July 2019 Hood Canal Crab Opener
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Feb 5, 2025
Crabbing the opener on Hood Canal near Seabeck! Make crabbing fun for the entire family and still have success.
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we're out here while I'm out here head
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canal just getting started here with the
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crab opener and I decided to launch a
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launch super early but crack of dawn get
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out here and then I love my family join
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me later
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one Saigon I got an idea where the crab
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might be at already seen some crazy
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things on the launch this morning seen a
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couple of guys basically dry launched a
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boat off of their trailer that was
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interesting it was like right in front
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of me is it go good I got up at 3 a.m.
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for this but I blend his shoulder in
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there and and help them you know dry
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launch that thing
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not sure why I couldn't back it up just
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a little bit further so you know in the
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water you know 10 it's typically what
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you do with boats is you put them in the
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water but you know I mean I'm not
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judging I'm not gonna judge I'm out here
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and I got two pots down one with super
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secret razor clam bait another with with
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some salmon carcass and it's kind of
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anxiously waiting for when it's time to
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pull them up and see what's in there
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before I drop the up to the big Heavy's
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on them and really put the whooping on
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some done jeez
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pulling up our first pot and see if it's
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a pot of gold or pot cool okay Christine
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the red Russian okay
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rocks
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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here we have our first should be keeper
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Dungey of the day check this guy out
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oh I'm a measurement from here and look
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at that not even close
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big big dude right there
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all right hey I'm gonna get it
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let's go greenhorn
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let's get that get that crab buoy
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[Music]
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you're gonna pull the rope up you got it
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all right good job Hannah just water
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Hannah
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[Music]
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but in red rock over here
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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the real food of all crabbers
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[Music]
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my way
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[Music]
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[Music]
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hey where you going
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[Music]
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lock my chicken
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[Music]
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[Music]
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oh yeah got a crowd a big one too
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[Music]
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Oh in the ring well I say I mean oh yeah
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that look at that
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you guys don't care over in the bail
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through the purple on that big ol purple
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back
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[Music]
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away
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[Music]
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oh yeah the six six and three-quarters
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[Music]
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yeah good job way to do it on the line
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[Music]
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[Music]
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oh you thought that
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kids
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as you can see we had way too much fun
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partying out there on Hood Canal for the
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crab opener with our crab orchids and
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our box of cheez-its wireless speaker
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bluetooth
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waterproof speaker helped us kind of
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rock out to some tunes as well all the
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link on the blog post with this
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associated with this YouTube video where
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you can you can you can buy the speaker
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local said it was it's kind of a slow
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opener we had you know about five done
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jeez and maybe 10 Red Rock which was
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plenty of crab but not nearly the
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success rate to think some other areas
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like a 22 we're getting but we had a
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blast being out there and it's all about
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how you it's all about how you have the
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experience not just the results and the
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what you get but we had plenty of crowd
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lasted several meals and this is my
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favorite thing to do with with crabs
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throw in some Hood Canal shrimp and some
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corn some andouille sausage and lots of
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Old Bay seasoning you end up with just
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an absolute crab pot feast just an
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awesome awesome meal have some great
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craft beer maybe an IPA or two with that
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thing it's a great time till next time
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stiffing worth West's best life give us
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a like let us know what you think take
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it easy
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