Six legal sized Dungeness crabs a New Catch Record for the Crab Max folding crab trap. Our congradulations to Pat Becker the crabber who took the six ocean beauties on September 10 from the crabbing dock at Tillamook Bay.
Folding crab traps are a recent innovation that is changing the face of crabbing from crab docks and the sandy shore. The Crab Max Crab Trap is made in Lincoln City by handicap man, Bill Paterek and his blind buddy Merl. The Crab Max was named in honor of Bill's dog, Max. Bill lives at 4800 #3 Inlet SE. He can be reached by calling 541 996 2427.
Crab Max crab traps are also available through our Websites or at various retail outlets along the Oregon coast or at various retail outlets along the Oregon coast from Coos Bay to Gearhart, however, the traps can be purchased from my home at 136 SW Brook St. Newport. 541 265 5847. Neither Bill Paterek or Bill Lackner sell crab bait.
Crab Max Crab traps are sold at both Kenny's IGA stores in Lincoln City at 4845 SW HWY 101 at 541 996 2301 or 2421 NW HwY 101 at 541 994 3101 but Crab Max products are not available at either BiMart or Ace Hardware in Lincoln City but are sold at Ace Hardware Outdoors in the Safeway shopping center in Newport and at the Premier R/V Resort 4100 SE Hwy 101 at 541 996 2778. Knight's Tackle Box 6316 Hwy 18 Rose Lodge at 541 994 8137. Eleanor's 861 SW 51 st. Taft. 541 996 3800. Dock of the Bay Marina Waldport bay front at 541 563 2003. Shrimp Daddy’s Bait and Tackle (541) 563-9682 at 385 NE Spencer St. in Waldport sells sand shrimp and cooks crab. Bud's Campground. 4412 Hwy 101 Garhart at 503 738 6855. Netarts Bay Garden R/V Resort. 2260 Bilyeu Ave W. at 503 842 7774.
Folding Crab traps are illegal to use in California.
Once the decision is made to purchase a Crab Max Crab Trap, Do not cut or untie any of the lines on the crab trap or alter the bend in the trap's frame.
The Crab Max Trap is easily the finest folding crab trap on the market today. Made from high quality stainless steel and materials the Crab Max crab trap is easily used with a hand line or fishing pole as shown below to take crabs from the sub tidal areas of Oregon's Bays.
The use of Hand Lines to take crabs is an exclusive crabbing method developed by Crab Max. The use of hand lines and the quality of materials are the difference between our folding crab trap and other folding crab traps. You will be using our folding crab traps long after you have thrown the others away. The use of Crab Max folding crab traps with hand lines is the most effective method of taking crabs from the sandy shore or from the crab dock.
Click HERE to see the price list or to purchase CRAB MAX crab traps.
The cost of the Crab Max folding crab traps at retail outlets average $40.00 ea. Our price is $35.00 per crab trap complete with a hand line, or order the Crab Max Starter Kit.
Take advantage of the Crab Max Starter Kit for 49.00 and save $14.50 per order. The Crab Max Starter Kit consist of the Crab Max crab trap with hand line, a copy of Oregon's Crabs a $22.00 value is sold for $8.00 in addition to the free crab gage and a wooden crab mallet.
Order the basic Starter Kit for 49.00 to take advantage of the opportunity to catch more crabs at a time using 3 Crab Max Crab Traps. In Oregon you can legally crab with 3 devices. Increase the number of crabs taken by crabbing with 3 Crab Max crab traps: I do.
Purchase the basic Starter Kit plus 1 additional Crab Max crab trap for $84.00 or 2 additional Crab Max crab traps for $119.00. The shipping and handling charge is based on the state you live in as follows: Oregon and Washington $8.75, Idaho $9.75, Arizona and Nevada $10.75, Alaska and Hawaii $25.00 and all other states $19.50. Click on the Crab Max Starter Kit to place you order.
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Click on the above photograph to view a short video clip of the Dungeness crabs caught in Siletz Bay using Crab Max crab traps.
Click on the sculpture of the Chinook salmon to view a video clip of one lucky fisherman landing a salmon on the north shore of Siletz Bay.
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Crabbing in Yaquina Bay, Bill Lackner displays two of 14 large red rock crabs he caught off the Bay Street Pier using a Crab Max folding crab trap and a surf rod. Bill caught lots of Dungeness crabs but they were either larger females or males that were 1/4 to 1/16 of an inch too short to keep.
It is common to catch up to 3 legal sized crabs at a time when the crabs are in the bays; however, I used only 1 Crab Max with a hand line to take the 3 legal Dungeness crabs shown below from the Coast Guard Pier in Winchester Bay. Three Dungeness crabs were all I needed to make a wonderful Crab Louie for my wife and I while we were camped at nearby Eel Lake.
The CRAB MAX is innovative by design and easy to use. The CRAB MAX comes equipped with approximately 100 feet of 200 pound test Tuna Cord hand line. Compare and consider the difference in the photos below. A 5 gallon bucket, a Crab Max crab trap and bait versus the wheel barrow and all the other stuff.
Truly versatile, the Crab Max is compact and easy to use with our exclusive hand lines
To use the crab max with the hand line uncoil the hand line then reverse coil the hand line back toward the wooden hand line holder. Open the trap by sliding the ball bearing swivel off of the bait pin. Unfold the crab trap. Open the bait clip by sliding the bait pin sleeve of the bait pin. Insert the bait pin through a chicken leg. Fasten the bait pin containing the chicken leg to the trap by sliding the bait pin sleeve over the bait pin. Step on the wooden line holder, grasp the hand line by the T Handle and look behind you to ensure the area is clear. Spin the crab trap several times in an elliptical orbit and throw the crab trap into the water. When crabbing is good wait for 5 minutes before pulling the Crab Max crab trap filled with all sizes of Dungeness Crabs. Well, when crabbing is slow wait longer and read a book, fish, picnic or record your crabbing adventure with your family and friends with photos or on video. Wear gloves or crab at your own risk when deploying or retrieving the Crab Max crab trap to prevent injuring you fingers.
The Crab Max with a hand line is the most cost effective method to take crabs from the Oregon shore. Women and Child friendly, the Crab Max is easier for women and kids to crab than using other method to take crabs. Click on My grandsons to view them crabbing in Yaquina Bay. Brandon now age 21 and Zac now age 17, have really got into crabbing using the Crab Max with hand lines.
Once the decision is made to purchase a Crab Max Crab Trap, Do not cut or untie any of the lines on the crab trap or alter the bend in the trap's frame. Read the instructional pamphlet enclosed in the trap by the manufacturer. Use at your own risk. Be sure to wear gloves when deploying or retrieving the traps. Always use the T Handle when throwing the trap into the water to avoid injuring yourself or others.
Click on the photo to view the video clip of our crabbing adventure to Siletz Bay during the vernal equinox.
The photo above demonstrates the importance of crabbing during the vernal equinox of the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox. Crabbing from the north shore was a planned event to see if we enjoyed the same level of success that we experienced at the vernal equinox of the summer solstice. The Equinoxes is when the sunlight shines equally on both the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. The crabs were taken by my friend, Dustin and me using the Crab Max folding crab traps baited with turkey necks, wings, legs and chicken legs. Ultimately, we retained 22 hard shell barnacle encrusted crabs. We returned 9 plus soft shell legal sized male crabs to the water. Our success of taking limits of Dungeness yesterday, September 23 exceeded our expectations!!!
Crab catch capacity and high quality materials is the measure that separates the Crab Max from other folding crab traps. The 18 inch dimension really pays off when crabbing is hot. It is not unusual to catch 3 or more keeper sized Dungeness crabs per pull. Click HERE to see the information to purchase the CRAB MAX.
Folding crab traps are not legal to use to take crabs in California.
The CRAB MAX folding crab trap shown below in the open position with a hand line is a proven folding crab trap that outperforms conventional crab rings and other folding crab traps. Purchase one Crab Max crab trap with a nearly 100 foot hand line for $35.00 and all you need is a chicken leg to start catching crabs. Click HERE to see the order information to purchase one CRAB MAX crab traps.
Once the decision is made to purchase a Crab Max Crab Trap, Do not cut or untie any of the lines on the crab trap or alter the bend in the trap's frame. Read the instructional pamphlet enclosed in the trap by the manufacturer. Use at your own risk. Be sure to wear gloves when deploying or retrieving the traps. Always use the T Handle when throwing the trap into the water to avoid injuring yourself or others.
Crab Max folding crab traps sell for $35.00 ea. plus the shipping and handling charge based on your zip code. The shipping and handling charge varies from 8.75 for residents of Oregon and Washington and $9.75 for residents of California and Idaho and increasing amounts for residents of other states. The shipping and handling charge applies to the first crab trap ordered only.
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Save the shipping and handling charge by picking up the traps and hand lines at my home at 136 SW Brook ST. Newport, Or 97365, 541-265-5847. Click HERE to see the order information to purchase one CRAB MAX crab traps.
Hand Lines
Hand lines are the most efficient way to use the Crab Max, especially for women and children. Not only are hand lines the most efficient they are the most economical. We recommend to crabbers using fishing poles to cast their Crab Max to order hand lines as backup should the fishing rods fail. The hand lines are also purchased by crabbers who use them on other brands of folding crab traps. The cost of the hand lines is $10.00 per hand line plus $6.80 shipping and handling charge for the 1st hand line shipped. Click HERE to see the information for ordering Hand Lines.
Crab Mallet
The wooden crab mallet is a recent addition to our family of products. My wife and grandsons use our crab mallets whenever we shake and pick large numbers of crabs. Using a crab mallet in conjunction with shaking crab will cut your crab picking time to minutes rather than hours. Recover more crab meat by learning to shake crabs. Click on the link to view the video demonstrating how to shake Dungeness crabs.
The crab mallet is used to humanly kill the crabs by turning the crab over onto it's back and striking the crab at the point of its abdominal flap humanly killing the crab before backing, cleaning and cooking the crabs. Killing and backing the crabs prior to cooking them offers the crabber several advantages: it reduces occurrence of accidents when adding live crabs to a pot of boiling water, eliminates contact with the crab butter and internal organs thereby reducing exposure to marine toxins, exposes the crab meat to the flavor of spices added to the boiling water such as those found in Crab Boil and is a real time saver when cooking large numbers of crabs.
Click HERE to see the product information for our Crab Max crab traps and crab mallet. The cost of each wooden crab mallet is $3.00.
Crab Gage
Our Premium Crab Gage is a new item to our product line for $3.50 plus $3.30 shipping and handling charge. Order a half a dozen crab gages and reduce the cost of the shipping and handling charge. Click HERE to see the product information for our Crab Max crab catchers, crab mallet and crab gage.
Oregon's Crabs New Edition
Learn how to take crabs from Oregon's Coastal Waters. The new edition is inclusive of the crabs of interest to recreational crabbers and stimulates the interest of young crabbers in the complexity and diversity of the crabs common to the Pacific Northwest.
Oregon's Crabs is the complete color guide to taking Dungeness and red rock crabs on the Oregon' Coast. The 116 page book, Oregon's Crabs, describes the cyclical movement of crabs from our bays, identifies the most productive baits and the most innovative and productive methods used to take crabs from Oregon's Coastal waters using crab pots, crab rings, crab snares and the most effective Crab Max folding crab trap.
The Book includes:
- All the information necessary to take Dungeness and red rock crabs from Oregon's Coastal Waters.
- Evaluates the methods used to take Dungeness and red rock crabs.
- Updated maps of Oregon's Bays that disclose the areas of Oregon's Bays where crabs are commonly caught.
- Describes INNOVATIVE METHODS used to humanly clean Dungeness and red rock crabs while minimizing contact with live crabs.
- Describes How to Shake Crabs. Recover a higher percentage of crab meat using the method professional crab shakers use.
- Family recipes that your family will love. Our recipes emphasize using cooking methods that enhance the naturally sweet flavor of crab meat to its full potential. This year's new original recipe for Oregon's Crab Louis is worth the price of the book.
- Personalize your copy of Oregon's Clams with an autograph by the author by entering your name or the name of the person you are giving the book to in the appropriate box on the payment page.
Eighty five year old crabber, Stan wrote, "Thanks for a great book, Bill…..It answers all my questions and much more. I'll be using box traps of my boat in Winchester Bay for a while. Thanks, again, Stan"
Derek from Eugene writes, "Hey William, I wanted to just thank you for the new "crab max" traps that we received. We love them and they work great. Also the book "Oregon Crabs" is filled with helpful information. Thanks again Derek in Eugene"
The revised color edition of the 116 page book, Oregon's Crabs, describes the cyclical movement of crabs from our bays, identifies the most productive baits and the most innovative and productive methods used to take crabs from Oregon's Coastal waters using crab pots, crab rings, crab snares and the most effective Crab Max folding crab trap. The book describes innovative methods to humanly clean and cook crabs. My family looks forward to preparing the recipes in the book each time we go crabbing especially when the catch includes Oregon's native red rock crabs. Click HERE to order information to purchase Oregon's Crabs for $22.00 plus $3.40 shipping and handling charge.
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RELATED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR CRABBERS
Click on the following links for additional information about taking crabs in the Pacific Northwest. Click on ODFW's website crab page or click HERE to view Washington States information on recreational crabbing or click HERE to view California's information on recreational crabbing. Click HERE to view Alaska's comments on Dungeness Crabs. Click HERE to view Dungeness Crabs at Netarts Bay. Click HERE to view a video of cleaning Dungeness crabs.
Click HERE to view the NOAA Tidal Projections for the tidal stations located along the Oregon Coast. Click on About NOAA Tide Projections to view information about NOAA's tidal projections. NOAA Local Tide Conditions and Water Levles
Even though it seldom occurs marine toxins can develop in crabs. Be sure crab safe. Always call the shellfish Hotline at (503) 986-4728 or 1-800-448-2474 toll free outside of Oregon before harvesting clams or mussels for messages listing the areas closed to harvesting shellfish due to high levels of marine toxins. The information displayed on the ODA Shellfish Hotline Website or the ODFW Recreational Report websites may or may not be up to date and the information posted there may not be accurate and CANNOT be trusted. ODFW Shellfish Regulations, and the link to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department's OHV for ATV Enthusiast.
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