When using crab rings, be sure to pull quickly at first to get the ring into a basket shape so you don't lose the crab.A "crab davit" makes retrieval much easier on your back.Grab the crab line just below the buoy with your hand or a gaff.Locate your buoy and approach slowly along the side of the boat.Try to allow 30-45 minutes before retrieving your gear if you are crabbing with crab pots and 10-20 minutes if you are crabbing with rings.Throw your crab pot or ring in the water to start crabbing.
Tie the end of your crab line to the dock or pier from where you are crabbing.Try to allow 30-45 minutes before retrieving your gear if you are crabbing with pots and 10-20 minutes if you are crabbing with rings.Set pots far enough apart so that you aren’t competing with your own gear.Remember to set your crab gear outside of navigational channels.Crabbing in the ocean is CLOSED for Dungeness crab from Oct. bays), beaches, tide pools, piers and jetties year-round. Legal seasonĬrabbing is open in estuaries (i.e. During swift tidal exchanges crab often bury themselves, but at slack water more crab are walking around foraging, since they are being less affected by tidal currents. “Slack water” (the times of peak high or low tide) are the best times to crab. After heavy rainfall and resulting freshets, crab tend to be less abundant in the bays. Hard-shelled crabs will contain 20-30 percent meat by weight, compared to soft-shelled crabs which can be as low as 12 percent meat. You can tell meat quality by the condition of the shell. Beginning in September, crabs will tend to be more “filled out," meaning there is a higher percentage of quality meat. Smaller estuaries and those with more fresh water influence may be good during the late summer through the early winter. You can find some crab in every Oregon estuary, but Coos, Yaquina and Tillamook normally provide the best year-round opportunities.
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