[unit]

other than on hastings street or king george hwy, where is a good spot to catch crabs in vancouver?

i know most spots are over-crabbed... was hoping someone could speak from experience on a place that they've gone recently and have had good success with legal sized male crabs.

discuss

[vafanculo]

Ambelside in west Vancouver
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[Greenstoner]

All the crab spots are full of mainlanders and koreans. They often illegally sneak home few under size crabs.

Stay away from the crab spots and go further out the sea with a boat (even a inflatable one) you can probably get handful of good size crab in no time. :D


Rent a boat and go for a fishing and crabbing trip from Horseshoe bay is a nice get away too.

If you don't have a boat, you can always try Belcarra, White Rock, or Marine park for crab spots. If you dont have any luck on the day, stop by T&T and buy yourself a big crab on the way home and make youserlf feel better

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

Belcarra? but prepare to catch none in the summer cause the freaking deck is packed!!!! lol

[Kim Jong Un]

Any club in van I guess, if you know what I'm saying ; )
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[FerrariEnzo]

Any club in van I guess, if you know what I'm saying ; )
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other than on hastings street
lol this is funny..

[Greenstoner]

FUCK, i misread the thread..

nwen is right. Any clubs, especially in BOSS, you can get someone prego if you are lucky too

[hirevtuner]

isn't most of the waters in Vancouver too polluted for crabbing or fishing?
i remember going to new brighton park on Hastings st and the water is pretty dark

[PWN'd]

Any club in van I guess, if you know what I'm saying ; )
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:haha:

[E-40six]

I'm guessing i'm not the only one who thought OP said

crabbing IN A VAN

[Senna4ever]

It's illegal to crab between the Lion's Gate and the Iron Workers Bridges, but just to the east of the Iron Worker's, there is a little underwater plateau where Dungeness Crabs congregate. You'll need a depthfinder though. :)

[TRD Rs200]

cresent beach in white rock?

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

this thread is misleading lol

[q0192837465]

you people have dirty minds

[unit]

try to keep this on topic please.

[distanc3]

There is no crabbing after sundown, at least for Jericho beach and Ambleside.

Went to Ambleside last summer, 2 mainlander ladies took 2 superstore(cloth bags) worth of crabs all sizes each. I called the hotline but the ladies left right after since it started raining. Honestly Asian people ruin the fun of crabbing and fishing =T

Definitely, if you have enough people to rent a boat.

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

you people have dirty minds

hey who doesnt

[PWN'd]

so did you get crabs yet? :p

[November]

Aren't they really small right now?

[Noir]

All the crab spots are full of mainlanders and koreans. They often illegally sneak home few under size crabs.

Stay away from the crab spots and go further out the sea with a boat (even a inflatable one) you can probably get handful of good size crab in no time. :D


Rent a boat and go for a fishing and crabbing trip from Horseshoe bay is a nice get away too.

If you don't have a boat, you can always try Belcarra, White Rock, or Marine park for crab spots. If you dont have any luck on the day, stop by T&T and buy yourself a big crab on the way home and make youserlf feel better

My dad stopped crabbing in Belcarra 5 years ago. Even when pushes his traps further out with a boat, people on other boats steals his loot and sometimes his traps.

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

so did you get crabs yet? :p
:haha::haha::haha::haha::haha::haha:

what kind
My dad stopped crabbing in Belcarra 5 years ago. Even when pushes his traps further out with a boat, people on other boats steals his loot and sometimes his traps.

damn tats pretty sad

[achiam]

I caught quite a bit of legally sized crabs at the pier in White Rock years ago with my high school friends. There is a store right on the beach front that sells Canada Fisheries licenses for the day -- I think they're about $13?
Most crabs come out at night, and using raw chicken meat was the best bait -- just tie some chicken thighs onto a crab trap's wire mesh, and after 20 minutes or so there should be a bunch of crabs.

[November]

I caught quite a bit of legally sized crabs at the pier in White Rock years ago with my high school friends. There is a store right on the beach front that sells Canada Fisheries licenses for the day -- I think they're about $13?
Most crabs come out at night, and using raw chicken meat was the best bait -- just tie some chicken thighs onto a crab trap's wire mesh, and after 20 minutes or so there should be a bunch of crabs.

IA. Chicken meat works well. But why use thighs when you can use the bones that you can buy at the supermarkets for half the price? They work just as well.

[notching]

way too early.. wait till at least august

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/1272/2009110337ba89b49a7ceb9.jpg

[2 n r]

me and a buddy went to someplace in north van, i think it was called deep cove?
it was so fun.. we took the boat from there all the way to stanley park, although we later found out that we weren't suppose to cross the area after the ironworkers bridge cuz on the way back we had the coast guard following us and saying something thru their megaphone lol

[Supafly]

way too early.. wait till at least august

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/1272/2009110337ba89b49a7ceb9.jpg

uhhh sorry man, but that:crazy2:

[TheKingdom2000]

give me $50 and i'll take you out to deepcove on my boat and we can go crabbing.

it usually takes about 20mins to get about 4-5 crabs. with old fish as bait.

btw. op do you have crab traps? they get pretty expensive.. the last time we bought our crab traps they were $200 each.

[E-40six]

give me $50 and i'll take you out to deepcove on my boat and we can go crabbing.

it usually takes about 20mins to get about 4-5 crabs. with old fish as bait.

btw. op do you have crab traps? they get pretty expensive.. the last time we bought our crab traps they were $200 each.

whoa, thats pretty expensive for traps, did you get the commercial stainless ones with zinc weights?

[StealthFighter]

ginger and green onion crab makes my tummy happy.

[unit]

give me $50 and i'll take you out to deepcove on my boat and we can go crabbing.

it usually takes about 20mins to get about 4-5 crabs. with old fish as bait.

btw. op do you have crab traps? they get pretty expensive.. the last time we bought our crab traps they were $200 each.

yeah my buddies have traps so thats not a problem. finding a good spot is. going on a boat would be awesome but just looking for the easy way out on a pier or something! i know its not as effective but if i could find a half decent spot i could go there over and over again.

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

give me $50 and i'll take you out to deepcove on my boat and we can go crabbing.

it usually takes about 20mins to get about 4-5 crabs. with old fish as bait.

btw. op do you have crab traps? they get pretty expensive.. the last time we bought our crab traps they were $200 each.

$200 each for a freaking trap? holly


i thought the regular ones are around $30-40 bux

i heard a lot of the off shore sites, the shell fish are not edible, due to industrial pollution.

[Mizter]

I caught quite a bit of legally sized crabs at the pier in White Rock years ago with my high school friends. There is a store right on the beach front that sells Canada Fisheries licenses for the day -- I think they're about $13?
Most crabs come out at night, and using raw chicken meat was the best bait -- just tie some chicken thighs onto a crab trap's wire mesh, and after 20 minutes or so there should be a bunch of crabs.

+1

I haven't gone crabbing in quite awhile but I've been to the pier watching other people hauling some decent sized crab.

[FN-2199]

+1 for deep cove and porteau cove ;)

[johny]

last summer I caught craps with a net at low tide. walked out waist deep and scooped them off the bottom. this wasn't in the lower mainland though :)

[Jayboogz]

Lol I'm a commercial crab fishermen and the truth to crab fishing is time, let your traps soak over night and u should have a decent amount of crabs. You guys got ripped off even I don't pay 200 bucks for a full sized commercial crab trap about 105-120 depending on the weight of the trap.

If u guys have a buddy with a small boat or dinghy just take out a few traps soak em for a couple days and head back out to haul em they should be full of crabs!

Try to stay out of navigational channels or places with very strong tide cause the water alone can take your traps into deeper waters therefor losing the trap. Try to make sure your trap isn't too light or too heavy to pull up by hand.
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[Phil@rise]

I used to live up Indian arm we would toss the trap right off the dock. Old fish heads and guts punctured cans of cat food and chicken were great bait. Good fishing right off the dock too.

[unit]

whats the crab count limit per person?

[A-Dev]

Lol I'm a commercial crab fishermen and the truth to crab fishing is time, let your traps soak over night and u should have a decent amount of crabs. You guys got ripped off even I don't pay 200 bucks for a full sized commercial crab trap about 105-120 depending on the weight of the trap.

If u guys have a buddy with a small boat or dinghy just take out a few traps soak em for a couple days and head back out to haul em they should be full of crabs!

Try to stay out of navigational channels or places with very strong tide cause the water alone can take your traps into deeper waters therefor losing the trap. Try to make sure your trap isn't too light or too heavy to pull up by hand.
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cool. Where do you work out of or fish I guess? Where does the crab go that you catch?
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[ForbiddenX]

crabs?
http://www.nypress.com/images/whatsnew/herpes.jpg

[achiam]

other than on hastings street or king george hwy, where is a good spot to catch crabs in vancouver?

i know most spots are over-crabbed... was hoping someone could speak from experience on a place that they've gone recently and have had good success with legal sized male crabs.

discuss

PS where the hell do you catch crabs on King George Highway? I rarely ever went to Surrey, but isn't that like the main road where Pho Tam is??

[SkunkWorks]

PS where the hell do you catch crabs on King George Highway? I rarely ever went to Surrey, but isn't that like the main road where Pho Tam is??

Hookers. Real dirty ones.

[unit]

PS where the hell do you catch crabs on King George Highway? I rarely ever went to Surrey, but isn't that like the main road where Pho Tam is??

i said that to try to eliminate any continued STD discussion in this thread but that didnt stop anyone.

[Jayboogz]

cool. Where do you work out of or fish I guess? Where does the crab go that you catch?
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I work in tofino on the island but I've also worked in whiterock crescent beach. All crabs I catch go to a wholesaler who buys it bulk sells it bulk to asia.
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[Mugen EvOlutioN]

i said that to try to eliminate any continued STD discussion in this thread but that didnt stop anyone.

:haha: lol good one

[E-40six]

I work in tofino on the island but I've also worked in whiterock crescent beach. All crabs I catch go to a wholesaler who buys it bulk sells it bulk to asia.
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I've been hearing tofino's been getting some kickass numbers recently
you must be raking it in :thumbsup:

[SpoonFit]

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1530/29795101501613644353725.jpg

yee

[Jayboogz]

I've been hearing tofino's been getting some kickass numbers recently
you must be raking it in :thumbsup:

Hahaha numbers r good but good numbers r no good with no price. its primetime to work right now, when locals open prices dip too low
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[E-40six]

Hahaha numbers r good but good numbers r no good with no price. its primetime to work right now, when locals open prices dip too low
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Yeah, everyone is getting their fill before Richmond and White rock open up, then its off season for you guys

[fishing666]

crab is going for like 11.99/lb almost costs more than lobster

[milkmilk101]

If I am to crab at horseshoe bay (w/ boat) How do I pick where to place the trap? or does it not matter?

[tacobell]

Are you renting a boat? If you already own a boat, you should already know some good spots, but anyway, if you are renting, that doesn't give you a lot of time to soak the trap, usually you would let the trap soak for a few days for best results; but anyway, if you only have a few hours, just toss the trap anywhere as long as it's able to reach the ocean floor. You're not suppose to set up traps between lions gate and second narrows, so best to stay to the west of horseshoe bay.

also make sure you tie your trap with a marker so you'll be able to retrieve it. have fun