Post by Admin on Jun 3, 2015 10:32:28 GMT
The recreational opportunities listed on the webpage for Netarts Bay are brought to you by wwww.clamdigging.info for the benefit of the members of the Clam Digging and Crabbing Community. The R/V Parks refuse to provide crabbers and clam diggers any current harvest information. We recommend taking your business elsewhere. Crab and dig clams in in Tillamook Bay or Nehalem Bays.
23.4 north 14.5 south Netarts Bay is one of the pearls of the Three Capes Scenic Loop. The bay, Oregon’s sixth largest, is more like a tidal basin than a bay because it receives a limited amount of freshwater from the small streams flowing into it. The absence of a large river flowing into it, plus the isolation of the bay, has spared it from the effects of human development that have degraded the water quality of Oregon’s other large bays. Oysters grown in the bay are renowned for their quality and flavor because of the high salinity of the water. The freshwater entering the bay has minimal effect on the salinity of the saltwater in the bay and for this reason the bay is noted more for the excellent crabbing and clam digging than for fishing. Click on the image of the chart to enlarge it the maximum size.
Navigational information for crossing the bar at Netarts Bay. It is dangerous to attempt to cross the bar at Netarts Bay at anytime. Use caution when boating in the lower bay. Plan your boating activities to clear of the lower bay prior to low tide. The high velocity of the outgoing tide can pull a small boat across the bar into the surf.
Crabbing Netarts Bay45°26'25.2"N 123°57'16.1"W
ODFW Crab and Clam Distribution Maps for Netarts Bay
Click on the image of the map to enlarge it. Click on the Seacor Shellfish Areas for Netarts Bay to link to ODFW's maps of the shellfish.
On 8/29/19 my friend Rick from Estacada. his brother and I dug limits of mostly butter clams from the tidal flats on the west side of the bay. When we returned to the dock a crabbers were loading their boat on their trailer. The had caught two limits of crabs while we were digging clams.
The Big Spruce R/V Park no longer provides us with crabbing reports and neither does Garden R/V Park It seems obvious that the good will exhibited by Zach went with him when left the family run operation at Big Spruce.Clam diggers have to exercise caution when venturing out onto the tidal flats. It is easy to forget about the incoming tide and become trapped by the incoming tide.
Earlier this this year, Zach reported improved crabbing from rental boats Click on the segment shown on KATU's Afternoon Live. The video segment was recorded on Halloween/2017. Crabbing slowed just from the shear weight from the number of crab pots in the bay. While some crabbers are taking low numbers of crab in the double digits. Most crabbers are taking single digits of 1 to 3 crabs.
A Quick and Easy Method to Clean Crabs
This crabbing season 2017 - 2018 is the best crabbing year since 2010. Remember crabbers who rent boats do not spend as much time on the water as crabbers who own their own boats. We encourage crabbers to return soft crabs to the water........ Al and Lorna not only rent boats for 80.00 for 3 hours. The boat rental includes 3 rings or pots with bait Additional crab bait bags run 1.50. Cooking crabs runs 6.00 a dozen. Big Spruce R/V is a first class operation with full hookups and pull thrus. Call I 503 842 7443 or toll free 1 877 651 9342 for information or reservations.
How to humanely kill Dungeness and red rock crabs is the question my wife wants me to answer. She can't stand to see anything suffer. Striking the Thoracic ganglion with a crab mallet kills the crab immediately. The crab does not suffer as it would if submerged in boiling water and neither does my wife. Killing and backing the crabs prior to cooking them shortens the total time it takes to cook and clean large numbers of crabs.
Clean crabs in seconds rather then minutes. I watched Zach from the Big Spruce instruct some crabbers on the method he uses to clean crabs for cooking. Zach's method is fast and efficient and cuts the drudgery out of cleaning crabs.
Click on the following video clip to view a professional crab shaker Picking Dungeness crabs. Using this method cuts the time to pick a crab in half.
Click on the following links for additional information about taking crabs in the Pacific Northwest. Click on ODFW's website crab page or click on Washington State's information on recreational crabbing or click California's information on recreational crabbing. Click on Alaska's comments on Dungeness Crabs and on permits and regulations for SE Alaska. Click on Dungeness Crabs at Netarts Bay. Click on Species Profile for Dungeness Crabs PDF file. Click on Species Profile for Red Rock Crabs to view PDF file. Click on Dungeness and Red Rock Crabs to view information on taking crabs from Oregon's Bays and ocean water.
On 11/27/17 crabber Joseph scores a giant sized turkey crab complete with pinchers at Happy Camp at Netarts. Joseph's wife Christa took the photo. They only caught the one crab so there is more work to do. Double click the image to expand the image to screen size.
23.4 north 14.5 south Netarts Bay is one of the pearls of the Three Capes Scenic Loop. The bay, Oregon’s sixth largest, is more like a tidal basin than a bay because it receives a limited amount of freshwater from the small streams flowing into it. The absence of a large river flowing into it, plus the isolation of the bay, has spared it from the effects of human development that have degraded the water quality of Oregon’s other large bays. Oysters grown in the bay are renowned for their quality and flavor because of the high salinity of the water. The freshwater entering the bay has minimal effect on the salinity of the saltwater in the bay and for this reason the bay is noted more for the excellent crabbing and clam digging than for fishing. Click on the image of the chart to enlarge it the maximum size.
Navigational information for crossing the bar at Netarts Bay. It is dangerous to attempt to cross the bar at Netarts Bay at anytime. Use caution when boating in the lower bay. Plan your boating activities to clear of the lower bay prior to low tide. The high velocity of the outgoing tide can pull a small boat across the bar into the surf.
Crabbing Netarts Bay45°26'25.2"N 123°57'16.1"W
ODFW Crab and Clam Distribution Maps for Netarts Bay
Click on the image of the map to enlarge it. Click on the Seacor Shellfish Areas for Netarts Bay to link to ODFW's maps of the shellfish.
On 8/29/19 my friend Rick from Estacada. his brother and I dug limits of mostly butter clams from the tidal flats on the west side of the bay. When we returned to the dock a crabbers were loading their boat on their trailer. The had caught two limits of crabs while we were digging clams.
The Big Spruce R/V Park no longer provides us with crabbing reports and neither does Garden R/V Park It seems obvious that the good will exhibited by Zach went with him when left the family run operation at Big Spruce.Clam diggers have to exercise caution when venturing out onto the tidal flats. It is easy to forget about the incoming tide and become trapped by the incoming tide.
Earlier this this year, Zach reported improved crabbing from rental boats Click on the segment shown on KATU's Afternoon Live. The video segment was recorded on Halloween/2017. Crabbing slowed just from the shear weight from the number of crab pots in the bay. While some crabbers are taking low numbers of crab in the double digits. Most crabbers are taking single digits of 1 to 3 crabs.
A Quick and Easy Method to Clean Crabs
This crabbing season 2017 - 2018 is the best crabbing year since 2010. Remember crabbers who rent boats do not spend as much time on the water as crabbers who own their own boats. We encourage crabbers to return soft crabs to the water........ Al and Lorna not only rent boats for 80.00 for 3 hours. The boat rental includes 3 rings or pots with bait Additional crab bait bags run 1.50. Cooking crabs runs 6.00 a dozen. Big Spruce R/V is a first class operation with full hookups and pull thrus. Call I 503 842 7443 or toll free 1 877 651 9342 for information or reservations.
How to humanely kill Dungeness and red rock crabs is the question my wife wants me to answer. She can't stand to see anything suffer. Striking the Thoracic ganglion with a crab mallet kills the crab immediately. The crab does not suffer as it would if submerged in boiling water and neither does my wife. Killing and backing the crabs prior to cooking them shortens the total time it takes to cook and clean large numbers of crabs.
Clean crabs in seconds rather then minutes. I watched Zach from the Big Spruce instruct some crabbers on the method he uses to clean crabs for cooking. Zach's method is fast and efficient and cuts the drudgery out of cleaning crabs.
Click on the following video clip to view a professional crab shaker Picking Dungeness crabs. Using this method cuts the time to pick a crab in half.
Click on the following links for additional information about taking crabs in the Pacific Northwest. Click on ODFW's website crab page or click on Washington State's information on recreational crabbing or click California's information on recreational crabbing. Click on Alaska's comments on Dungeness Crabs and on permits and regulations for SE Alaska. Click on Dungeness Crabs at Netarts Bay. Click on Species Profile for Dungeness Crabs PDF file. Click on Species Profile for Red Rock Crabs to view PDF file. Click on Dungeness and Red Rock Crabs to view information on taking crabs from Oregon's Bays and ocean water.
On 11/27/17 crabber Joseph scores a giant sized turkey crab complete with pinchers at Happy Camp at Netarts. Joseph's wife Christa took the photo. They only caught the one crab so there is more work to do. Double click the image to expand the image to screen size.
