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Brad Bortner

Brad Bortner

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Crab season just opened. Five of these bad boys fill your catch card and your cooler.
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Don't hate me for the choice of beer. http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll302/ducknut12000/0C53C226-F2EE-45A9-8934-58E13000B987_zpserxkncqv.jpg[/IMG]
 
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Nice Brad, is the minimum still 6 1/8"? Used to catch them off the RR trestle just north of Whidbey Island, near Anacortes, when I was stationed there in 69-70. At the time I don't remember a limit because one day three of us took 35 home. Best crab feed I've ever been a part of.
 
That's some size crab! Good for you, In my neck of the woods min is 4 1/2". One of the best times of summer is getting a bushel and enjoying the feast.
 
Pete, I believe it's a 6 1/4 gauge now but most of the keepers yesterday were in excess of 7 inches.
 
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Very nice. Came through WA a couple of years ago and bought a couple for my Granddaughter and ....wheew $$$$. The lodge at Crescent Lake just north of Port Angeles used to be famous for their Dungeness Crab Quiche, sadly the don't serve it anymore.
 
Well, Brad, I started salivating just thinking about how darn good it would taste. Made me think of Cordova, AK when I flew out there to ref a basketball game and give the local refs a test. The basketball coach had a crab boat and took me out on a Saturday morning to help him with his crab pots. This is where I found out that when he went moose hunting "NOTHING" was left behind. The crab pots were loaded with gut piles and or bones. Seemed to have worked very well. We had quite the feast that day.
Al
 
Capt. Rich

I grew up picking blue crabs and married a lobsterman' daughter so I've picked a lot of lobster too. My wife couldn't understand why we bothered eating blue crabs but she did remark that there is more meat in these big Dungeness crabs than any chicken lobster The amount of meat in their claws and swimmerets exceeds any lobster claws and one claw exceeds both blue crab claws combined.
 
Brad we just got back from the better coast and we had dungeness for the first time. It tastes way different than blue crab almost like lobster. Much easier to pick too. I'm very jealous of pretty much everything out there.

Nikki is onboard with the move west now, big plans coming up....

Going blue crabbing this weekend for the first this year.
 
That must mean you are an old married man now. Hope you had a good trip and enjoyed your honeymoon on the left coast. Did you survive all that driving?
 
It was epic. I'm sans inter webs at my house right now but I will give a full report soon. Only drove 1100 miles. The roads out there are awesome, way better than here.

Nikki is looking at travel nursing early spring, thinking about a crew cab dually and a slide in to do some more traveling to pinpoint where we want to buy a house.
 
Had a friend who fished and crabbed in Alaska a few years back. He used to send down 50lb boxes of Dungeness Crab that I would pick up at the airport. Man was that good crab. I a envious of those of you with ready access to fresh seafood.


Mark W
 
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