational.
Thank you! Good luck!
Bro!! The brick idea, genius!
Thanks! Gotta save some money for that gas, lol
That's the truth
Excellent video for newbies. Thank you.
Awesome! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Your videos are always very informative and educational. Thanks for the tips please keep them coming!
Thank you, very encouraging to read!
Did some crabbing in Port Angeles, WA last year. First time crabbing in the PNW and the crabs caught in these waters are wayyy different from the east coast blue crabs I grew up catching in the Chesapeake Bay!
Great video!
Awesome! Yeah, I’ve got a friend from the east coast that comes out here to crab that has said the same thing!
great video! Everett was my favorite spot to crab off my friends boat.
Thanks Warren! Yeah it’s fantastic up there!
Thanks, your videos are great. Only thing you might want to cover is the rot cord requirement (or maybe I missed it). Looking forward to dropping some pots for this weekend's opener in 8-1.
Good point! Yeah, there's probably a few things like that I missed. Good luck, I will be dropping in 9 I think.
Good stuff, thanks! Go Hawks!
Thank you and yes go hawks!
Good Video 📹 👍 👌 👏
Thank you sir 🙏
I’m a geoduck diver and I’m mostly off seahurst tract areas, there is a ton of pots submerged and rusted down there 😔
Yeah man, that’s a bummer. I’ve heard crazy numbers of pots are lost each year
This video was such click "bait", and I love it! I've heard of using Razor Clam and Salmon waste for bait before, as well as chicken. The main key was letting any of those choices "marinate" outside in a bucket for a few days to get things nice and funky. It's all about the "smell", but never dawned on me to try some oily Tuna scraps! Thanks for the smelly tip!
Haha that’s awesome, happy to provide smelly ideas!
@@PNWBestLife your tips really stink, but I mean that in a good way!
😂
Enjoyed the video. Is that sounding/depth map app available on iPhone? If so, what is it called? I’d not seen an interactive sounding app for a phone before. Thanks for your time.
Yup! It’s called Navionics.
i use cement in pipes, brick idea is way easier lol
Nice!
Thanks. Very informative video. We live next to salmon bay/shilshole marina and we're headed out in area 10. How do you find good spots? Just trial and error?
Did you watch that portion of the video related to how to find good spots? In front of river / creek mouths. Sandy flats, bays, etc
Great information. I have a question, we are new to crabbing. We put a pot together and went just north of gig harbor bay placed the pot in a depth of about 110 feet. The pot went down great felt it hit the bottom however we only had a 200 foot shot of lead line at the so I threw the rest over and attached the 2 red white buoys. Looked great then we noticed they started to go down. They popped back up and then went back down and stayed down. Wife just about came unglued. So we decided to go boating around and come back in hour and look.
After about 30 minutes of looking I could see the line coming up on the sonar and we were able to spot it just under the surface. Got our pot back and got one Hugh red rock crab. So we’re trying to figure out why our buoys went down. Did we have too much extra line out. What do you think?
Thanks and I think I can answer your question with one word: current. If you put your pot where I think you did, there’s super heavy current right there and it’s not ideal. Thankfully you didn’t lose your pot! When it’s running that hard it will pull your float under, unless you have a super heavy float. I would crab in an area with less current, shallower, a bay or Sandy flat perhaps
Yea maybe we’ll try north of Vashon Island or on the east side north of Maury Island. Thank you for the info.
That’s a better area! I’m not sure there’s a place in the Puget sound then where you choose, lol
I going to try left over brisket fat and maybe cure and see how it works
Any pier for dungeness crab
Where you buying the fresh caught tuna?! Like pike place?
Westport!
You catch any lobsters?
That’s a negative!
You do on occasion, but only the kind that take their shirts off when the SUN finally comes out and forget sunscreen!