I'm a fan of crab and I only go with stone claws or king legs. With most other crab I always feel like im wasting it's life for literally 3 bites of food. Summer vacation we used to catch a ton and have a boil but each passing year we slowly turned to releasing more than we ate and then stopped trapping all together. I don't see myself going veggie anytime soon but I also don't feel the need to waste any life form.
Dungeness crabs from Oregon (maybe the whole west coast?) are meaty, sort of sweet, and delicious. I don't catch them myself so they're an expensive treat, but good once every year or two. A special treat. When I was a kid birthday dinners were our choice and we seemed to like lamb chops or Dungeness crab best.
>>>>With most other crab I always feel like im wasting it's life for literally 3 bites of food.
In addition to the Dungeness, we also have Red Rock crabs around here. If you go crabbing in Yaquina Bay, you will likely get a bunch of Red Rocks every time you pull your ring up and, unlike with the Dungeness, there are no size or sex limits. But as a practical matter, I only keep the really big ones (over 5" in width) because the amount of meat you can get off the small Red Rocks is not worth the effort to clean them or the life of the crab. Many of the Vietnamese folks you see out on the docks, however, will keep everything they pull up no matter the size. They must have some technique for making the most of the little ones.
Here are some Red Rocks from a trip to Yaquina Bay where I was able to get my limit (25 per day):
Back when I lived in the Willamette Valley a friend had a Boat and many Crab traps... boxes and rings.
So I actually did go out with him and some other pals, and we got in the Yaquina Bay near Newport.
I forget if we used chicken wings or cheap pet-food cans for bait. Fishy stuff attracts Crab, but also Sea Lions.
So we circled around setting up the traps, then checking each one and dumping out the undersize or wrong gender Crabs.
It was really pretty darn fun, and we wound up with almost our limit. However, from a financial perspective, we would have spent less if we dropped in to Fred Meyer and bought a few pounds.
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The best. I don't think that
The best. I don't think that's one in the pic though.
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>>>>I don't think that's one
>>>>I don't think that's one in the pic though.
Nope. But here is some Dungeness I recently caught over in Tillamook Bay:
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Mr. Walstib made a Dungeness
Mr. Walstib made a Dungeness Crab Strudel a couple of years back.
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I'm a fan of crab and I only
I'm a fan of crab and I only go with stone claws or king legs. With most other crab I always feel like im wasting it's life for literally 3 bites of food. Summer vacation we used to catch a ton and have a boil but each passing year we slowly turned to releasing more than we ate and then stopped trapping all together. I don't see myself going veggie anytime soon but I also don't feel the need to waste any life form.
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>>>>I don't think that's one
>>>>I don't think that's one in the pic though. <<<
then what kind of crab is it ? (file pic from google )
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Dungeness crabs from Oregon
Dungeness crabs from Oregon (maybe the whole west coast?) are meaty, sort of sweet, and delicious. I don't catch them myself so they're an expensive treat, but good once every year or two. A special treat. When I was a kid birthday dinners were our choice and we seemed to like lamb chops or Dungeness crab best.
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>>>>what kind of crab is it ?
>>>>what kind of crab is it ? (file pic from google )
Although I am not an ichthyologist, I would say a snow crab.
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Thats a snow crab.
Thats a snow crab.
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"Although I am not an
"Although I am not an ichthyologist, I would say a snow crab."
Is there a carcinologist in the house? :-)
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It was a great soft shell
It was a great soft shell crab season this past fall in the north east. Love them bastards
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>>>>With most other crab I
>>>>With most other crab I always feel like im wasting it's life for literally 3 bites of food.
In addition to the Dungeness, we also have Red Rock crabs around here. If you go crabbing in Yaquina Bay, you will likely get a bunch of Red Rocks every time you pull your ring up and, unlike with the Dungeness, there are no size or sex limits. But as a practical matter, I only keep the really big ones (over 5" in width) because the amount of meat you can get off the small Red Rocks is not worth the effort to clean them or the life of the crab. Many of the Vietnamese folks you see out on the docks, however, will keep everything they pull up no matter the size. They must have some technique for making the most of the little ones.
Here are some Red Rocks from a trip to Yaquina Bay where I was able to get my limit (25 per day):
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Tasty little Crustaceans !!
Tasty little Crustaceans !!
Back when I lived in the Willamette Valley a friend had a Boat and many Crab traps... boxes and rings.
So I actually did go out with him and some other pals, and we got in the Yaquina Bay near Newport.
I forget if we used chicken wings or cheap pet-food cans for bait. Fishy stuff attracts Crab, but also Sea Lions.
So we circled around setting up the traps, then checking each one and dumping out the undersize or wrong gender Crabs.
It was really pretty darn fun, and we wound up with almost our limit. However, from a financial perspective, we would have spent less if we dropped in to Fred Meyer and bought a few pounds.