off road crabbing - when hobbies collide

Since my wife and I are empty nesters we decided to buy a jeep a few months ago so we can explore a bit more (hobby 1). Naturally, I thought about how my new off road capabilities could enrich my fishing (hobby 2). I decided to drive out to the prime crabbing grounds right offshore of the Oregon Dunes recreation area in Coos Bay. I really do mean right offshore, I often see boats within a couple hundred feet of the shore setting traps. It's about a 5 mile drive on a sand "road" to my favorite spot where I can drive right onto the beach and unload my kayak just a few feet from the water. So, depending on how you look at it I either used no sand wheels or my sand wheels were 35" BFG KO2s. I went out there this morning and, while there was frost on the dunes when I was started, it was mostly sunny and very pleasant on the water. I caught an easy limit of good sized crabs with one JUMBO in 2 hours with 3 hoop nets and tossed back a bunch more keepers after I limited. Since I was alone I just went home and cooked them, but when I take my wife we cook them out there and have a picnic.

Nice write up.  The jeep sure beats the hell out of using my C-tug cart with sand wheels.

looks like you are just up from the submerged jetty. this is a great time to crab lower CoosBay, with the ocean closed to all crabbing, commercial closed until testing shows full crabs, and no big outflow of fresh water yet. I had planned to hit the jetty Friday but some gusty winds in the forecast had me cancel.

@JP52, I love everything about this! #jealous

Pretty cool, what's the story on the PVC on the front of the Hobie?

Pretty cool, what's the story on the PVC on the front of the Hobie?

It's a rack to hold traps/hoops. Here's a link to a description on NCKA

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=93795.msg1056913#msg1056913

Note that I switched to 3/4" PVC because the 1/2" broke after a while.
 

Pretty cool, what's the story on the PVC on the front of the Hobie?

It's a rack to hold traps/hoops. Here's a link to a description on NCKA

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=93795.msg1056913#msg1056913

Note that I switched to 3/4" PVC because the 1/2" broke after a while.
 

Nice solution! I dig it. Generally I only bring one pot with me but I can see great value in a solution like that for sure!