Crab Max© and Crabbing with Kids
Where can you spend $50 and have an activity for kids for 24 hours?
Crabbing is a fun and easy activity for the entire family. It’s a great way to get outside and catch some dinner while burning some energy, enjoying the fresh air, and taking in the scenery of the glorious coast.
Crabbing requires patience and persistence and meditatively affects kids and adults alike.
. There is nothing like taking a bucket of crab back to your unit or, better yet, having it cleaned, cooked, and ready to be dipped in warm butter and a squeeze of fresh lemon!
Benefits of crabbing
Crabbing is great for our mental health, like fishing, because you spend time outside, surrounded by nature, water, and sand. Exposing our kids to outdoor activities that reduce stress and anxiety.
Treasure these moments from all the noise and crabbing together, a great way to relax as a family. It’s also a great way for kids to know, respect, and appreciate where their food comes from. It connects them to our planet and makes them want to protect it for themselves and the animals that share it with us.
In Oregon, the most abundant crab is the Dungeness crab. Crabbing is popular along the Bays and up and down the Coast. While it may sound simple enough to go out and catch dinner, it’s important to understand local laws and regulations, as they can change yearly.
Crab 365 days a year
Here are some basic supplies that you’ll need to get started crabbing, but all but the gloves and ice chest can be rented
- gloves
- ice chest
- crab traps
- bait
- bait holder
- crab measuring device
- crabbing license
You can catch a lot more crabs when you use a crab trap. Crabs are lured into a trap with bait. We use the Round Crab Max.
How to handle crab
Don’t get pinched! Safety always comes first when handling crab—both your safety and the safety of the crab. Crab handling is important; caution can spare you from a painful pinch. Once you have a good grip on the center of the crab, you can pick it up without getting pinched. Hold it firmly but not so hard that it damages the shell. Wearing gloves is the safest option.
Benefits of crabbing
Opportunities for play for the kids are endless near the beach. Not everyone has to participate in the crabbing; there are always plenty of other things to do, such as digging sand holes, running through sand dunes, and simply enjoying our time together as a family. It is a great activity that will leave your family with countless memories for years to come.
But where can you have a vacation with your children and spend the entire day on the beach, have fun catching Crabs for under $50, and then eat the Crabs for Dinner?
Benefits:
- Total family participation … all age groups ,,, Fun for everybody
- Safe for young children
- Perfect for children who get seasick or afraid of water
- Children cannot fall out of the boat or off the dock
- Weather too bad for boating or no boats available
- Children can make as much noise as they want
- Children can run and play as much as they want
- Free Bath Room readily available
- Homemade Clam Chowder is only steps away
- less than 1/2 the expense of crabbing from a boat … CLICK HERE
- Less than the price of one (1) Crab dinner….. CLICK HERE
Cost Benefits
- less than 1/2 the expense of crabbing from a boat … CLICK HERE
- Less than the price of one (1) Crab dinner….. CLICK HERE
What is our secret?
Two things
- Narrow Channel to Siletz Bay
- Round Crab Max© Trap
Siletz Bay is a large Bay one (1) mile south of Lincoln City in Taft.
All the Crab entering the Bay must go through a narrow channel.
This is the Crab Trap we use. Since it is string-loaded, it lays flat like a circle-ring trap, but when it is pulled, it closes like a crab shell.
The picture on the left is after it pulled with Crab.
Children as young as eight (8) standing on the beach, armed with our specially built Crab Trapper, can throw the trap into the narrow channel.
They throw like they are lassoing something.
They will catch some Crab every 5 – 8 minutes.
Rent
Rent Three Trap Option Set of (3) Crab Traps, a bucket, and a crab gauge @$50/set. Crab Traps can be picked up at 8 AM – Dark with reservations.
Rent One Trap Option Set of (1) Crab Traps, a bucket, and a crab gauge @$40/set Crab Traps can be picked up 8 AM – Dark with reservations.
Purchase
PURCHASE Three Trap Option Three (3) Crab Trappers, a bucket, and crab gauge @$150/set.
PURCHASE Three Trap Option One (1) Crab Trapper, a bucket, and a crab gauge @$150. The office sales & reservation staff is only available to ask questions and sales from 8 am – 9 PM… 541-765-2109
license
Crab License … must-have. Available at our Siletz River Location. Instate @$10/year…. Out of State @$20/3 days.
Bait
Crab Bait is not provided. We recommend you buy raw dark-meat chicken for bait. Seals do not like chicken, but crabs do.
Cleaning & Cooking
We provide the kitchen equipment to cook Crab and show you how to clean & cook the Crab and we will clean & cook for you. …. ready to eat…. $2.50/Crab
Crabbing Information …. 8 am – 10 pm 541-765-2109
New to Crabbing? …. Free Crab Clinic … CLICK HERE
Private Crab Clinic … CLICK HERE … Available by Appointment 7 days a week & Crab Cooking.
In the private Clinic, the Crab Master will show you his favorite Crab location, which does not require a dock, pier, or dock. He will spend 60 minutes showing you how to catch crab, catch crab, explain the Oregon crab laws, and explain everything about crabbing for $25. No limit on the number in the group.
Call 541-765-2109 for an appointment. Your rental or purchase traps from the master are the same as the Guide.
Free Kids Crab Clinic
During the off-Crab Season, we offer a free Crab Clinic to kids under 12. We furnish everything: training, license, Crab traps, and bait. Below are some of the results.
We teach families with children how to catch, clean, and cook Crabs so they always have food. Last year, we helped 41 families with children between 8 and 11 learn to catch crabs from the beach and prepare them for dinner.
We furnished a Free Crab Trapper Set – one (1) Kid’s Crab Trapper Trap, Bucket, Crab Gauge, location, and instructions – for three hours to Crab from Siletz Bay.
When the kids caught the crab, they were shown how to clean and cook it so they could have it for their family dinner.
How to bait your trap
How do you know if you have Crab in your trap
How to identify sex and legal size
Adequate release of undersized and female Crab
Best time to crab
What to bring when you are beach crabbing
- Gloves … Crab pinch
- Dress in Layers … If there is no wind, it can get warm
- Hat
- Sunscreen
- Sunglasses
- Boots? …. you will not have to get into the water, but you may want to
Information Office Hours …. noon – 9 pm …. Everyday … 541-765-2109
Cooking hours – 8am – Dark (by Reservation Only)
- Cooking Location 82 Siletz Highway
- Lincoln City, OR 97267
- 541-765-2109
- info@siletzrentals.com
82 Siletz Hwy Lincoln City OR 97367
OregonCoast has incredible museums, aquariums, zoos, glass factories, and ghost towns to be explored.
. CLICK HERE to get a list of these types of Trips.
Oregon has one thing that most other states do not have …. an Ocean full of Crab.
Newport, Oregon, is called the Dungeness Crab Capital
Available Now ….Kayak Touring Siletz Bay Wildlife Refuge … CLICK HERE …….
Available Now ….. Crabbing …. CLICK HERE ……
Self Guided and Paid Guides For Wildlife seen in Siletz Wildlife Bay Refuge … CLICK HERE ….
Daily Report of Crab caught in the Newport, Depoe, and Siletz Bays … CLICK HERE
Everything you wanted to know about Crabbing, and you were afraid to ask … CLICK HERE
Beach Crabbing …. CLICK HERE
Boat Crabbing Availabilitynot Available until July 4,2021 … CLICK HERE
Fishing Boats …. CLICK HERE
Crabbing Options Kayak, Boat, or Crab-Cat … CLICK HERE
Crabbing at Lincoln City without a Boat —- CLICK HERE
Crabbing at Depoe Bay without a Boat —- CLICK HERE
Crabbing at Newport without a Boat —- CLICK HERE
Type of Crab Traps for Rent …. CLICK HERE
Free Use of Crab Trap for child age 8 – 11 .… CLICK HERE
Type of Crab Traps for Sale … CLICK HERE
Hands-on Free Crab Clinics Demonstrations? … CLICK HERE
Learn How to Clean and Cook Crab … CLICK HERE
FISHING ACTIVITIES
Six (6) Mile Fishing Siletz River Drift .. CLIICK HERE
Salmon Fishing not Available … CLICK HERE
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Blowing Glass … CLICK HERE
Whale Watching … CLICK HERE
Aerial Park … CLICK HERE
Kite Flying … CLICK HERE
Pizza Delivery in Depoe Bay …. CLICK HERE
Local Farmer’s Markets
Newport … Saturday …. CLICK HERE
Lincoln City … Sunday…. CLICK HERE
Toledo …. Thursday … CLICK HERE
Gleneden Beach …. To be announced
Siletz …. To be announced
Information Office Hours …. noon – 9 pm …. Everyday … 541-765-2109
Cooking hours – 8am – Dark (by Reservation Only)
- Cooking Location 82 Siletz Highway
- Lincoln City, OR 97267
- 541-765-2109
- info@siletzrentals.com
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