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Albert Head to Crabbing - PADDLE

Catch your own lunch! - details to follow

When Saturday, June 17, 2023 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location Albert Head
1 of 15 open Free
Destination Crabbing
Trip style Day
Experience Basic
Distance 4 nm
Route plan A

The BC free fishing weekend is June 16-18 - no licence is required. Catch your own lunch!

Master crabber Edmond Duggan will hold a clinic on crabbing techniques - all you need to know about crabbing, including how to prepare the crabs for the table.

Edmond will supply crab traps and gear and send each registered paddler notes of details & requirements: (ie. bait, floats etc.)

Traps will be placed under Edmond's guidance and we will go for a short paddle, to allow the crabs to show up. ie a normal relaxed paddle - beach talk, all safety gear etc.

Edmond will demonstrate how to prepare and cook the crabs for lunch. Corn & butter will be supplied. Please bring a plate + something to share (eg crackers, cheese etc) for the feast.

An opportunity for new fishers to try out crabbing (preference to new participants)

Updates will be sent out nearer the event.

Registration & inquiries - contact Vic (victorturkington@gmail.com)

Enjoy - Let the feast begin..!

Route plan B

TBA

Safety reminders

Always dress for the possibility of immersion and please bring a drybag containing a spare change of clothes. The drybag goes in your kayak with you, not in your car at the launch site. Please bring a lunch or snacks and sufficient beverage to keep you hydrated, as well as a thermos of something warm. Your paddle leader will introduce the plan and make sure everyone is comfortable with the requirements. Please stay off the water until the group is ready. If you have a VHF radio please bring it with you.

Albert Head tide/current reference

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Tide & current predictions

CHS provides tide heights and current predictions. Secondary current stations are estimates; large-tide estimates are identified separately. Tide turns and slack water are independent. Conditions along the route vary with location.

CHS atlas & lookup licences

Canadian Atlas of Tidal Currents, Volume 3: Juan de Fuca Strait to Strait of Georgia (2016), Canadian Hydrographic Service, Fisheries and Oceans Canada. © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2022.

Map images are reproduced from the CHS publication and selected for the date and time shown. The publication permits noncommercial reproduction in any format; commercial reproduction requires prior written permission from CHS. This viewer is not an official CHS publication and is not to be used for navigation.

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Dewey atlas attribution

Salish Sea Tidal Current Atlas and calendar lookup tables by Richard K. Dewey, self-published. The selected volume and map number are shown in the viewer. SISKA displays extracted map images and selects them using the author's lookup tables.

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Albert Head to Crabbing - PADDLE

Saturday, June 17, 2023 · 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Launch
Albert HeadDelgada Road, Metchosin
Destination
Crabbing
Distance
4 nm
Leader
Vic Turkington

Route plan A

The BC free fishing weekend is June 16-18 - no licence is required. Catch your own lunch!

Master crabber Edmond Duggan will hold a clinic on crabbing techniques - all you need to know about crabbing, including how to prepare the crabs for the table.

Edmond will supply crab traps and gear and send each registered paddler notes of details & requirements: (ie. bait, floats etc.)

Traps will be placed under Edmond's guidance and we will go for a short paddle, to allow the crabs to show up. ie a normal relaxed paddle - beach talk, all safety gear etc.

Edmond will demonstrate how to prepare and cook the crabs for lunch. Corn & butter will be supplied. Please bring a plate + something to share (eg crackers, cheese etc) for the feast.

An opportunity for new fishers to try out crabbing (preference to new participants)

Updates will be sent out nearer the event.

Registration & inquiries - contact Vic (victorturkington@gmail.com)

Enjoy - Let the feast begin..!

Route plan B

TBA