Oregon Dungeness Crab

[smoker pete]

Camp Hosting at Winchester Bay, OR and enjoying the fruits of my surroundings - Dungeness Crab!!  For those who have eaten dungeness you know what I'm talking about and for those who haven't - well, you'll know when you do.  They are, IMHO, the best crab around!  Here's what 20 picked crabs look like.  Time for some crab louie, crab cakes, crab salad sandwiches, and of course just crab with a home made cocktail sauce 



Cooked and clean in a 5 gallon bucket



Time for some pickin ...   



Winchester Bay RV Resort in Winchester, OR where we are Camp Hosting ... Salmon are starting to trickle in so yesterday I started pluggin - none yet but soon!!  The RV park is the one closest to the ocean.

[fishingbouchman]

That looks real Good.  love dungeness crab.  You get them in the bay or in the ocean

[pz]

That looks great, Pete.  How did you catch them?

[teesquare]

Just let me know what time dinner is served.... Looks dee-lish!

[ACW3]

I am so jealous!!  I would love to live near someplace like that.  Crabs, salmon, all good!!

Art

[Pappymn]

You are a lucky man!

[Smokin Don]

yea looks good!!! I never had Dungeness Crab but sure will if I ever get the chance. Don

[muebe]

You are a lucky man!

Yes you are!

I want fresh crab like that!

[drholly]

The crab looks and sounds great! What a super location. Look forward to your salmon stories - love to catch salmon on a fly.

[sliding_billy]

You need my address Pete?

[spuds]

The crab looks and sounds great! What a super location. Look forward to your salmon stories - love to catch salmon on a fly.

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[smoker pete]

That looks real Good.  love dungeness crab.  You get them in the bay or in the ocean

We got them in the bay off the crabbing pier.  If you look above the RV park half out to the ocean you'll see a pier and jetty.  The bigger ones come in with the tides.  We used chicken quarters for bait - No smokinKat, I would never use your quarters for bait 

That looks great, Pete.  How did you catch them?

We used crab traps (like the old roach motel - "... they check in but they can't check out! ..."     and we also use crab rings.  The traps stay in the water for 45-60 minutes and the rings get checked every 15-20 minutes.  You're allowed to use 3 traps per person (ring/trap combo) and the limit is 12 male crabs per day, minimum size 5 ¾ inches.

[smoker pete]

The crab looks and sounds great! What a super location. Look forward to your salmon stories - love to catch salmon on a fly.

I bet a nice King (Chinook) Salmon on a fly would be quite the fight and enjoyment Doc.  2 days ago a 25 lb King was caught off the point.  To the right of the RV park - within easy walking distance. Plugged yesterday with no results but it's early.  The Chinooks are just starting to trickle in and the Silvers (Coho) will be in around mid August.  Going to do a lot of plugging the next 3 days 



Another Camp Host caught an 18 lb Chinook yesterday in his boat up the Umpqua River which is what you see emptying into the ocean in the photo above.  He was nice enough to share with us.  I was going to do a chicken stir fry in the wok but decided to hot smoke these gorgeous filets instead!!



It doesn't get any better than this ... We are truly blessed!! 

[pz]

Looks great, Pete - we need to go down to Winchester one of these days - the area looks really nice, and having crab is the icing on the cake!

[drholly]

Those filets look sooooo good!