If under 12 years of age… Crab Trap Free Usage … Lincoln City ….. Siletz Bay ….Taft Dock …… Historic Taft … Depoe Bay … Newport

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June 1, 2020 …. General Coronavirus Prevention Rules

1. Due to the Virus reservations required for all rental services.  Services are scheduled only one group at a time
2. Hand Sanitizer is available.
3. No bathroom facilities available at the Siletz Moorage Rental Location
4. All rentals business will be completed outdoors

RENT or PURCHASE Crab Traps to be used from docks, piers, boats, or shore … Available now!!!! See the following video on how to use the Crab Trapper from the shore..

Crab Traps Available for pick-up at the Siletz River Location South of Lincoln City

Rent Three Trap Option Set of (3) Crab Traps, a bucket, and a crab gauge @$50/set.  With Club Discount $40/set. Can make reservations online.  Reservations are No Deposit or Obligation Online at CLICK HERE  Crab Traps can be pick-up 8 AM – Dark with reservations.

Rent One Trap Option Set of  (1) Crab Traps, a bucket, and a crab gauge @$30/set  With Club Discount $20/set. Can make reservations online.  Reservations are No Deposit or Obligation Online at CLICK HERE  Crab Traps can be pick-up 8 AM – Dark with reservations.

PURCHASE Three Trap Option  CLICK HERE Three (3) Crab Trappers, a bucket, and crab gauge @$125/set. With Club Discount $100

PURCHASE Three Trap Option  CLICK HERE One (1) Crab Trapper, a bucket, and a crab gauge @$50. With Club Discount $40.  The office sales & reservation staff is only available to ask questions and sales from noon – 9 PM… 541-765-2109

Crab License … must-have.  Available at our Siletz River Location. Instate @$10/year….  Out of State @$19/3 days.

Crab Bait not provided … we recommend you buy raw dark meat chicken for bait, seals do not like chicken, but crab do.

 

Idea for Children ….. Call 541-765-2109 …. hours noon – 9PM for details

• Use of one (1) Crab Trapper, Bait, Crab Bucket, and Crab Gauge for 24 hours at no charge – Only restrictions – One per family with other rental or purchase. Call 541-765-2109 for more details
• Child must be over 8 and under 12.
• Must be accomplished by adult and Credit card info required – to be used if Crab Trap not returned
• Five Free Location to Crab from
• Will need Gloves to handle Crab -. Rubber Boots good idea.

 One (1) Crab License is required for every 3 traps if you are 12 or older

Oregon Crab License = $10 ……………….. Out of State 3 day Crab License = $19

The Crab Trapper is made locally in Lincoln City, Oregon and can be purchased for $50,

Folding crab traps are a recent innovation that is changing the face of crabbing from the bank or the shore in Siletz Bay.

According to the experts, one needs to understand how Crab finds food and appeal to their sense of smell.   Experts believe that crabs have an excellent sense of smell – this is somewhat true, but not in this sense, you might think.

Crabs don’t smell through any organ-like a nose but instead use microscopic “smelling” organisms.  Therefore, anything that has a strong smell can attract a whole host of these creatures. They will go after anything that comes into their path.  Furthermore, crabs will use their claws to dig or scratch up food from the seafloor’s bottom.  

Crabs rely on their sense of smell to find food. Crabs have chemoreceptors that allow them to detect chemicals in the water that are released by their prey. These chemoreceptors are on a crab’s antennae. These are long, segmented appendages near the Crab’s eyes that have both chemoreceptors and allow them to feel their surroundings.

Crabs also have antennules, shorter antenna-like appendages near the antennas that allow them to sense their environment. A crab can “taste” using hairs on its mouthparts, pincers, and even its feet.  Long story short? The stinker and smeller the bait, the better.

Foods that are natural to crabs seem to do better, such as fish carcasses, squid, clams, and the like. Natural baits also have a downside in that seals seem to love them as much as the Crab and Seals tear-up Crab Traps.

With a Smell Bait Bag with chicken, Crab can eat from the bag, but they have to pinch through the mesh to get to the chicken. Along with Smell Bait Bag’s side is a chicken spike with raw chicken and no bait bag protecting it.

We inject chicken with Pro-Cure Crab Attractant Bait Oil before it is placed in the Smell Bait Bag. The smell of the Pro-Cure attracts Crab but eat the chicken from the chicken spike. The scent will last longer and keep attracting Crab long after the chicken on the spike was consumed.

The Crab will eat two (2) raw dark meat (drumsticks or thighs) from the Chicken Spike per hour per trap

The users of Pro-Cure say this

“Gain a 40% increase in catching crabs. I have tried other stuff, and this the strongest smelly scent that lasts longer. A half a gallon will last year a whole season for Dungeness crabbing. You do not need much to mix with your bait. Pair Pro-Cure with chicken. It is a Dungeness slayer.”

” Catching Crab has a lot of factors, and if you want to maximize your chances, you should probably use this.”

“Please don’t tell the guys crabbing on the pier I go to about this product.”

If a crab pulls off a nice piece of your bait, more than likely it’ll crawl off and eat it. So something to stop them from tearing off chunks will improve your odds when using the Super Max Crab Trap.

The bait bag is the key. For starters, this eliminates tying bait to the bottom of the trap, which never seemed to work very well anyway. This is especially nice if you are dealing with some rancid bait like fish parts. Just toss them in and clip it shut.

Bait bags prevent the crabs from completely devouring the bait all at once. They are open enough to allow for little bites here and there to keep the crabs happy but closed enough to keep your bait working all day long. It is more effective to stand the bait bags upright, as this maximizes floor space.

Gloves
Gloves prevent jellyfish stings from tentacles wrapped around your rope, along with alleviating some of the pain that comes with handling crabs.

Boots Since you on the shore of the Siletz Bay, it is easy to step into the water. Rubber Boots are nice to have.

 Sorting Crabs
Quickly sort through the crabs, being careful to not break crab legs or get your fingers pinched. An experienced crab handler will sort crabs by keeping them at ease. They want to get out, but they don’t want to be forcefully grabbed. A quick shake of the pot is often more effective than reaching directly for them.

Be sure to carefully and quickly release crab, do not throw them from heights as this will often crack their carapace and kill them.

REGULATIONS

Crabs may be taken using crab rings, pots or baited line (limited to 3 rings, pots or lines per licenses) by hand; dip net; or rake. Pots may be left overnight.
Bays, estuaries, beaches, tide pools, piers, and jetties are open all year. The ocean is closed for Dungeness crab October 16 through Dec 15, 2020
No more than 1 daily catch limit per day may be taken per person. No more than 2 daily catch limits per person may be in possession.
The minimum size for Dungeness crab is 5 ¾ inches. Size is measured in a straight line across the back immediately in front of, but NOT including the widest points.

Undersized male, female and unwanted red rock crab must be immediately released unharmed.
Crabs may not be mutilated so that sex, size, or species cannot be determined prior to landing. Mutilated crabs may not be transported across state waters.
No holding pots, holding devices, or live boxes are allowed in the ocean. Holding pots, holding devices or live boxes in bays and estuaries cannot retain more than 24 Dungeness and 48 red rock crab per container.

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Crab & Fishing Package … Click Here
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Free Online Crab Clinic … Click Here

For more information
Depoe Bay, 97341
541-765-2109
info@siletzrentals.com