Crabbing in Bandon

Today was crabbing day so we hit the pier at 6:45 am.... too early for us retired folks.

This is the public pier in Bandon where we do the crabbing. We hit Tony's crab shack for a license, crab ring and bait ( a whole $20) and headed for the pier,





Here's me doing all the work again... We use a crab ring which is baited with chicken and allowed to sit on the bottom for about 15 minutes then is pulled to the pier with the crab in the ring.

After pulling the crab ring you size the crabs (must be at least 5 3/4 inches across the shell and must be male. One pull resulted in three nice crabs.

After two hours we had 12 crab (my limit) so off to the crab shack to get them cooked and cleaned.

Back at the trailer we set about cracking the crab. It took about a hour to get the job done and this is what we had when we were done.

We had almost three pounds of crab meat when we finished. We're eatin good in the neighborhood tonight!