NorCal Kayak Anglers
General => General Talk => Topic started by: Tim in Albion on November 11, 2020, 09:12:55 AM
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We catch a lot more than crabs in our pots and rings... what's the strangest thing you've pulled up?
Yesterday I came up with several small California halibut, around 8" long, and this monster Buffalo Sculpin. Don't think I've ever seen one of those before. This one had a huge full belly - I wonder how many crabs he had just eaten... there weren't any left in the ring!
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Wow.. crazy fish. I saw someone at the pier the other day bringing in a 3ft long shark. Not sure if it was a ring or a pot
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Cabezon bit onto the mesh OUTSIDE our crab ring, Hitch hiker
It was delicious!
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You didn’t eat a cabi you ate a gremlin
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Not weird, but I have pulled up a seal. Half way up, I thought I hit it big as it was heavy, the wife looked over and informed me that I was unlucky. :smt005
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Those buffalo sculpin are crazy looking. Demon frogs :smt005 I got a nice one jetty fishing a few years ago.
To answer your question, had a sand sole in the crab ring one time.
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When I was a kid I use to use those pyramid traps and one time off Newport Pier I brought up an octopus, it was hanging by one tentacle.
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Wrong kind of crabs.
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When I was a kid I use to use those pyramid traps and one time off Newport Pier I brought up an octopus, it was hanging by one tentacle.
It's weird how they will sometimes hang on instead of escaping. I've heard of them filling a trap with eggs, too.
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I caught a 5 lb Mako shark in my Commercial Lobster trap one time.
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Florence, Oregon I was a kid crabbing with my grandpa and my brother, we pulled up a diver who’s arm got lodged in the trap as we started to pull it. It was from the south jetty pier and unfortunately for him, the state trooper/ game warden was on site checking licenses, the guy had a bunch of small crabs in his bag so he got sighted for that and a long talking to about reaching into other peoples traps.
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Florence, Oregon I was a kid crabbing with my grandpa and my brother, we pulled up a diver who’s arm got lodged in the trap as we started to pull it. It was from the south jetty pier and unfortunately for him, the state trooper/ game warden was on site checking licenses, the guy had a bunch of small crabs in his bag so he got sighted for that and a long talking to about reaching into other peoples traps.
That's hilarious! I bet you thought there were some monster crabs in that trap...
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Florence, Oregon I was a kid crabbing with my grandpa and my brother, we pulled up a diver who’s arm got lodged in the trap as we started to pull it. It was from the south jetty pier and unfortunately for him, the state trooper/ game warden was on site checking licenses, the guy had a bunch of small crabs in his bag so he got sighted for that and a long talking to about reaching into other peoples traps.
That's hilarious! I bet you thought there were some monster crabs in that trap...
Yes we did took my brother, me , and grandpa to pull it. Everyone started booing the guy when they seen he got cot with his hand in the “cookie jar” so to speak.
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I got that same fish in a hoop net at Doran this week. Is this also known as a Sculpin?
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I got that same fish in a hoop net at Doran this week. Is this also known as a Sculpin?
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Yep. Buffalo Sculpin.
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In Humboldt Bay many years ago I was using chicken for bait, and I pulled up one of my rings with the head of a small steelhead in it. It had basically washed into my gear with the tidal current, or it may have been dropped by a crab as it changed focus and went for my chicken. Basically the only time I've pulled up new bait in my gear!
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Swellsharks were in my rock crab pots all of October.. 2-3 at a time in Monterey. They spray water at you if you pull them out. I always just open the side and let them swim off.
I did find sheephead crab, big snails, and urchins as well.
Yesterday I found the carcass of a mola mola - I didn't put it in there so a tide or crab must have dragged it in? Must have been good as that pot was full of Dungies.
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Used to catch cabezon often in the rings off the jetties at Bodega Bay in the early 80s.
Florence, Oregon I was a kid crabbing with my grandpa and my brother, we pulled up a diver who’s arm got lodged in the trap as we started to pull it. It was from the south jetty pier and unfortunately for him, the state trooper/ game warden was on site checking licenses, the guy had a bunch of small crabs in his bag so he got sighted for that and a long talking to about reaching into other peoples traps.
Actually sounds like he was lucky the trooper was there.
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Empty beer can in an empty Crab pot that some skidmark left I guess he thought it was funny around 2004. Had a couple of other pots in the soup so we still did okay.when I share the story the general consensus is you're lucky they didn't take your pot also
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Florence, Oregon I was a kid crabbing with my grandpa and my brother, we pulled up a diver who’s arm got lodged in the trap as we started to pull it. It was from the south jetty pier and unfortunately for him, the state trooper/ game warden was on site checking licenses, the guy had a bunch of small crabs in his bag so he got sighted for that and a long talking to about reaching into other peoples traps.
That's hilarious! I bet you thought there were some monster crabs in that trap...
Yes we did took my brother, me , and grandpa to pull it. Everyone started booing the guy when they seen he got cot with his hand in the “cookie jar” so to speak.
But was he legal size, or did you have to throw him back?
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Florence, Oregon I was a kid crabbing with my grandpa and my brother, we pulled up a diver who’s arm got lodged in the trap as we started to pull it. It was from the south jetty pier and unfortunately for him, the state trooper/ game warden was on site checking licenses, the guy had a bunch of small crabs in his bag so he got sighted for that and a long talking to about reaching into other peoples traps.
That's hilarious! I bet you thought there were some monster crabs in that trap...
Yes we did took my brother, me , and grandpa to pull it. Everyone started booing the guy when they seen he got cot with his hand in the “cookie jar” so to speak.
But was he legal size, or did you have to throw him back?
If he was legal, could you gaff him?