Not Quite the Deadliest Catch
1942 miles southeast of Dutch Harbor, the S.S. Leaks-A-Lot with Captain Lyle gets underway to drop a prospect string on the northwestern banks of the Illahee fishing grounds.
The Puget Sound crabbing season opens every year on the first Wednesday of July. The Leaks-A-Lot crew, consisting of Annette, Alan, The Princess and her significant other (Captain Lyle), went on a four day camping and crabbing expedition to fill their quota of red rock crabs.
Among the baits are used for crabs are raw chicken, greasy fried chicken (crabs like Albertson’s the best), bacon, fish bodies and rolley-polley fish heads. Presently, for the 2008 season, catfish bodies appear to be the crabs' favorite.
Here we see deck hand Annette baiting the first pot with a filleted steelhead body.
After baiting, each pot is manually launched into the depths.
After launching the full string of pots, the crew gets a break while the pots soak for ten to fifteen minutes. Here we see greenhorn Alan sitting on his butt waiting for the go ahead to begin pulling pots.
The first pulling of the pots resulted in three legal sized crabs. The pots were reset and pulled several times. Unfortunately, the numbers were coming in low. Captain Lyle moved the Leaks-A-Lot forty yards northwest to drop a prospect string near an outer breakwater. The pots came up with large numbers and soon the entire string of pots and the crew were relocated.
The allotted quota for the Leaks-A-Lot was 66 crabs. The crew fell slightly short with final catch count of 57 crabs, but still an impressive haul.
posted by Alan @ 7/06/2008 02:50:00 PM
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11 Comments:
now that is my kind of fun... I bet they taste fantastic
Hope all that waiting didn't make you crabby!
The caption says off your duff and pull the pots get to work green horns or you do not get a full sharee
Wow! You guys look like real professionals!
Hey...Deadliest Catch... I love that show. I can definately see you guys on one of those boats. the Time Bandit maybe?!
The Princess fleeted appeals to a wider impede piece of cruisers by donation tons of choices and activities, desirable touches of big ship glamour, along with enough of the reserved balconies, peace nooks, and calm chairs that characterize minor, more intimate extent vessels.
Princess Cruise Alaska and Holland America in a big bowl and mix them all together.
http://www.princess-cruise-alaska.blogspot.com
Madwag - They are very tasty.
Connie - The Princess may disagree, but I'm seldom crabby.
Anonymous - Thanks for stopping by. I always get a full share.
Iz - Thanks! Is The Deadliest Catch televised in your part of the world?
Malika - Andy and Jonathan look like a fun group to hang out with.
Hey Marco Bozo - What's with the Spam? You may want to try a grammer checker next time.
very good haul. looks great!
That was quite a bit different from Deadliest Catch. Your trip actually sounded enjoyable.
Hi Illahee, Thanks for stopping by all the way from Japan. Interesting blog handle, are you originally from the Puget Sound area?
Hi Melissa, Definitely warmer than the Bering Sea. It still takes a lot of work pulling pots all day long, but it's worth it. We're off to try a different fishing ground this weekend.
hi.
well yes, i lived in silverdale for fifteen years before i came to japan. i have a cat i found in illahee state park, which i named illahee, and that's where my blog name came from. kind of. anyway, i hope to be a regular reader here. :)
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