Puget Sound Winter Crabbing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ย. 2021
- Puget Sound has a summer and a winter crab season. Winter is my favorite! Much fewer boats, open 7days a week, and a great excuse to get out on a brisk Autumn day.
Shingo and I head to Seattle (Marine Area 10) to get the crab! Will we get the crab? Or will they defend themselves somehow?! - กีฬา
Kudos for releasing the soft shell crabs 👏💯
Thank you so much! I try to put em back nice and gentle-like too!
Wow! Those dungeness crabs were absolute monsters. One crab would almost feed two people.
Daytime squid while pots are soaking 👍
Thanks! Something to do at least. You know squid. You can hit the jackpot sometimes!
They call it the City of Lights because of the magnetic storm awhile back too.
Ah, yes, yes. How silly of me to forget!
Hey, Blake, you were crabbing in my old stomping grounds when I was growing up. I never considered crabbing there ever. I figured that was a sculpin-only area. Live and learn!
Thanks John! Those sculpin are so big you could ride them with a saddle!
LOL @ big apple and windy city! Awesome humor!
Thank you sir!
That's was great. Best episode in a while. Some good humor in there too. Haha, named after the windstorm in 08... Some nice underwater shots too. That was a brave sculpin and that ratfissh was cool too.
oh man, thought I replied to this but guess I didn't! I hope you're have a great Bermuda holiday with da fam, Chris!
@@WAFishQuest thanks man! Trip was a blast.
I call Seattle the "big needle".
Ha! The big hypodermic!
Nice work Blake and Shingo! 🦀
Thanks Capt Connor! If you want to trade crab for steelhead... Y-you just let me know...
Great video!
Thanks a ton Brooke!
Yesss! Winter crabbing > summer crabbing simply due to volume of pots in the water IMO
Great vid as always!
Thanks as always Nate! Totally agree. 90% of the summer boats are put away for the winter.
Love the video. All you need to know is that they gotta be longer than a dollar and a boy. If it aint that throw em back.
Thank you! Appreciate it!
Good Video 📹 👍. New Subscriber 👌 👍 😎
Thank you sir! I appreciate it very much!
Awesome video and great crab!
Thank you sir! Much appreciated; it was a heck of a day! (In a good way).
I've got family up in the Pugetopia™ area and travel up to see them fairly frequently. There is no time that isn't rush hour up there anymore. :(
Those ratfish on the crab-cam were pretty cool.
Thanks a ton Jarom! Agreed. Wow the traffic is bad. There will a be a very ratfish-centric as the crab pot turns episode by pretty soon!
The end made me lol
The crab defended itself somehow.
Killin the game👍
Thank you Jack!
I am up in the Rocky mountains sitting by a fire. It's 30deg F here. Great video! Thanks for keeping me entertained up here!
for you Bob? anything!
That looks like so much fun! 🦀
Thank you! It's a ton of fun. Summer season should open early July!
Great channel! As a recently relocated fisherman in Olympia, this is priceless information. Good production too. I look forward to putting what I learn to use!
thanks much Alfred! Means a lot!
Ouch! Looks like it was worth it though! Mike.
A limit of dungies will do in a pinch. Thanks as always Mike!
Nice haul of winter crab, and even catching squid before 5he day was done. I haven't gotten out for either this winter. Thanks for sharing your adventure!
The Piscatorian
thanks so much! really appreciate it. We should collab on Offutt or something some time!
I really need to get a boat jeez. I'm going crab snaring this weekend though. Great vid again.
Good luck! Boats, like most things, are a tradeoff. That's for sure! The best way to do it... Is probably just have a really good friend with a boat! Ha ha.
@@WAFishQuest You are a wise, wise man.
Another great episode as always!
Thanks Gary! I do it all for you!
Good job🙂👍🏻
Thank you Ilona!
@@WAFishQuest you’re welcome😃
Nice work guys.!!
Thanks Curt! You get the air... I'll get the water... I guess animals that walk on land are safe.
Crabbing is open year round in British Columbia, Lots of great places to Crab around Metro Vancouver and Metro Victoria from Shore and Boats ,
That's great! Thanks for watching and the comment. It's open year round in Washington in some areas. The outer coast and Columbia River. However, Puget Sound is so populated, the seasons are pretty short. Summer season is two months, and winter is often another two.
@@WAFishQuest yes the region between Seattle Vancouver and Victoria is around 9 million anything happens in the area say from The Fraser River or any along the Puget sound up to Vancouver it will affect the whole area we share ,,
you are SO funny... Windy city and big apple!
Thanks Doc! I appreciate it!
Just subbed!
I have family in West Seattle and Port Angeles. Never been fishing up there, it’s a plan one of these years.
That's awesome. Thanks a ton for the watch and sub Walter! (Sorry I missed it until now).
Cool Chimeras
Thanks Johnny Abalone! (I say your whole name because it's also very cool)!
Nice work boys! Some real quality dungies
Thanks Bo! Hope you're getting out!
Love the underwater footage!
Enjoying the videos 😎
thanks so much GirlFinFishing! Really appreciate it!
sub'd too!
@@WAFishQuest appreciate the support.
Keep slayin’🎣
I remember the wind storm of ‘08. It’s a miracle I made it out alive, so many lives lost.
Glad you made it out Zack! Wind speeds topped 15 mph. It was insane!
Another Slam Dunk of a video. Thanks Blake. I hope when this pandemic is somewhat over - maybe next August/September - I will head down to Westport (from Vancouver, BC) for a variety of shore/dock fishing. Cheers!
I can't believe I missed this great comment Joe! thank you so much sir!!
Arnie was massive 👊
thanks Kold!! Mr. Crab-lympian!
Excellent view thank you. Wish you introduced your boat mate and shoe a fresh cook up of a few of your fresh catch. Thank you for the show!
Thanks! That's Shingo! He's in a lot of episodes since about 2016. I appreciate the cooking suggestion- will try that sometime.
I’ve also heard it called the Queen City of the Rockies due to the rocky shore.
Ha! I actually had to look that one up...
You really take your chances in in puget sound ..check the Washington shellfish safety map it’s polluted all the way up to Elliot bay and as far as snohomish and tulalip bay .. I go out past west ports port and crab out there it’s a little cleaner
Thanks Nic! I would also avoid Elliot. In other areas, a Department of Ecology study reported mist toxics concentrate on the viscera. So I would recommend cleaning your crab pre cooking, in populated areas.
Super, I wish you good luck, have a good day, stay connected!
thank you thank you!
Great job
Thank you!
They also call Seattle, the "City of Brotherly Love" because of the lack of crime and drugs downtown.😄
A real rose city!
I kill it generally on the cheepo's as well
All hail the cheap-Os! I think the expensive ones are best for overnight soaks and that's about it.
wowser!
Thanks as always Wojomojo! (My phone auto-fills "Wojomojo" if I get to "Woj" now)!
That a good ideas using basketball for buoy
Thanks! They float extremely well!
Think that might be a race marker?
Ohhhhh. That's cool if so. Even better than my floating teepee theory... Thanks Greg!
I thought it was the city of angels? Or is it the city of angles? Hhmmm
Oh yeah! 'Cause that one time (and only one time) the Angels played the Mariners here!
I’m tryna learn so is it okay or illegal to pick n choose for the bigger ones or what you catch is what you take home? For example that monster at the end if you reached you limit can you toss a smaller one that’s in the cooler already from past catch for that monster????? Or is that not good idk I’m asking cause that’s what I would do but I don’t know the rules
It's a great question! I am not sure. I do it, but I can't say it's legal for sure. I don't personally do it if a crab has been in the cooler for 8 hours and is probably brain damaged or something. But if it's my last series of pulls of the day, I definitely take the biggest ones from the four pulls if I've marked my 5. Sorry that I don't know the answer in this one. I've been checked before, and the game wardens didn't ask anything like that. Just checked names on the buoys, number of pots, and that all crabs on the boat where marked on my catch card. Good crabbing sir!
Just out of curiosity, how much does it hurt being pinched by a crab? Ive heard "they can take your finger off" but I figure that must be hyperbolic. Great video! Curious to see all of the rat fish on the crab cam.
Thanks John! Oh my. thanks Mochidad for letting us know that! I got off light. I've been pinched a few times. Every time it's just hurt and I recovery in an hour or so. I've never pulled one off. I just cradle them back in the water and they've released after they feel safe. I've never had one get me square on a joint tho. Once as a kid, a red rock got me. They are a lot stronger. A nearby adult grabbed it and threw it off. It tore my skin, but I suffered no permanent damage.
No one calls Seattle big apple. Hahaha
"The city that never sleeps," then!
Great video, thanks! I love the crab cam! How deep have you lowered your cameras?
Thank you! I've lowered them to about 100 feet and they've been ok. Haven't picked up light that deep tho. I think deepest I've got light is about 70. But that was in the winter. In the summer, they can lose light around 50.
@@WAFishQuest Awesome, thanks! I was wondering about the light drop off. Great idea.
I call Seattle a Cesspool.
Ol' cessy!
What the heck. The finger, is it dislocated, broken, or just painfully flattish at the knuckle?
oh No !! I hope not !!?! :) Yikes ! & Ouch ! Thanks for the video Blake & Shingo !!
Hi Brett! It was fine. After an hour looked like nothing happened. It was a little tenderized there for a couple of days. Kind of like slamming your finger in a door or something.
Get show!!!
**Great show**
Appreciate it! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Hey where did you launch from? I just got a Oldtown kayak and am thinking trying out some squid jigging. Thanks
Hey King Bee! I tell you King Bee, it was a AHHH BEEEES! My face and eyes!!
@@WAFishQuest Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Fun day. What happened to your pot puller?
Thanks FishKepr! Still got it! I don't usually break it out unless I'm dropping over about 150. Oh, and this was Shingo's besides. (although he also has one)!
I thought Seattle was called the emerald city.
It is. I referenced NY and Chicago there. Just my brand of humor.
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Any spots for a newbie to EVERETT .WA.... no boat, so shoreline / dock only. Thanks
Hey CraigMan. Unfortunately I'm not a great guy to ask. I live south of Seattle and rarely travel thru/to it. The Eddie Vine boat ramp has a small pier you can throw you a pot of off. I know the Edmonds Pier is pretty nice as far as Washington piers go, but haven't crabbed it myself. If you're ever on the coast, the docks of Westport are fun to crab.
@@WAFishQuest true! Thanks
Is this by West Seattle?
Yep! Well, I'm not a Seattleite, So I may be using that term wrong.
I don't usually post comments but. I am virtually certain that if you ask anyone in the country what city is called "The Big Apple" their answer will be New York City. NYC has been known as The Big Apple since at least the 1970's. I've never heard of Seattle being referred to that way. Just a friendly FYI.
Thank you James! I was just bring a wise apple (speaking of apples). The Windy City reference was Chicago. Sometimes I play the fool. I super appreciate you comment, and hope you come more in the future! : )