Washington State Dungeness Crab diving 

Where in Louisiana? I lived there for 4 years, I miss spearfishing at the oil rigs!

A warm shower waiting for you on Shore! I only make it down to Tillamook a few times a year, usually in fall. I am weak to cold and am plenty happy with my 7 there though a 5mm would be enough and I even know some crazy ppl who rock 3's.

I want to say it was near the end of July

Hey Bobby! As far as diving I learned that by trial and error as a kid. Spearfishing was a mix of the old Hawaii Skin Diver forum and VHS videos! I would later take a PFI intermediate course which helped me to be a safer diver. They now have several different dive organizations and programs to help get people who want to look into diving a little more seriously.

Thanks! I'll see if there's local organizations to start diving!@@okekai8353

That's awesome! I only ever see any type of sea stars on the pylons themselves.

Saw a ratfish in the wild for the first time when doing my AOW at Mukilteo last year, down at about 100 feet.

My friend, the sunflower sea star was hit by some kind of blight or wasting disease starting around 2013 and the population is down to around 5% of where it used to be. Used to be, you’d pull one or two up with every crab pot. However, I haven’t seen one in years, either on a crab pot in deeper waters, or in free diving depths. They’re not exactly sure what caused it.

For myself it's somewhat a personal preference. I do love diving so there's that. More often than not i can pull a full limit of crabs within an hour, some days it's just a few minutes. There's only a few locations where diving for crab is more time effective. Though if there's more people the productivity does tend to go down and eventually traps are better.

People aren’t swimming in the puget sound 🥶

@@Mangold2865 I swim in the Puget Sound daily, all year long! The water was too rough to swim, but I was in for 33 minutes today.

I'm not entirely sure. You'd have to look into regulations for the area as well as any health concerns for the area.

I'm from California and found this place in less than 2 min. EWP

Pilings….

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