{"id":656,"date":"2012-07-15T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:46:11","slug":"port-townsend-crabbing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/blog\/port-townsend-crabbing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Townsend Crabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Crab season kicked off July 1st this year, open on a 5 days a week schedule and most summer crabbers have been enjoying plenty of these yummy critters in the crab pots. Our charters have been running combination <strong>1\/2 day Bottomfishing\/ Dungeness Crabbing<\/strong> trips\u00a0all month and with the weather absolutely spectacular &#8211;Captain Dave, deckhand Spencer have been a busy crew\u00a0aboard\u00a0the charter boat\u00a0<em>Siwash.<\/em>\u00a0 The boat has been launching from the <em>Fort Worden Marine Science Center Pier<\/em> mid-morning, setting crab pots in Port Townsend Bay\u00a0and\u00a0running south to the sand-dab grounds while the pots &#8220;soak&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/blog\/port-townsend-crabbing-2\/attachment\/johnnydab\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-658\" title=\"Johnny Dab\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JohnnyDab-140x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JohnnyDab-140x186.jpg 140w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JohnnyDab-215x286.jpg 215w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JohnnyDab-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JohnnyDab.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/blog\/port-townsend-crabbing-2\/attachment\/hershbergerparty71212\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-661\" title=\"July fishing\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Hershbergerparty71212-140x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Hershbergerparty71212-140x105.jpg 140w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Hershbergerparty71212-215x161.jpg 215w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Hershbergerparty71212-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Hershbergerparty71212.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/blog\/port-townsend-crabbing-2\/attachment\/emmiecopper-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Copper Rockfish, pic and release\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/emmiecopper1-215x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This time of year Admiralty Inlet and the Strait are alive with bait, birds and all sorts of marine wildlife &#8212; our Port Townsend charters have spotted <strong>harbor porpoises, river otters, seals and sea lions, a plethora of marine birds\u00a0and even a minke whale<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/blog\/port-townsend-crabbing-2\/attachment\/harbor-seals-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-695\" title=\"Harbor seals\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Harbor-seals2-215x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Harbor-seals2-215x140.jpg 215w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Harbor-seals2-140x91.jpg 140w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Harbor-seals2-450x294.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Harbor-seals2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0past week we&#8217;ve hosted groups from California, Texas, Indiana and Florida&#8211; great times\u00a0out on the water (and\u00a0the making of many yummy dinners ) were had by all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Crab season kicked off July 1st this year, open on a 5 days a week schedule and most summer crabbers have been enjoying plenty of these yummy critters in the crab pots. Our charters have been running combination &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/blog\/port-townsend-crabbing-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}