Crab Bait

Gor an easy limit of 5 big keepers.  Must have thrown back 3 limits of keeper size bugs.

Awesome! Sounds like dinner should be good.

I use  Shad caught in the Willy best bait ever and I store my crab in a bug bag that I bought at a dive shop. Second best way to get crab is snorkle as the sun is setting with a gentle incoming tide. Last time I cought seven keepers at Salmon river.

I went out today South of Alki to test pot vs hoop first hand.  I fished from 3-60, right around high tide.  Bait was some old salmon scraps I had.  Tons of other pots out there, unsurprisingly--probably between 10 and 20 other than mine that I could see in the little stretch I fished in.

Pulling the hoop net every 20 minutes or so, I got a total of 4 dungeness, two keeper males.  From the danielson pot after about 2.5 hour soaking there was just one big red rock crab.  I affectionately named them breakfast, lunch, and dinner and they're presently boiling away.

This is a spot I fished a few times last year with the pot, and I only ever caught red rock crabs.  The two crabbing implements were only a few hundred yards from eachother.  I definitely see the advantage of the hoop net if you don't mind frequent pulls.

CJB, What depth were you fishing your pots?

40-50 ft.

5 hour soak with 2 Danielson collapsible traps with 2 chicken legs per trap yielded 17 dungies - 4 keepers.  65' deep.

I went out today South of Alki to test pot vs hoop first hand.  I fished from 3-60, right around high tide.  Bait was some old salmon scraps I had.  Tons of other pots out there, unsurprisingly--probably between 10 and 20 other than mine that I could see in the little stretch I fished in.

Pulling the hoop net every 20 minutes or so, I got a total of 4 dungeness, two keeper males.  From the danielson pot after about 2.5 hour soaking there was just one big red rock crab.  I affectionately named them breakfast, lunch, and dinner and they're presently boiling away.

This is a spot I fished a few times last year with the pot, and I only ever caught red rock crabs.  The two crabbing implements were only a few hundred yards from eachother.  I definitely see the advantage of the hoop net if you don't mind frequent pulls.

I have found that with competition from other pots in the area, the crabs will migrate to the rings.  It is much easier for them to get at the bait.

I've found there are two things that never fail me... Salmon carcass's and tuna carcass's


Good luck

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