| The trip started with a two day non-resident
permit that cost a whopping $7. You are allowed 6 Dungeness crab
per day, We limited (12) on Friday and caught 9 on Saturday.
As you take the crab from the trap you have to mark your catch
card before dropping the pot again or risk issues if checked. |
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| This is the harbor that we dropped the
pots in, the land ahead is Vashon Island. |
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| Joe getting the boat ready to go Friday morning. |
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| Launching at a private ramp, the public
ones get a bit on the scary side sometimes... |
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| I wish I could say Joe fell in right after
I took this, but he did manage to keep his feet dry... |
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| Prepping the bait boxes for the crab pots,
the bait of choice was thawed (somewhat...) chicken pieces. |
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| Securing the bait box to the middle of
the trap. |
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| Dropping the first pot, the depth was usually
between 70 and 80 feet. |
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| After dropping all of the pots we waited
for an hour ( it is still amazing to me only one hour...) and
started pulling them up. |
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| The results of our first pull, three keepers.
You can only keep males and there is a guide used to measure
size, somewhere around seven inches at the widest part of the
body. |
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| My turn for a pull... |
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| Another productive pull, a few more keepers. |
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| One of the decent size ones up against
a yardstick for perspective. |
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| Posing with one of the crabs trying to
keep my fingers away from the front claws... |
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| Joe being Joe... |
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| Because this was the first time doing this,
the novelty of pulling pots up from 80 feet did not really wear
off until the second day, plus I got tired of listening to Joe
whine.... |
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| We were actually throwing legal crabs back
on the first day, after 2 pulls for each pot (4 pots) we were
well over our limit and ended up trying to weed out the smaller
ones. |
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| This starfish ended up in the pot with
the crabs, we pulled up a similar one on Saturday also... |
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| Joe and Odin getting ready to boil the
crab. |
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| Laying out our catch for Friday |
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| In addition to Dungeness we also limited
(12) on Rock Crab on Friday as well. |
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| Putting the first crab in the pot. |
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| Fridays finished result, 13 Dungeness (one
over limit due to unauthorized hitchiker in the transom of the
boat...) and 12 Rock. |
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| Lori, Joe and Odin all trying to squeeze
on the couch... I think it is time for a bigger couch... |
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| And then we have Todd, who had his car
payment paid by the suckers at the card table (myself included)... |
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