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Old 06-11-2009, 05:08 AM
 
Location: NC, USA
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I have been online for the last 2 hours trying to find out the season,location that I can catch them from shore,and size limits,etc. I have found mostly old information and 1000000000 hits for Deadliest Catch.
We would also like to do some shrimping. Can anyone help me with some good information that isn't 3yrs old?
Hummmm, let's see....now....back in the 60's I was stationed on the W.Coast and there was a cat house in Tijuana that was quite famous for it's crabs. This was only rumor, of course, never been there myself..... sorry, couldn't resist.
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Old 06-11-2009, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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I haven't fished for crab since the 1990s, but you used to be able to catch them from shore between Homer and Ninilchik. You take a regular fishing pole and a herring head, wrap the head up in a ball of fishing line and toss it as far out as possible, then wait. No hooks are required. When the King crab go after the herring head, their spines get caught in the bundle of fishing line. Then you just pull them in. Granted, you only catch one at a time, and it isn't always successful. Sometimes the crab gets the herring head and gets away. But if you don't have a boat or crab pots, this is the next best thing.
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Old 06-11-2009, 10:35 AM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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Shoot me or akvarmit a PM when your ready and we will pack a tent and head for the inlet..
next summer your on for this trip!!!
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Old 06-11-2009, 12:30 PM
 
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Someone brought me some crab last night; I'm allergic so I gave it to the neighbor.
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Old 06-11-2009, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Florida
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I haven't fished for crab since the 1990s, but you used to be able to catch them from shore between Homer and Ninilchik. You take a regular fishing pole and a herring head, wrap the head up in a ball of fishing line and toss it as far out as possible, then wait. No hooks are required. When the King crab go after the herring head, their spines get caught in the bundle of fishing line. Then you just pull them in. Granted, you only catch one at a time, and it isn't always successful. Sometimes the crab gets the herring head and gets away. But if you don't have a boat or crab pots, this is the next best thing.
When I lived in Houston we would go crabbing the same way, but with a chicken back. Or just tie the chicken back on a really long piece of twine, throw in out as far as you could and draw it in real slow, the crabs would follow and you scoop them up in a net. The kids had a ball, and it was great gumbo!
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Old 06-11-2009, 06:47 PM
 
Location: southern california
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right here on CDF i crab all the time, i no longer have to go all the way to lake pontchartrain.
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Old 06-11-2009, 07:29 PM
 
Location: Casa Grande, AZ
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When I lived in Houston we would go crabbing the same way, but with a chicken back. Or just tie the chicken back on a really long piece of twine, throw in out as far as you could and draw it in real slow, the crabs would follow and you scoop them up in a net. The kids had a ball, and it was great gumbo!
That sounds like fun.....
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Old 06-11-2009, 10:00 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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Someone brought me some crab last night; I'm allergic so I gave it to the neighbor.
OUCH! That is sad..... maybe dipped in warm butter will help the allergic stuff a bit... Some wine couldn't hurt either...
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Old 06-11-2009, 10:02 PM
 
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Wine never hurts.
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Old 06-11-2009, 10:11 PM
 
Location: Casa Grande, AZ
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Benadryl poured into the wine, with crab and butter...it is a good thing...
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