Englund Marine maybe?

 

Any commercial fishing store sells them. It online from a commercial fishing store or Amazon.

They still pinch. It still hurts. You'll get bruised but likely not bleed with them.

 

i have seen them at fishermans marine and cabelas, cabelas had a good assortment

 

Just bring along some short kitchen tongs. Gandkids started with them until they got comfortable handling crab. They work out great. You can usually find a good assortment of them in most thrift stores like Goodwill.

 

Wal-Mart sells a pair of Promar latex grip gloves for $2.44 which is tough to beat for very grippy gloves, but they’re not waterproof. You’ll need to launder them otherwise they’ll get really stinky.

I’ve purchased Showa Atlas 660 PVC cotton lined gloves and use them for handling crab and rockfish. They are a bit thicker, completely waterproof and prevent cuts from crab and rockfish. They run $4.80 per/pair at Englund Marine and are just like the orange ones you see deckhands wear. I like the Atlas glove because it doesn’t hold smells like the fabric gloves tend to do.

You can see the gloves working here! 👇🏻

 

Gloves? Hah!
Do it the old fashioned way, aka by pain and spurting blood. Your blood, not the crab's. You learn much more quickly when there's pure physical agony involved. Wear the scars like a badge of honor. Show everybody you're not afraid to demonstrate your superiority over an uppity shellfish.
I showed my niece how to handle an annoyed crab, but I neglected to tell her about the needle-like points at the end of their legs. She didn't enjoy her crustacean acupuncture.

Seriously, see if you can find some asphalt gloves. I used to wear those when I hauled liquid asphalt. They were orange, double insulated, and had a rough surface for grip. A bit clumsy, but I doubt any Dungeness could hurt you through those.

 

Was sorting dungies yesterday in the Bay at Westport.

Tongs are a great idea I'll start incorporating for first timers and kids

I had two new crabbers with me yesterday and showed them a few different methods to hold the crabs.

Got home and was cleaning them and one got me right on the end of middle finger nail, ouch.

 

Isn't getting pinched and bleeding from that wound all part of the fun learning experience? I've crabbed all my life. Yet still got nailed by an aggressive one last year.

 

Gloves???? We don't need no stinking gloves! Better to learn how to handle these things without gloves. Besides.... That's half the fun.

 

I don't need and never needed en but these are folks who it'll be a lifelong story.

 

Thick orange rubber gloves:

Chevron station in Garibaldi
Or use the easy button: Amazon

 

I just spotted these gloves in the coupon section at Harbor Freight for $2.99 per/pair. They say they they’re waterproof and they seem to get very high reviews on their website. I try not to buy anything at HF without a coupon, so I thought I’d share this with the iFishers in case they’re interested and in the market. I think they’re better than the Promar gloves at Wal-Mart, but a step below the Atlas gloves at Englunds.

 

I use a ski glove. Crabs grab on it and you can’t even feel it. Not quite waterproof but pretty water resistant.

 

If you can’t feel it, the crab didn’t get you.

 

I remember my dad using leather work gloves years ago. Crab got him one day and he had to rip the claw off the crab to get him to release. Pulled his glove off and the crab had got him in the web of skin between his thumb and finger. A big hunk of hide hanging there and bleeding real good. Gloves won't "protect" you. I do wear the spandex ones that have the grippy blue rubber. They help grab, not protect. Most gloves don't fit snug enough and just get in the way.

 

I grab them so they can't pinch, no ***** mittens for me.

As for crew, I like to watch them cry and bleed all over the deck, then I make them clean it up.

 

The first thing I do when cleaning crab, is hit them in the shell with a rubber mallet. The only good crab is a dead crab.

 

We get ours at Englunds.

 

They're Atlas 460 gloves. You can buy them on Amazon.