2/07 bug hunt

[madscientist]

Went to work early so I could get out early. Hit the water a little after 3:30 and dropped the empty nets on the spot, then went fishing. Worked around the usual yoyo spots but only found macs everywhere. Sabiki'd several dozen as a friend needed bait. Watched the sunset with a live bait drifting, hoping for some lucky WSB action, but nothing but dogs and whales. Headed to the nets, baited em up, and watched the big swells break closer than we'd like. Crawl started with some nonsense...





But the bugs soon followed. Pretty good action with many multi-bug pulls. Lots of just shorts and lots of crawdads. Couple big spider crabs that this guy wanted to wrestle with.



Ended up with seven by 8:00PM. Think I'll do it again tonight solo, minus the fishing. Good night when you limit and come home with more bait than you started with.

[popeye]

you only took pictures of the junk were are the bugs????

[madscientist]

Here they are.

[Fishing Addict]

Good eats!

[aclemieux]

What's in the second picture? A root? Driftwood?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by aclemieux

What's in the second picture? A root? Driftwood?

Looks like a Moray. He likes catching those. Does it all the time!

[shitbird]

are spider crab good eating

[aclemieux]

Thanks, Cory. That makes sense. I'm just looking at it and all I can figure is that it is like something that was causing me BA (baboon ass) this morning!

[neversink2]

Originally Posted by shitbird

are spider crab good eating

no, they suck. Thick bones and not much meat. Heads are usually full of green shit and moss too. yuk!!

[cksea]

Originally Posted by shitbird

are spider crab good eating

The big males are great. we caught some free diving that were 9" across on the body and about a 24" span. Tasted awesome the legs were like 3/4 sch 40 pvc full of meat.