I talked to some guys down at Kalaloch a few weeks ago that were crabbing in the ocean successfully from the shore....

...anybody ever tried this? Have any success? Willing to share how you do it?

unfortunately, a trip to GI Joe's will cost me eighty bucks in gas....

a quick google image search however revealed this...



...now this gives me something to work with here in Sappho labs.

I've done it in Ak. on minus tides with a rake, don't forget the waders!

In the late 70's I used to go to Bay Center (on Willapa bay) with friends and family,and stay at the K.O.A., during -tides in July.

We would walk out to the eal grass-a very long walk- with burlap sacks and homemade inplements,(a wood handle with 4 tines about 6" long set at slightly less than 90 degrees and max width equal to the minimum width of the crab). We would always get limits. Be sure to get to the water before low slack, as the crab seemed to bury themselves in the sand once the current got much speed.

Rakes and fish nets are for wimps! use your hands! You just have to be quick and pinched enough in the past to learn the trait.

Any mudflat area with eelgrass exposed on a low to minus tide in Puget Sound should produce a crab or two. They will either be on the move (solo or w/a female attached :rolleyes: ) or burried. To find the burried crabs, look for round divets in the sand and eelgrass and that usually the first indicator that someone maybe hiding. Gently dip the toe of your boot in there to see if you feel a shell and your in business.

BD

You can feel those buried crabs with your bare feet if your man enough.

My most favorite memory of beach crabbing was when I was watching some people play volley ball on a make shift court that they had put up during low tide. Anyway they were taking intermission sitting around on coolers and I proceded towards the flats walking through there makeshift court and I looked down and noticed a depression that didn't quite look right, I reached down and "walla" I pull out a lively 7" male dungy burried in the sand in the middle of their court. The looks on those people's faces, I'll never forget it.

B.D.