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My first crabbing trip on the kayak! What a blast with @keeponfishing9189 a successful short trip.
0:01 Intro
1:21 On the water
2:13 Dropping crab trap
3:47 Kayaking Departure Bay & fishing
4:49 Picking up crab traps
7:59 Back at shore measuring crab
9:18 Exiting shore
10:45 Cleaning crab
11:15 Crab poached egg bagel
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Well, welcome back to the channel everyone, it's Jesse here from BC Fishing Journal
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Today it is early December and Merry Christmas. Well, high tide and I'm thinking about crabbing
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So I've never done this before on the kayak. I have never taken a crab trap out
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I have some massive crab traps, commercial ones, that are used more commercially
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So these aren't ideal for my kayak. So I'm just going to bring one
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If this goes well, I'm going to get a smaller collapsible trap for my kayak, maybe a couple
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of them. But this one is a big, big crab trap. I'm just going to try it, see how we do
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I just want to get out. I'm here in Departure Bay in Nanaimo
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So I'm going with a buddy, Mike. He's been doing this already a couple of times and done well
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First time doing this. All right, here we go. All right, that's the weight
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I forgot my little connector for my pan fish adapter. So I'll have to hold the camera so it's not going to be the greatest perspective
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All right, we're on the water. I'm not going to lie to you
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Getting out here with my spoons, usually I'm standing in the water, a lot easier
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Not standing in the water trying to push off in these type of waves, not easy
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But we're on the water now, so it's all fine. So I'm hooking the trap onto my trailer
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So it's kind of stuck on there. It's a good way to kind of hold it still, I think
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Makes sense, eh? But again, this is just the big one. I'm only going to do one trap just to try this out
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But we got Mike out here. He's dropping his first trap. So this looks like a good spot
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All right. Oh. Oh. Wow
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All right. Oh, damn it. All right, that wasn't ideal either
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I'm not going to lie to you. This thing is too heavy for this
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This is crazy heavy. All right, so I'm going to start dropping this down real slow
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All right. Nice and slow. Come on, lion, I just untangled you
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All right, the inaugural drop here, people. All these knots are in for me. Jeez
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All right. Let's just let it go down. Let's see how far it goes down
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Still dropping. Should be about 100 feet of line, so. There she is
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All right. 65 feet. 65 feet, I got 100 feet of line
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I don't know. Should I have more than 35 feet of line extra
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I'll let you know how it goes. Mike's already fishing over there
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I'm going to do some bottom fishing, too, just to try it out
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This whole area. Maybe there's a good one
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There he goes. Wintertime fish, a little bottom rigging. He took a swipe at it
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There you go, let him go. That's a good sign, so we're getting some fish over here
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So we're just on the edge of the boundary here. And let's see if we can get a big greenling to take home
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Apart your bay. All right, we've been soaking. We're only letting him soak for about, I don't know, an hour or two hours, an hour and a half
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So we're not going to be getting any fish. We're not going long because I've got to go back to pick up the kids
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But we'll see. Maybe we'll just get one. I will be so excited if we just get one
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We've got some good water therapy, as Mike says. So this is great being on the water again in December
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Unreal. Gotta love the West Coast. He's pulling his first trap. Let's see what he's got
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And it's the ramp right there. Heavier than when you put it down
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Oh yeah. That's good. Oh, let's have a look here. Is there some size in there or what
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Oh, dude, there looks like some nice sizes in there. Holy smokes, dude
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Oh, I've got to use what you're using. Oh my goodness. Oh yeah
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Oh yeah. Dude. That's a huge red rock, dude. That's a for sure keeper red
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That red one's for sure. That's a massive red. I've actually never seen a red that big
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That's big. That is a very big red rock. Alright, I'm going to get mine
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I'm going to get mine. Here we go. Alright, we've got BC Ferries taking off
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And we've got our first crab caught. And we've got our first crab caught
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Alright, we've got our first crab caught. And we've got our first crab caught. Ever
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From a kayak. Alright, here we go. First pot. I'm going to throw it on this side
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I'm going to try and pull it up this way. Oh, it feels heavy already
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Oh my goodness. Does it feel heavier than it was when I first brought it
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I think so. That's a good sign, right? Man, my hands are cold
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I'm going to have gloves for this. Next time I'll get some
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Oh, what do we got? We got two, three. We got two, three
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Oh, one keeper for sure. Oh, there's some big crabs in here
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Oh, there's some big crabs in here. There's one, two, three. So maybe there might be two keepers
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So maybe there might be two keepers. There we go. That could be a keeper
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There we go. That guy probably is a closer keeper there. I'm going to measure these guys outside the..
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Oh yeah, that's big. That guy right here is a big one
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Actually, that works pretty good. I put the trap..
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I hooked it right through here. And so this is going to stay still
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That's going to stay on there, which is great. That's the way to do it
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You got to use a little bit of muscle to get it over there with one hand though
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It's a little bit sketchy. I'm not going to lie to you
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But yeah, we got some decent ones there. There's one I think for sure
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Alright, well I'm happy with that. So that's a good first outing
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Honestly, like I said, I don't care if I got any crab. This is just my first time
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Lots of lessons learned already on how I want to launch, things I want to wear, gloves in particular
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Expect a little bit more of this coming your way. Alright, we're going to head back in
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We're not far. Alright, we didn't want to... We're kind of having some issues out there
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We don't want to flush some of the Halitsus guys. Too small
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This guy is definitely too small. Alright. Let's see if he's made it
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Almost there. Just barely, barely too small. Oh, this guy is more than enough
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He's good. We got one. There. And he's fast. Oh yeah, he's six and three quarters
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actually. He's good. See there's a... Look at that, it's just passing
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Six and three quarters, that's a good one. Woohoo! Alright, we got one
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That's all I wanted. At least one. I'm happy. Alright, we got some extras from Mikey here
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Here we go, there's a few more. Look at the size of this Red Rock here
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Look at the size of that Red Rock. These are all Eagle Dungeness
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That's a pretty big Red Rock I would say. That was fun
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Well, some good lessons learned. A lot of fun. Woohoo! Good crab
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Okay. She's on there. That was a great time with Mike. Man, so he
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topped me up with some crabs. So we got four crab here. So lots to feed the family with
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And yeah, we only soaked for about an hour and a half
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So I got one keeper. But I think, you know, if I would have had it in there for a couple more hours
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I think I easily would have had my limit. But this was just a quick trip
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Alright, we're back at home. We're gonna unload all the stuff. Hose it down with fresh water
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And let's get cooking that crab. Alright, let's give that a try
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It's been a little while since I've done this. I like to grab right here
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Find a corner like this. Pull that off. Muscles. That. That
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Dead. There we go. Clean crab. Lots of meat there. Well, good morning everyone
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It is Jesse here. We're back in the kitchen, back at home
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It's morning time. As you can see I'm in my nice little cozies here
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And yeah, so this morning, last night I didn't make the crab
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So I thought I'm gonna wait for this morning. So my buddy Mike said I should try it over poached eggs
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So I'm gonna do it on a bagel. Some poached eggs, some avocado, some tomatoes
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And I've got a So I've just got the bagels here. And then I've just had the crab
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They've been steaming for about 10 minutes. So there you go. There's the little steaming water down there
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Alright, let's try this out here. So we got We got our poached egg, which I'm about to crush
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Got our little tomatoes. Nice little colour. And now the main event
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Just gonna strip this apart. Some of these pieces. Okay, look at that thing. Woohoo
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Ah yes. Crab over tomato, avocado, poached egg
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a bagel toasted in oil. Bagel toasted, everything bagel. I don't know if that's the right choice actually
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That's just what I had. With a little compound garlic butter. Alright, let's try this out
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I'm gonna cut the egg. Gonna get a little yolk spillage. Alright
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But I'll find it'll be everything bagel, it's not the right choice
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Mmm. But the egg and crab combo, great choice. I don't need the tomato
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Not the tomato guy, but the avocado. Perfect. So I would do it
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just like that. Mmm. Mmmhmm. Thanks for joining me for breakfast this morning
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and for this video, this crabbing video on the kayak. I guarantee you there will be more of this
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More crab kayaking. Man that was fun. I had no idea what I was doing
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I shouldn't say I had no idea, but that was my first time and what a food it was. It was a blast
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So looking forward to getting out there a lot more. If you have any questions, by all means
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like I always say, drop them down below. I'll do my best to answer them
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or get answers for you guys. So as you know, obviously I'm pretty new to the
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I shouldn't say I'm new to crabbing. But from the kayak, I am new
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But now I've got some ideas on how I want to kind of change my stuff already
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So that should be fun and you'll get to see that. I'll let you know. I'll keep you up to date
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on what I'm doing on the kayak and prepping it for this type of
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fishing trip. Alright guys, thanks again for watching. Appreciate you. And we'll see you in the next one
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