Feeling crabby?
It’s an intriguing question that comes to mind when you check out a meaty (sorry) section of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s online crabbing information pages at ODFW Recreational Crab Fishing, Crab ID (state.or.us)
When you click on the link to “Crabbing reports,” a chart comes up that lists catch statistics for boat and “land” (meaning from docks, jetties, shore, etc.) at eight bays in Oregon.
It provides a rough analysis based on success rates for the most productive times to go coastal.
Winchester Bay on the south coast, as an example, is literally off the chart in mid-June for limits of Dungeness crabs, hopefully pre-molt, which will be explained below.