Garabaldi crab?

[BUGLEMAN]

Will be at Garabaldi this weekend. How has the crabbing been over there?

Also, how do you post those little icons in your message any way?

Thanks,

[Bait O' Eggs]

Bugleman
I was down crabbing last thursday thru saturday. Got 71 crabs with 9 pots and only pulled the pots a couple hours each day, but did leave them out over night so the first person on the bay could get a fresh batch of crab. [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]

They were all hard crab, not a soft one in the bunch.

I heard the crabbing in the ocean is really hot right now when I was down there. I didnt venture a pot into the ocean to test that for myself.

To post a icon on the page you just click on the face you want just down and to the left of the box you type in. It will go to the end of your message. If you type them in a you go it works great. If you want to go back and edit them in, you have to type in the command. For example the big green smily face is a colon followed by a capital D [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] you have to put a space on each side of the commands or they dont post. If you click on the icon it will post the command on the message. You will not see the icon until it is sumbitted. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[ 06-15-2001: Message edited by: Bait O' Eggs ]

[KarenLee]

Bugleman

The graemlins at the bottom of the POST A REPLY page can be added by clicking on them as BOE stated. [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img] You can also left click and drag your mouse over them to highlight and then right click to cut/copy them and then right click paste [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img] to place them wherever you want if you added them after you have typed your reply [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[BUGLEMAN]

Ok thanks for the crabby info B.O.E.

I am trying out this icon business.

Wish us good luck this weekend.

[BUGLEMAN]

That was what I though A.lmost O.n L.ine doesn't work with clicking on the Graemlins. I will try the cut and paste again. Well that didn't work. Could someone post the typ in command for the rest of the symbols
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[Jennie@ifish]

Smiley legend and facts

[BUGLEMAN]

Thanks Jennie! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[ 06-15-2001: Message edited by: BUGLEMAN2U ]

[Pilar]

Hey Bugleman2U, say hi to 'Puffin' for me. He'll be crabbing in the Ocean and hitting 3 Arch Rocks tonight and tomorrow morning. Look for the 21' Ed Wing aluminum boat with white top and Honda 130. Be careful if you follow Jon out into the Ocean, he's still looking for Atlantis, 30 or more miles offshore and his gas tank is bigger than yours.

The Ocean crabbing is hot off Twin Rocks by Nehalem and south of the south jetty a couple of miles. Just go south until the pots thin out. The area just south of the jetty has been hit real hard lately.

Wish I could go but I have some family stuff to do for the next few weekends so that I can chase Silvers later.

Good luck and happy hunting.

[ 06-15-2001: Message edited by: Pilar ]

[Bait O' Eggs]

The ocean crabbing story I was told last week while in Tillamook was 2 guys dropped 5 pots in the ocean after work out of Tillamook. Went out the next day and took there 24 from pot #1 and tossed the rest of the legals. Went out the next day took 24 from pot #2 and dumped legals back in the bay. They were taking 5 people out day #3 so they could hopefully empty a few more pots and rebait them all.

Now that is crabing. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[Hookset]

Never done any ocean crabbing. What depths are they dropping pots? Need to know the rope lenght and weight of pots to use. At present, I'm only geard for bay crabbing.

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[BUGLEMAN]

Hey Pilar I missed your post before I left but, I did see a fellow at 3 arch in an aluminium sled. He had a kid or 2 and it looked like the wife was driving. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] I wonder if that was him.

Any way we were at 3 arch also. We had 4 guys on Sat and 5 on Sunday in about an 18' beat up fiberglass boat at 3-arch rocks. We don't feel safe going outside in that river/bay boat. It has Hama jam on the side. rolleyes: We were one crabbing machine out there though and limited the boat on the incoming low tide in about 1-1/2 hours both days. With 4 guys you can keep those rings comming in the boat at a staggering pace. We had 8 rings and it was all we could do to just keep pulling them. They were filling in about 10 min.

That's 108 crab in 3 hours on the water. We figure our haul had a street value of about $1300 [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

We also learned a cool bait saving trick out there. If using rings, or even pots for that matter try this. I think it even detours the seals also. We purchased some of that mesh tubing and cut it 14" - 20" long wire one end and stuffed it with shad, smelt, smelt heads, and salmon carcasses. It all worked. With out mesh the bait would last one turn. With mesh it lasted all day + more. We were talking full rings too. The cool thing was that they could get to the bait a little and tear just enough to keep the sent going as far as I could tell.

The mesh we used was orange and in bulk. It measured about 4" across unstuffed and expanded up to about 8". We didn't expand ours much though.

[ 06-18-2001: Message edited by: BUGLEMAN2U ]

[Hummingbird]

All Ifishers getting the Crabs or should I recoupe that and say Crustaceans to avoid prosecution? I was wondering if the Spiders you have been dilligently pulling up and cooking have any meat in them yet or are they hard shelled and hollow with little meat? Just want to know if it's worth the effort to go this week with the minus tides and all.Any truthful reply would be appreciated. Thanks , [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] Tom [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]