Crabfest 2014 Report

Love your pics Dan!  Great quality and artistry with the shots!  What camera are you using?

Rey

Love your pics Dan!  Great quality and artistry with the shots!  What camera are you using?

Rey

GoPro Hero 3 and a Lumix point and shoot. My policy is shoot 100's and hope to get a few good ones.

Man that GoPro takes some nice shots!

I haven't even used mine yet and I've had it for six months. 

I had waaaayyyy too much fun with my camera.

Wow, these are great nostril shots!  Thanks for capturing mine! 

I can only blame myself for not driving up and getting in on the festivities......       

looks like a blast!!!!

Thank you as well Bill for all of your hard work behind the scene. Congrats again Aaron and Tracey for the win and to all that placed. Got my site booked already. See you all soon.

Jedmo

Victor, Narissa, and Dan, thanks for all your hard work in putting this together.  I had a great time hanging out with many old buddies. 

The reports from Saturday were not encouraging and a warm sleeping bag was more inviting than getting into a cold wetsuit, but I felt too guilty and decided to go out.  Thanks to Fuzz, I had about 10lbs of bait in each trap and we dropped the traps as we paddled out. I probably had the most impressive bait.  I had a whole copper that probably weighed 6lbs in one trap.  Having never crabbed at Doran our plan was to follow guys that caught crab the day before.  That plan didn't work too well as we couldn't recognize anyone from afar so we just continued to paddle and would pick up our traps at 11:30 hopefully get back in time for the potluck.  I was lucky and got a legal in each trap with one of those being 6.6" putting me in 3rd place. 

Lapu, "the fish not the cannibal," thanks for letting us share your food, drinks, and campsite.  G-whiz/Jedmo, thanks for feeding us and allowing us to be part of the "in" crowd.

A-hulls, fun hanging out even just for a little.

Nater the crab terminator 

I had the same plan...follow Pondpoacher!  LOL!  Was great to see you and Fuzz out at the honey hole!  Looks like it produced a top 3 finish for us!        Congrats on 3rd behind my devil crab (6.66)!

Looks like I missed out on a great time and wish I was able to make it.  Awesome pictures and reports!  WTG and CONGRATS Pond Poacher and SCTrace!!! 

Looks like I missed out on a great time and wish I was able to make it.  Awesome pictures and reports!  WTG and CONGRATS Pond Poacher and SCTrace!!!

I owe much of my crab manhandling success to you Straightfishin out at HMB this past year!!!  LOTs of practice!!!

jason, I hope you got some pig for missing this... see you next year!

Here are some pics. of my neighbor enjoying the event with the ncka crew and enjoying the waters with a little dip on the other side of the south jetty .  great times as always.  Thanks again Vic and crew for hosting this event.

WOW!!!
Great event....Great People...Had a blast
Thanks a lot Dan for bringing and letting us demo your boats.
and everyone else that helped organize the event.
If you need help next year delegate some work my way I would
gladly help.
 
Met some mighty fine folks, caught 6 legal dungies and 3 rocks
left pots out came back 7 am Sunday and both pots were full ,three
were  keepers.

Thanks again,
tommyD

YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!

YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!

hey Andy, good to see you there!

Right On! Congrats to everyone!!