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Topic: Hmb Report Wed 11/22  (Read 1655 times)

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B0B

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Kind of a late report, but just been running around the last few days (or weeks)

3rd season crabbing from kayak, so i decided this year im destined to take home some crab for the thanksgiving feast.  After days of checking forecasts, i decided wednesday is going to be the day.  Mild wind, 5ft swells they say.  loaded up and set alarm for 430am.  3am rolls through, still awake, with fishing anxiety.  kept thinking if i should even go, since this is actually legit, my first time actually launching and fishing/crabbing by my self. i was tired, did it anyway.  re-set my alarm for 530 for an extra hour of hopeful shut-eye.  headed out at 6am.  i forgot it was a weekday so there was mild traffic.  arrived, got ready, baited up with chopped up pieces of a guitar shark caught in the bay a few months back. launched at around 8.  launched to a very calm harbor.  i knew it was going to be ugly after hitting the jaws.  radioed 69 for some wx intel.  Blackfin answered and confirmed.  saw him while leaving the jaws and about 1/2 miles it was chop.  5 foot and some breakers, i was nervous because i had 3 traps this time, fully assembled, the rear was double stacked with my new pcv rig that i did not glue together.  i thought i better drop one here so i can travel lighter and more balanced.  i pedalled ssw for another mile or so, to calmer waters, to my honey hole spot that i did pretty good on last few times.  worked the 2 traps for about 2 hours.  snaring in between.  a lot of undersized dungies, nothing very impressive except had very good luck with the snare rod.  including a jumbo (jumbo jumbo in my books) dungie. huge legs, everything intact.  was so heavy i had to tighten my drag on my reel.  after i got a bit seasick, i pulled up the traps and headed back to the final trap pulled that one and saw a hmb regular otw back in.  final count was 7x dungies and 10x rockcrab.  the jumbo measured out to a bit over 8" not counting the spikes (legal measurement)  not sure how that stands for cali, but its probably the biggest one ive ever seen, realizing it after messing around with it on shore.

so mission accomplished, crabs for days.  that night and for thanksgiving dinner.  i think ill be crabbed out for a while.

final pic is of a dish we made from a few weeks ago.  vietnamese ginger crab hotpot with vermicellli.  so good we ate it again this week, but i didn't take new pictures.

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« Last Edit: November 24, 2017, 11:57:02 PM by B0B »
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Nice jumbo, and that ginger crab looks delicious! How deep were you on your productive pots that day?

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Gonna need that recipe as well. Thanks. I've enjoyed the chinese style ginger crab, but there's always room to tey something different

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Nice Haul BOB!!! Glad you got some crab to the turkey day table this year! Cheers!
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