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Netarts bay isn't any good right now for crabs but it was a fun drive. Newport jetty produced for me a couple nice kelp greenling and a cabezon that fillet maybe 1.5 lbs. The bite was on right after low tide turned but when I ran out of sandshrimp I had to go. An old timer next to me was catching surf perch and quite a few. I think I am done with those damn sand shrimp, the fish love em, but after 3 dozen the cost of fish starts to rival market prices! Does anyone know where to get pile worms? I guess I will learn to harvest them or mussels. Maybe I'll try injecting rubber baits with shrimp oil....:think:
In HI, those little scuttlers are called sand turtles, & we catch em by staking some stinky flesh like a whole small squid at the upper edge of a GENTLE wave wash. Those critters have a keen sense of smell and will rather quickly be drawn to the bait. We used small mesh nets to dip em. They seem to like burying under the bait too. Over here they are mostly nocturnal feeders, & we used to catch em at dusk for the next day. Hope this isn't irrelevant in OR.
By the way, over here anything that bites sand turtles will also bite squid strips which are way easier.