Does iodine work for crabs?

boscoj · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject: Does iodine work for crabs?

Does iodine work for crabs? I can't remember which pot I soaked my squid in iodine . . .

B~C · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:06 pm Post subject:

it works good for cuts....don't know about crabs........sorry I just had to

G Gallagher · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:11 pm Post subject:

Have no idea if that works... But, I do know that raw chicken drumsticks from Safeway are irresitable to Dungeness crabs. I do assume that you refer to the crustation, not the physical condition, right?

boscoj · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:12 pm Post subject:

also works good for staining the side of your C-Dory orange .......sorry I just had to

boscoj · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject:

G Gallagher · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:47 pm Post subject:

Went out last Sunday searching for crabs ,So of the Clinton ferry dock. It was awesome!!! After 2 1/2 hour soak 1st pot had about 20 dungies about half keepers. Next pot about the same We had 15 over 7 inches and about 10 at 6 1/4 or better.

Since limit is 5 per person we returned many to the sea. What an experience to have so many choices.

boscoj · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:00 am Post subject: whoa WA only lets you keep 5?

whoa WA only lets you keep 5?

what pots and bait do you use?

and give me the coordinates for your spot

JGrider · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:11 am Post subject:

Ok. I must be lost here. What is the iodine supposed to do if it did work? Our blue crabs in Louisiana are not as big as the ones you are catching but we also don't have any limits here.

starcrafttom · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:22 am Post subject:

yeah what the hell is the iodine for?? what do you do with it and squids?

boscoj · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:37 am Post subject:

well iodine is my grand dad's secret . . . for fish

I felt it was time to share . . .

apparently it was great for marinating baitfish, makes them smell more like they are actually pissing/pooping in the water.

Dunno if it works for crab bait. 1 pound blocks of Monterey squid, drizzled with iodine . . .

Dunno if that's a viable eat me chain

G Gallagher · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:47 am Post subject:

Boscoj-

Yes limit in Wa is 5 per day,min 6 1/4 across, hard shell.

cordinates? It's a long haul from S.F, but what the heck.

Go a half mile north of Possession Point Angry

Look for a white house and try there

But I think we took them all!!

starcrafttom · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:10 pm Post subject:

I don't need to know spots but I would like to know deep. I believe that the crab at at different depths during the year. so how deep where you in the sound.

G Gallagher · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:36 pm Post subject:

OK,

How deep--- I was between 50-70 feet. I use a leaded line 100 feet long so that gives me plenty to account for tide change and also if I happen to hit an underwter valley.

markshoreline · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:10 am Post subject: crabs

Yes, it was an excellent year for crabs, we pulled one pot that held 34 crabs, though they weren't all keepers, of course. But lots of 7 inchers!

I'm not sure I'd want to consume a crab that had been snacking on iodine. Isn't that stuff bad for you???

Mark