Puget Sound Dungeness Crab Catch Report Information

[Eagle Lady]

~ WDFW NEWS August 27, 2008 ~
Puget Sound Dungeness Crab Catch Report

To submit your June 1 through September 1, 2008 Puget Sound crab report, you will need your 2008 summer Puget Sound Dungeness crab catch record card and birth date.

Your Dungeness crab Catch Record Card, received with your license purchase, is an important management tool for estimating the recreational crab harvest. State law requires that all fishers record their catch of Dungeness crab on their Catch Record Card and return their cards or report online by the date printed on the card even if no crab were caught.

Summer Puget Sound Dungeness crab reports must be submitted electronically http://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov/wdfw/puget_sound_crab_catch.html or postmarked by September 15, 2008.

Catch Record Cards can be mailed to:

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Fish Program Catch Record Cards
600 Capitol Way N
Olympia WA 98501-1091

[SomeSailor]

Submitted mine last night. 60 on my ticket this year and 45 on Dane's. My cholesterol must have gone up 10 points this summer. :)

I do like the online system better though. I always forget to mail mine on time the old way.

[voyager]

Submitted mine last night. 60 on my ticket this year and 45 on Dane's. My cholesterol must have gone up 10 points this summer. :)

I do like the online system better though. I always forget to mail mine on time the old way.

105 overall? WOW next year I am going to just follow you around and drop my pots next to yours :lol:

[SomeSailor]

Yeah... we almost always get our limits and then some.

This Saturday was the first time we had a hard time. Lots of soft shells and tons of small guys.

Lost another pot though. What a way to end the season. :(

[Randygh]

Crabbed 3 hours, no crab. Then had to pull pots and split due to mom's stroke. Unfortunately, never got back over the hump. Real bummer.

[tolly28]

7 east and 7 North are still open til Sept 30th. :argh2

[SomeSailor]

Crabbed 3 hours, no crab. Then had to pull pots and split due to mom's stroke. Unfortunately, never got back over the hump. Real bummer.

There's always the winter season. Come on over and I'll show you a few of my "secret" spots. :)

[Randygh]

Steve--I'd really like to make one more trip over the hump, but don't know if it is going to work out. Our DIL is expecting our first grandson any day, but she hasn't had any signs that delivery is eminent. The Admiral is going to Pueblo when our grandson is born so she can help our son and DIL. She plans on being gone 2 weeks. I'm going to stay home, work and take care of the mutts. Two years ago we spent a Long Labor Day weekend at Bellingham and Semiamhoo. The weather was wonderful and we crabbed just in front of Semiamhoo and got enough crab for a nice dinner. Last year we went over late Sept., got stuck in Roche by chitty weather and left the boat for 2 weeks.

[sunnydude2]

Haven't tallied the numbers yet. My two kids and I have the cards. Hunter Bay was nice to us. Went out with some friends Sunday and got 6 nice ones to finish the season. Looking forward to the winter season if they do have one.

[wickus]

vic and I only crabbed three weekends, but pulled 51 of the tasty buggers in.
This last weekend, the pots were JAMMED packed with crabs, but they were "class of 2009" It is going to be good next year!

[SomeSailor]

Yeah... I was slammed with 6 1/8" buggers this last Saturday. They'll be perfect next year after 1 more molt.

They gain 20% with each molt and they only molt once a year at that age.

Goon a be another good year next year.

[1northernstar]

I had one that was 6.250000000001 when checked by DFW last weekend.
Whew!!

[SomeSailor]

Have never been checked on the boat before, but on the piers they check pretty often.

Interesting story on why you're not allowed to crab on Naval Station Everett anymore. Someone was crabbing off the back of a destroyer. The WDFW guys saw him through a spotting scope, POURING crabs from a trap into buckets off the fantail. Apparently, he never even pretended to be measuring them.

They came to the brow and asked to see the Commanding Officer. He reported he was too busy to talk to them and it later turns out that it was him they had spotted. They weren't able to charge him, but the CO of the base later declared NO CRABBING on his Naval Station. :(

Bummer is it's pretty good crabbing along the quay wall. :(

[3788sam]

He reported he was too busy to talk to them

Well, he was too busy knocking their shells off and droping them in to boiling water and melting butter.

[wickus]

Ken reminds me of the crabbing song I sing when Joan is tied up next boat:
(sung to the tune of "lets go fly a kite" from Mary Poppins"
Lets go kill some crabs
Drop 'em in a boiling pot
Break their legs apart
And dip 'em in butter
Or maybe cocktail sauce
Or into a salad tossed.
Let's all go.....kill some crabs!

She has a Crab lamp on her boat. She also rubs it when we go shopping for tasty crustaceans. Seems to work, or......

PS. we are still out for Labor Day weekend. eat your hearts out, landlubbers.

[SomeSailor]

PS. we are still out for Labor Day weekend. eat your hearts out, landlubbers.

PS... They call it LABOR DAY... not VACATION DAYS!!!

Get back to woork like the rest of us you slacker! :)

(Have fun tally.... glad to see you're still out there... crowds dropping off now?)