What time does crabbing open?

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What time does crabbing open?

Post by gfakkema » Wed Jul 02, 2014 5:16 pm

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Re: What time does crabbing open?

Post by salmonbarry » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:30 pm

Hey Gregg, well I can't find anywhere that states a starting time so hard to see how they can write a ticket if it's not in the rules plus I've seen pots out there at daybreak at Redondo all the time when I have fished there in the past.
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Re: What time does crabbing open?

Post by gfakkema » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:48 pm

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Re: What time does crabbing open?

Post by ResQ » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:55 pm

If there is a time limit, then how can people leave their pots in over night?
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Re: What time does crabbing open?

Post by JuLeeKea » Thu Jul 03, 2014 8:27 am

A little late, but I found this on the WDFW site:
"Crab fishers may not set or pull shellfish gear from a vessel from one hour after official sunset to one hour before official sunrise. All shellfish gear must be removed from the water on closed days"
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Re: What time does crabbing open?

Post by mizm05 » Thu Jul 03, 2014 10:16 am

It says "from a vessel"...what about dropping a ring from the piers? Same time constraints I would assume?
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Re: What time does crabbing open?

Post by hlindsay » Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:27 pm

ResQ wrote:If there is a time limit, then how can people leave their pots in over night?
You can only leave them over night when it is open the next day. If you are in a boat you can't drop them in later than one hour after sunset (on an open day).

As far as opening day the way I read it the opener was one hour before sunrise on July 3 this year. It drove me nuts looking for the 07:00 that I new I had seen before. My pots were in the water around 6 AM.
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Re: What time does crabbing open?

Post by Jake Dogfish » Sat Jul 26, 2014 1:46 pm

I had the same problem! I searched and searched and it doesn't say 7am anymore. They should of made it more clear if they were intending to change the start time. I like the extra time though. :fish:
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