Oregon Coast Crabbing in bays and estuaries. Big dungeness crab. 

I have crabbed off the docks in nehalem bay and lincoln city. Always walked off with at least 5. Nice sizes too….

Oh man... So great! I can't believe your luck with the net and in waders!!! I have been so worried about forgetting a crab measure that I bought a few extra, tied them with some paracord, and attached a carabiner to each one end so I could clip it onto my body and to my bucket handle. I also picked up some cool thick bucket handles that snap on the metal handle that have made a big difference (comfort wise) for my long walks with a heavy bucket. Thanks for the 'shout out' during your giveaway. That's one lucky winner! I hit Garibaldi crab dock (12th St) on Monday (10/3). Two pots went in at 5:45am. High tide was at a little after 8am and only hitting 5' 10". I only got 2 keepers in just under 3 hours. Both were hard shell but coming in at just 6 to 6.5" (nowhere near what I was hoping for) still, no complaints because the day was absolutely wonderful. There was a lot of small crab each time I pulled the pots. Almost no females at all. All of the shells were hard so that is a great sign. When the sun came up, the water was clear enough that I could see a mischievous harbor seal swimming just under the surface of the water. That seal stole the fish heads I had in my pots and turned them both on their sides! I managed to get them to sit correctly on the bottom but learned a valuable lesson about sticking to chicken only in the bays and maybe using fish for jetty crab snaring. The day was so wonderful with the low fog/overcast that I opted to head north to Nehalem Bay. I went into the state park, parked near the boat ramp there, and went out to try crab hawks and a snare. I caught three small females and lots of eel grass 😂 By the looks of your video, I should have ditched my poles/snares/etc and gotten into my hip waders to go out further to just catch them by hand (since I didn't have a net). I was hoping to be on a boat in Nehalem Bay and checking that off my bucket list but sadly my friend (with the boat) was under the weather. I managed to harvest 5 gallons of some very clear bay water from Nehalem Bay and hauled it back home. I boiled up the crab in some of that water and I will never cook them any other way now. The remaining saltwater got turned into fancy sea salt for other cooking endeavors. Let me know if you want some of the sea salt or some of my smoked salt (I'd love to share since your videos have taught me so much).

Wow wow wow. I've never caught a dungeness crab and you made it look so fun and so easy. It might be worth dri ing up fro. California. Where was this?

HECK .. i didnt even know you could crab this way with a net...😮

Congrats on the baby and also on all the monster crabs

Aloha, my husband and I just found your videos! So awesome, just subscribed... Didn't even know you could catch crab like that😲 We're planning a quick trip in either Aug/Sept... Last year we crabbed at Brighton Marina by boat which was Really fun! We'd love to try gathering in an estuary! What bay would you recommend we try our luck?

Hale, I just received the snares, they were probably here yesterday but my wife is afraid to drive the Ranger up to the mail box? I talked her into letting me drive today. I'm very impressed and already have a favorite. You make much better loops than I do! I will also be making my cage more like your design. For those that are not into snaring yet I would highly recommend using these snares!! Depending on your location the 8 ounce is about perfect. The 10 ounce if you have heavy surf or rip tides I can't wait to give these a toss!! Thank you very much. Gene

Oh brother, what a wonderful day picking crabs in the bay, great weather, low tide and clear, with lot of monsters. Yay!

You need another bucket .Wow I just loved how you catching them

Lol the first female had me on the floor laughing.

Haha that one crab just want you to catch him.cute!

Yeah, was thinking the barnacles were a sign of beauty full crabs, the "clean ones are MT"

Congratulations on the baby I think that’s the best way to catch crabs

I’ve never seen crabbing like this. Would you be willing to share a general location? I’d love to take my family and try it. Thank u

gawd i can`t wait for next weekend! hope to do the same thing at this same place.

Where the place yup fishin I'm looking ve Portland

We’re do you get those nets if you don’t mind me asking

Wow what a beautiful spot!! Nice work!!

Just subscribed brother love the video looks like ima love the ch as well so dope thanks for sharring

Wow, amazing crabbing! Mind sharing this area?

I like this!😀

What part of the coast? Depot bay? Lincoln city? Newport Bay Area?

Congrats V! Nice catch guys

Nice video and a Niner fan let’s go!!!

Are you doing any crabbing this season? Will be there the first of Oct. Would be great to have some idea where to go crab snaring.

Can you please share where you got the net?

Hi, would you able to let me know what is the name of beach or location? Thanks.

Love crabs!!

What month was this? Great video thank you for sharing

I don't understand the cravings for these crabs? The claws are small and the rest under the shell is just guts! Why?

Anyone know where this would be? Ive been snaring and using rings, only 2 this year so far just a little over 5 3/4 i just want 3 damn big ones i dont need alot tired of not getting any crab after 6 hrs of sitting.

suppose to measure them before putting in bucket.

What’s the location??

Great video! would love to do this, at least once! Where is this at?

Cool video

What month is this?

Looks like the Necanicum R. maybe?

If you not doing catch clean and cook and eating them because that's the reason why you catch them so by not showing any of these exciting parts your videos have nothing different to offer all crabing videos are the same

New Subscriber, Good Video 📹 👌 👏 👍. Where was you crabbing exactly? Would love to join you before I move to the Philippines 🇵🇭.

the ones with the barnicles are usually hard shells. been a while secse it shed. hand operation, cant type, sorry!!

GOD SAID THAT CRAB IS NOT FOOD.😎🎸

Good choice not keeping crabs with a barnacle on, makes them taste like crab.

Delete we're on the beach or the oregon coast arby's

What is your location? I want to get some crab

If you're going to do this, then you should always take your measuring thing with you. Measure before, you should know better pal.

Hey guys. New subscriber here. Would you take a minute in June and show a rookie how to do this? Would love to do that. We're doing an Oregon vacation in the middle of June and want to crab. We'll be in the Tillimuck (spelling) Bay area in the middle of June. Please let me know. Do a video with a viewer.

Thanks for the Video , but NEVER put crabs in a bucket without getting them measured first .. Fish and Game will Ticket the pants off you for retaining illegal sized crabs ...even if you tell them you were going to release them later ...