Crabbing and Prawning Fall and Winter 2009

Sculpin · **Joined:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:29 pm **Posts:** 117

Well it's that time of year again fella's.

I have seen a couple of reports of the prawning being good. I'm going to head out one evening this week before my moose hunt to see what's there. The crabbing has been good all summer from the reports I have read.

Let's start posting crab and prawning experiences. I'll be posting reports as much as I can.

seadog · **Joined:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:06 pm **Posts:** 96

I would like to start crabbing off nanaimo area, and am wondering about depths. I understood , it was in water of up to 100 ft. So right now, as I have run the gauntlet of commercial crabbers off roberts bank, I see on chart, they are all dropping pots in very deep water , right out into the traffic seperation zone.

And it is a minefield right now for several miles

Sculpin · **Joined:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:29 pm **Posts:** 117

Hey Seadog. In Departure Bay it varies. I have dropped them as shallow as 35 feet and as deep as 120' out in the middle of the bay with some success at both depths. At the Nanaimo Estuary/ Harbour it varies as well from about 45' to 150'. Good to have a few different lengths of rope on hand.

There is definately less traffic over here compared to Roberts Bank.

salmonslayer · **Joined:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:34 am **Posts:** 194

in the Sooke basin i set my traps in 25 -30 feet of water for crab and it varies according to your location but you can get crab and prawn at pretty much any depth not so critical.bait that you use is the trick i use salmon heads but any dead meat is good.used to use chicken or whatever the smellier the better.Am going to put my shrimp traps out soon though.

salmonslayer · **Joined:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:34 am **Posts:** 194

been getting alot of Redrock off of Wiffen spit,they are smaller but i think they taste better.Did not do so great for crab today just a couple of RR crab.Most often get daily limit of Dunggeness in the basin,Sooke has always been good,how does it go ,the months that end in er are good for crab.I have a lot of crab in the freezer,sea spiders i call them......Ss out...........

Sculpin · **Joined:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:29 pm **Posts:** 117

Good reports ss. This is why I started this thread to get folks to share there crabbing and prawning experiences. I don't mean for folks to give out GPS co-ords or anything like that just more the fun of it. I really enjoy it myself and them little buggers are tasty to boot

. Might head out tomorrow afternoon as I am officially out of prawns from last year.

Falcon · **Posted:** Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:58 am

For Prawning I only know Pat Bay, what are some other general area's for them?

Charlie · **Joined:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:27 am **Posts:** 165

Sculpin wrote:

Good reports ss. This is why I started this thread to get folks to share there crabbing and prawning experiences. I don't mean for folks to give out GPS co-ords or anything like that just more the fun of it. I really enjoy it myself and them little buggers are tasty to boot

. Might head out tomorrow afternoon as I am officially out of prawns from last year.

Might want to give Mill Bay, south of Tozier Rock & Southside of Coles Bay?

Salmonator · **Joined:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:42 pm **Posts:** 9

Funny lately last 2 trips I am just getting ALL females ~~~~ males must be real shallow or deep??? you have that happen??

salmonslayer · **Joined:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:34 am **Posts:** 194

get a lot of small females sometimes loaded and only a few big male keepers,probably because of all the pressure on them seeing as you can only keep males and there are alot of commercial in the basin, i try different spots away from the commercial pickets.This sometimes works.Try outside the harbour.Ss

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