The Outdoor Line Forum

With the opener for Puget Sound Crabbing this weekend lets get some tips from the ODL crew!

Favorite baits, things to look for, depths etc.

Here is a link to the WDFW website for info on this years crabbing season.
http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/release.php?id=jun2411a

Great idea Ray!
Tobeck and I will be dropping pots Friday afternoon hopefully with fresh chinook backbones from the San Juan opener.

As far as crabbing tips go, concentrate on fresh bait and adequate depth without great slope. In other words, sandy flats.
I think people fish too shallow. Keep 100 feet of rope on your pots. Fish them at 75 or 80 with leaded line and your fine.

Frozen turkey legs and ground herring will attract a limit but know your regulations!
The recreational crab fleet will be watched as never before!
Don't become an enforcement statistic!

Let me know where your pots are and I will check them for you during the show.

My favorite is tuna carcasses but we'll have to wait on a few of those. If I can't have tuna, turkey legs are great and beleive it or not perch is a big producer as well.