Kayak crabbing article in the Chronicle

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/11/16/SPGFPMDNOM1.DTL

MolBasser

Do you recognize the pier? That's the green one by CCK. We'll be surfing out of there tomorrow. The author got pinched measuring a rock crab. Too bad size dosn't matter on those.

Paul McHugh, the article's author, wrote....

The sport of kayak fishing has grown in popularity for years.  But I'd not heard of anyone using kayak for crabbing.  So, on the second day of the sport season for Dungeness crab, I thought I'd give it a shot.

I guess he doesn't know about NCKA.  We should invite him out with us. 

Do you recognize the pier? That's the green one by CCK. We'll be surfing out of there tomorrow. The author got pinched measuring a rock crab. Too bad size dosn't matter on those.

4" minimum.

(b) All crabs of the Cancer genus except Dungeness crabs, but including: yellow
crabs, rock crabs, red crabs and slender crabs:
(1) Open season: All year.
(2) Limit: Thirty-fi ve.
(3) Minimum size: Four inches measured by the shortest distance through the body,
from edge of shell to edge of shell at the widest part, except there is no minimum size in
Fish and Game districts 8 and 9 (Humboldt Bay).

MolBasser

Paul McHugh, the article's author, wrote....

The sport of kayak fishing has grown in popularity for years.  But I'd not heard of anyone using kayak for crabbing.  So, on the second day of the sport season for Dungeness crab, I thought I'd give it a shot.

I guess he doesn't know about NCKA.  We should invite him out with us. 

Yeah, I sent him a note already pointing out our website.

MolBasser

GOOD IDEA~

Paul's buddy Brian Hoffman knows about us. Thanks for the regs Mol. I've just never considered keeping a small rock crab. The fact that the season is open all year long ends the discussion on weather it's legal to put out pots before the dungee season opens.