plumbertom
Went to Coos Bay, again, and dropped traps.
Launched at the BLM ramp and went up river to see how the crab were and to fish a little around the RR bridge for rockfish.
Set the traps around the 25 marker In Jordan Cove at about 25' of water and went on to the bridge.
Diddling around bridge for a little more than and hour and a half, we pulled out a couple small coppers and one the went about 2 lbs.
The larger one was had it's tail mostly worn off. Never seen that before.
Back to the traps and although there were quite a few crabs in them, they were mostly too small and a good number of females among them.
We chose not to waste any more bait on small crabs, so we went down river to and set our traps between the range markers across from Pigeon point.
We dropped 5 traps in depths from 13' to 25' of water.
On two pulls there we caught a bunch of crabs many just under legal size, but we did get 17 legal males along with a number of red rock crabs, one of which was a good 7'' across.
Over all for the day we took 19 Dungeness all hard shells and a dozen reds.
We were using salmon heads and carcasses for bait.
Launched at the BLM ramp and went up river to see how the crab were and to fish a little around the RR bridge for rockfish.
Set the traps around the 25 marker In Jordan Cove at about 25' of water and went on to the bridge.
Diddling around bridge for a little more than and hour and a half, we pulled out a couple small coppers and one the went about 2 lbs.
The larger one was had it's tail mostly worn off. Never seen that before.
Back to the traps and although there were quite a few crabs in them, they were mostly too small and a good number of females among them.
We chose not to waste any more bait on small crabs, so we went down river to and set our traps between the range markers across from Pigeon point.
We dropped 5 traps in depths from 13' to 25' of water.
On two pulls there we caught a bunch of crabs many just under legal size, but we did get 17 legal males along with a number of red rock crabs, one of which was a good 7'' across.
Over all for the day we took 19 Dungeness all hard shells and a dozen reds.
We were using salmon heads and carcasses for bait.