Post by Admin on Nov 2, 2017 3:17:05 GMT
Ghost, Goblin and Crab tides Netarts Bay, Oregon
31 October 2017 - 31 October 2017
45.4300° N, 123.9450° W
2017-10-31 03:30 PDT Moonset
2017-10-31 04:42 PDT 0.92 feet Low Tide
2017-10-31 07:54 PDT Sunrise
2017-10-31 10:53 PDT 6.23 feet High Tide
2017-10-31 16:41 PDT Moonrise
2017-10-31 17:27 PDT 1.39 feet Low Tide
2017-10-31 18:03 PDT Sunset
2017-10-31 23:00 PDT 5.63 feet High Tide
Oh boy! On 10/31 saw us taking Halloween crabs at Netarts Bay.. Click on the images to enlarge them.
We managed to take 4 Dungeness crabs before the incoming tide limited our ability to reach the channel that was active with crabs. Happy with the four crabs we caught we cooked them at the Big Spruce R/V Park. Eating fresh caught and cooked dipped in garlic butter is as good as it gets.
Crabbing before dawn produced these two beauties just after low tide. 2017-10-31 04:42 PDT 0.92 feet Low Tide
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. Using this method to remove the crab butter from eviscerated offers the opportunity to remove all of the crab butter from Dungeness and red rock crabs.
Halloween crabbing at Netarts Bay yields 36 Ghost crabs for 4 crabbers:
I watched Zach from the Big Spruce instruct four crabbers on the method he uses to clean the 36 crabs for cooking. Zach's method is fast and efficient and cuts the drudgery out of cleaning crabs.
31 October 2017 - 31 October 2017
45.4300° N, 123.9450° W
2017-10-31 03:30 PDT Moonset
2017-10-31 04:42 PDT 0.92 feet Low Tide
2017-10-31 07:54 PDT Sunrise
2017-10-31 10:53 PDT 6.23 feet High Tide
2017-10-31 16:41 PDT Moonrise
2017-10-31 17:27 PDT 1.39 feet Low Tide
2017-10-31 18:03 PDT Sunset
2017-10-31 23:00 PDT 5.63 feet High Tide
Oh boy! On 10/31 saw us taking Halloween crabs at Netarts Bay.. Click on the images to enlarge them.
We managed to take 4 Dungeness crabs before the incoming tide limited our ability to reach the channel that was active with crabs. Happy with the four crabs we caught we cooked them at the Big Spruce R/V Park. Eating fresh caught and cooked dipped in garlic butter is as good as it gets.
Crabbing before dawn produced these two beauties just after low tide. 2017-10-31 04:42 PDT 0.92 feet Low Tide
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. Using this method to remove the crab butter from eviscerated offers the opportunity to remove all of the crab butter from Dungeness and red rock crabs.
Halloween crabbing at Netarts Bay yields 36 Ghost crabs for 4 crabbers:
I watched Zach from the Big Spruce instruct four crabbers on the method he uses to clean the 36 crabs for cooking. Zach's method is fast and efficient and cuts the drudgery out of cleaning crabs.
