Woooo-hoooh!!!! The testing is in and Dungeness crabs (South of Salt Point and North of the Eureka jaws) are clean enough to eat the guts! All right, you butter-lovers, break out the french bread. Also, commercial crabbers can set their gear in front of Bodega Bay starting at 6:00 AM tomorrow. So, if you were having trouble catching Dungeness in ocean before, it ain't getting any better. At least a lot of the boats have already headed North for their opener.
P.S. Still don't eat the red/rock crab guts. Both because you're not supposed to and also yuck.
Well i guess the fun is over for us sporties. I planned on fishing and crabbing near salt point on saturday Guess i still am but with lots of company i guess. I'm happy for the commercial fleet though. I guess the good times couldn't last forever.
ReplyDeleteRed crab guts. Super yuck. My pots will be in by 6AM tomorrow as well. And pots might not be all that is dropped........
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After seeing truckloads of pots head up the road yesterday it makes you realize how greedy they are. Time to do away with the derby style season. Way better to have pot limits. Donning my body armor now
ReplyDeleteThere are pot limits ab fish. There are 7 tiers of crab permits ranging from 175-500. Without a viable commercial fishery, there would be no sport fishing.
ReplyDeleteIs all i know is i've never seen as many bouys off our coast in all my life. It disgusted me.
ReplyDeleteEric ,thank your fish and game for that,as they wont listen to local crabbers who want the whole west coast to open at the same time so you wouldnt have all the boats running up and down the coast of US to rip off all the openers and leaving locals nada.
ReplyDelete180 ft depth restriction on commercial crabbrrrs. Next season we should try it out see how that works. Please stop defending boats that rape our resources. No commercial boat should ever be aloud inside of 180ft for anything salmon too.
ReplyDeleteDid it occur to you that many commercial fishermen live and fish locally trying to earn an honest living. If you think we're catching so much, buy a commercial boat and see how difficult it is. Our work feeds a lot more people than your work does. The sporties are the ones that don't know how to drive their boats, don't understand right of way, can't back up their trailers, and have mechanical failures while leaving their anchor in the garage, etc.
ReplyDeleteIt's a perfect storm. Open up a third of the coast for Dungeness and all the crabbers are forced into it. Once they have them soaked up, open up another sixth of the area and watch six times the normal number of pots hit the water. Nobody is happy about it. Probably it will be done differently next year. Maybe not better, but different.
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ReplyDeleteOregon requires all boat operators to take a test on the "rules of the road" and issues a boaters safety card. I think this is a good idea for Calif. There are a lot of "sporties" that have no business operating a boat. To all of you commercial harvesters what don't you guys not understand when a bouy is posted that a section of the channel is a "NO WAKE ZONE" It's mostly the out of towners but not all. Sure most of the boats slow down when they go pass the Coast Guard Station but the launching dock at Doran is in the "NO WAKE ZONE" those big crab boats leave a WAVE. Since the commercial opener myself and many others have been dam near swamped while launching at Doran. The Westside launch being closed is a joke! Thank-you Sonoma County. As far as to whether your job feeds more people than my job, How the hell do you know! I'm a farmer! Making an honest living.
ReplyDelete@Hayseed, yes that's what CA needs more regulations and fees, I have been operating a boat since I was 8 years I am 56 now, there is no way in heck I am getting a boating safety card! I totally agree with you no wake comment, I was almost swamped there too, don't think it was a commercial boat though. Idiots with a heavy hand and 100k boat, just because you can afford a boat does not make you a capt. In the end though, no matter how experienced you may be or not, "mother ocean" does not give a shit, and because of that, we all need to be there to help our fellow man, both private and commercial, when that one rogue wave takes you out and into the drink, I won't care who picks me up as long as they save my life. (even if the anchor is left home)
ReplyDeleteAmen Brother! We are all on this planet together, that of course includes the big ocean. Oregon doesn't give you a choice on taking the test and getting the card, weeds out some of the amateurs. Thank you for your almost 50 years of safe boating. I made my first boat when I was 10 years old about the year you were born. Be safe out there, it's good to know I can count on people like you to lend a hand in an emergency.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's cool building your own boat, my grandfather taught me everything I know about boating. Back on the east coast, we use to run the Manasquan inlet, Life was simpler then, boaters waved to ya all the time, no "slow speed zones" except in critical areas. He had a 47 ft cabin cruiser build with twin diesels, had some good time on that boat, all wood, teak deck, the keel came from India, and laid in Key Port, NJ, pretty cool stuff. Miss him, O well I digress, see you on the water.
ReplyDeleteAnnon = eaat coast googone = sacramento property owner
ReplyDeleteDumbdumb, anonymous isn't hard to spell. If you aren't sure, look at the examples available. Googone is what you use to remove sticky substances. You are dumb, you are really dumb...https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=we+goona+find+you....#id=4&vid=1034f3b4b8cc0e0cc53a3cb46ba99746&action=view
ReplyDeleteI remain impressed that ab fish hasn't been "selected against". Way to go dumb shit!
ReplyDeleteWow! I don't get it. ab go to your room and have a time out. The folks from Sacramento have the same rights to fishing our Ocean as people that live near the Sonoma coast. What's the cut off? ab how far do you live from the coast? I'm 6 miles from the ramp, doesn't give me any special rights. Are you an out of towner? Oh and by the way folks that were born on the east coast are still Americans with the same rights and freedoms as you.
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