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By: noreaster
Posted: 7/17/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the water. Overcast and cool to start with, then the cloud cover weakened and it warmed up nicely. Light winds and fairly calm. We left Swantown at low tide, around 11:30. and ran out to Z...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 8/21/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went out on my kayak, expecting a limit of crab! Guess what got it, was out for less than an hour my secret is to have the pot sitting during slack tide! 1 pull and over a limit of red rocks, only r...
By: aceofspades
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2015
Hot Spots: 3
hit the water at 12 and set the pots by mcniel island caught a bunch of rock crab no dungies tho great day alot of biat fish suffacing no fish on the boat alot of crab tho all rock
By: Diverdoyle
Posted: 6/4/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
went down around 3 pm dropped a pot off the dock. Tried to bottom fish but no luck just two suckers . Caught two red rocks there was about ten crab on the dock between five guys left around five
By: centralia165
Posted: 6/5/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Caught many rockers yesterday, one dungy had to let go was a female, all where good size and shells were hard. soak time 45 min , limit for two in about four hours
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 6/5/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kayak out this afternoon with one pot. Soaked first time for 1hr in 50ft of water caught one red rock, and 1 female dungie. Moved to about 80ft and soaked for an hour and a half, caught 1 8+"...
By: sinkerswim
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We prefer to go crabbing near Boston Harbor but with extreme low tides we headed to Zittlel's Marina and launched out of there. Went and dropped the crab pots off anywhere from a 1/2 mile to a mile so...
By: Johnthefisherman
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We put in at Solo Point around 5 P.M. Shot over to Anderson island. Put two pots out and waited. I had my wife and Daughter with me so they couldn't wait to long before having to see if we caught...
By: Sea Squirrel
Posted: 6/8/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 3
There were 4 of us going to McNeil Island. We were after rock crabs, we all love the sweeter meat. We put 4 pots in the water at 10:00 and had the first pulls at 10:45. 5 crab. second pull at 12:00 wi...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 6/11/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not bad for a 40 minute soak off of kayak. Ended up with my limit of 6. No dungies which is fine I prefer red rock, however I would of liked 1 dungie.
By: Larry3215
Posted: 6/10/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/10/2014
Hot Spots: 3
We set 4 pots yesterday afternoon in Wollochet Bay near Gig Harbor. We went from 100' - 160' deep using chicken legs as bait with some pellets added for good measure. Pulled the pots today after a lit...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 6/11/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After trying depths from 100 - 160 feet earlier in the week, we moved to one pot at 65 feet, one at 100' and 2 at 175'-180'
2 small red rock is all we got today.
There were a lot fewer pots out ...
By: jefe43
Posted: 6/23/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 2
A friend and I set out for some crab from Joemma Beach on Saturday 21 Jun 2014. We were in my 14 ft Starcraft with 20hp outboard. High Tide was at 2:44 PM and we launched close to 12:30. We were us...
By: fishingfoxs
Posted: 6/29/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the family to Joamama Beach to crab. The weather sucked at first with rain and wind at times, but didn't do to bad. 5 Red rocks. Was on the boat dock.
By: bruceka49
Posted: 10/28/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't seen any recent posts for crab in area 13 but wanted to take advantage of a break in the weather to get on the water somewhere.
Put one pot in by the green can and other in Oro bay off ...
By: sinkerswim
Posted: 11/9/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Got a later start than I wanted. Didn't get on the water until about 1pm. Launched out of Boston Harbor and dropped 2 pots off with a salmon head in each and a few chicken legs.
Decided to do a litt...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 530 from Luhr beach, went north to deep water dropped pots at 70', 120' 130' and 140'. This was my first time at Nisqually and everything I read said go deep. I didn't think the tide was e...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I went crabbing out of Luhr's Landing around 4pm. I dropped my pots at 80 and 125 feet out from the Nisqually River mouth on flat terrain. We then went flounder jigging for an hour and a h...
By: Five92
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Went out crabbing for the day with the wife, neighbors and two kids. First time out for my wife so we were hopefull to get in some good action.
We launched from Pt Defiance and had a good smoo...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 7/28/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Boston harbor and dropped of 2 pots at 12:45pm. Putted around fishing caught 1 red rock on the fishing pole and 1 flounder. Checked the pots after about an hour 1 keeper red rock in 1, and for...
By: curtisdebell
Posted: 8/4/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the Sound by Steilacoom. Set four traps at about 60 feet deep and ended up with 5 redrock crabs. We got as many starfish as crabs which were difficult to get out of the trap to toss back, ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/3/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My girlfriend and I soaked two pots from 12:30-3:00 pm (low tide was 2 pm). We pulled both pots twice. We caught six red rocks and two dungeness. We kept two male red rocks (5.25", 6") and both dungie...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got a new boat last month (14 foot WC Lund). My fiancée and I took it out for the first time today. We launched out of Luhr's Landing around 4:30 pm; high tide was 6:33. Plenty of things went wrong ...
By: madrussian
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day for crab. Many 8 inch tops...
By: fishingbuds
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day of crabbing! Caught a five man limit of 25 crab. We have 8 pots and pulled them all up twice. Even threw back 4 keepers since we limited out, and swapped out the smaller ones. They su...
