Fishing with SHORE CRABS and RUBBER BANDS!!

lol Oh wow, the

crabs

can't hear, they might not be reacting to my calls. There will be a really very interesting video for me, the first time I do this. I'm going to collect about five or six really small

crabs

. in this cup they are approximately two inches in diameter. I'm going to bait them to keep them alive. Fish them off the rocks. Just get some right now. Just one right there. There are a couple right there. A couple more in that crack. Another one up there. Oh man, I don't know how I'm going to get some of these real quick.

He has to find the dumb crab. Oh oh, damn, they're fast. Hmm man, there must be hundreds of crabs on this little rock outcropping, so just. Think on this half-mile pier there have to be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of these little crabs. I should be able to get five, that's all, I just want five. Another way we can get some of these crabs to turn over a big rock like these tons of little babies, but that's not what we want for bait, you want something a little bigger, let this little guy go, that's more than what I'm talking about, oh, but you can sell, it's a female and it has eggs. and today I am in the mood to forgive, although it would be legal to keep this.

I'm going to let it go, that's what I'm talking about, that's the size I'm looking for, so I guess not. I have to get them on the big rocks like this. You could just look around these little rocks. There are males and females. Look at that thing over there. It's an apron. It has more of a diamond tip shape. It's a male. That goes in the bucket. It goes in the cup. Well, I was able to collect about seven or eight crabs of different sizes, all males ready to go, no females, so we don't have to worry about eggs being wasted before we get into the thick, meaty part of this video,

fishing

with crabs alive.

I also got a new rock swim bait

fishing

technique like this that you probably haven't used before, but before I get into that I want to talk about the sponsor of this video a couple of months ago, this company is called Simply Safe Home Security System. I emailed myself and at the time I didn't really pay much attention to it, but after a while I started to think that I do these overnight trips a lot, two-night and three-night camping trips. I'm hundreds of miles away. Sometimes I'm away from home and it wouldn't be a bad idea to have my house secure, help keep my family safe, and keep my belongings safe too.

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Okay, so here's how I fixed it up a little bit so that it has an ounce of weight on the bottom. I quick twist and tied a dropper loop here but I also tied a sled that doesn't have a perfect loop and goes straight down so it can swing but it's not long enough to hit the bottom now the

rubber

bands

I'm on I'm going to use these are dental elastic

bands

for when you have braces, please keep your mouth together, so little elastic bands like that. I'm going to take two of them, maybe the color of the crab, something orange.

Open my glass, let's see what. we get here, okay there are some good crabs here, a little big and this one looks good, today we'll start with a small little one, oh I'll stay there, stay there, that's the bait to put the hook on. I was thinking about putting the hook there or in his body like that, but I'm not too sure. I think right there in the back would be nice. Sorry, little crab. I know. I know you didn't think this would happen in your life, but. It's, I'm going to put the

rubber

band over his leg on the hook so you can swing his legs and act like he's alive two rubber bands one hook if there's any fish that won't eat a pretty looking crab Well for me, look what it looks like in the water, okay little crab, you're going to go into a little hole right here, let's see if anyone is interested, maybe you have to go deeper, but this is the first little hole, see how deep we can arrive.

If there's any cab I know in the love crab, you always find a little crab like this in your stomach, so if I could find a fish, I know it's going to take this, let's take it out and see if we still have our crab, yeah , we have it. Oh, barely. Although hooked, I think it would be better if we hooked it on the belly part. Well, look here, another hole, right here, he's going to bust it out along all these little rocks. There are tons of holes. There are a lot of big rocks, so this crab is going to burst.

All the time here it's about finding the spot, so I'll keep walking until I find a good hole, a good bunch of holes if I don't get any fish, oh, there's a fish, oh, did you see I bet my fish, oh, oh , I? I have one I had one let me see Oh the crabs are still there, totally bitten, although there are fish here and he wants the crab, come on baby, right here, oh, there it is, go, look, did you see that's a hundred percent percent fish? You are looking for a crab seat. I mean, it makes sense because these crabs are so abundant, why wouldn't they be one of their main food sources here?

No, you probably don't even need rubber bands to fish it like that, all you need is probably just a hook. through the body of the crab I'm just trying to keep the crab alive this is promising the further you go the deeper the more likely you are to get a fish there are a lot of pelicans okay I have high hopes right? Nice little ledge here, any fish right here should be able to bite into the food pretty deep. I like it. I like it. Oh yeah, there we go a little deeper, a little deeper into the hole.

Over here, scroll down a little bit more. Nice little deep hole. right here, nice little hole, pretty deep here, totally could have been some fish in here, yeah that was a nice deep hole there, but nothing, oh man, I got hooked, so I tied it back up. Here is the slightly new rig, with a 2 ounce weight on the bottom, I still just got it. the crab is straight on a dropper loop, there's no long leader now so if there's any fish there I should catch it, hopefully it won't just pinch my line but that's a cranky little man, it's been a couple of hours and I've only gotten a couple of bites, it's tough.

To keep fishing for this crab, you know, every time I take my boat out, I always have my fish finder and right between the harbor and the ocean, I always see a nice structure in the middle, so I'll try to cast it. this guy came out and I hope he stays now. I'm going to let this guy soak for a while and see if any fish saw him and came looking for him, so that's the plan right now, after that if that doesn't work out I'll do it. I'm just going to try swim baits. I know they are much more effective.

I thought I'd try something new and I bet this would work. I mean, you see them in Cabazon stomachs all the time. These crabs, so I'm going to give it a toss right here. I hope it stays on, yes, oh yes, it stays on well. I threw that thing very far now. Bayden waited a bit. He got all these pelicans, even though all this poop everywhere, every inch of every rock is covered in poop. This flies everywhere. These are not the best conditions to go fishing here from the pier. The best time, I suppose, would be to wait until the storms come and wash away all the rocks, but right now and the poop is flying everywhere, almost a bitten bærum, unbearable.

I know I don't want to let these crabs suffer. longer if I'm not going to use them, so I say goodbye to my little friends, let them live a little, there is a good crab here, if I don't catch anything with this, maybe I'll switch to swim bait. It was a bad idea if I bite and lose that shit now I have no bait, huh, maybe I should have thought about that before literally cutting something up. This is how I tie the rig. This is a canoe man loop, just like you. We're seamlessly tying a loop, a twist, and a twist right behind it, but this time you go through the first loop, hold them together and that little bit of extra tag, go through the eye of whatever you want to mount, and then attach the tag. through that loop that you went through, pull the tag down and then bring it all together and it forms a little loop so you can swing it freely and it doesn't get stuck right there on the line.

It's also very strong, it doesn't get stuck on the line like a fisherman's knot, it's like pushing but the chances of catching bigger fish are much better and you don't have to get eels all the time, it keeps moving. I want to touch anything, there's so much poop everywhere, everywhere I go seems like a good place, like here there are little slippery, deep, dark edges down, but I haven't had any luck yet. Come on, I'm really down. I probably am. 15 feet deep there's something hidden in there this God that we like I know I just walked into someone's little dungeon, someone's little cave, someone's little lair, and they're just looking at this thing right in front of them, come on, bite it, I hear you, I hear you.

I have one, oh my goodness, lucky you, you plug it in, I'll throw it in now, what is this? A little fish here. What is this little thing? Know? I know this wasn't what I was trying to prove, but I mean, I swear if you fish. between the rocks like this with a swimbait there are a lot of fish there. I guess this one was out there, a nice black rockfish, well, I'll release it cleanly. I don't know if there's a bank of them out there. They must be stacked so I'm going to try to tell you how to get another one so you know you can't see behind me so there are two docks, the north dock and the south dock.

Right now I'm on the north jetty, it basically looks like this, but where it all starts is pretty much rocks here and then sand there, but the further you go the farther the rocks come out, so when you get to the end of the jetties like This is when you can start finishing a Swimbait further out because you know there are rocks stacked about 30 feet away, but when you're close they're only straight where you can see them. Sorry for that beep, a lot of people, oh, that could have been a rock. I was going to say sorry for that beep.

I know a lot of people don't like that sound when I come here to film but it's a foghorn for boats it just lets them know there are rocks here and you might want to be careful well I caught a fish with the bait swimming, so I have to go back to the original intention of this video which was to catch the fish with this crab, so I put it back together and this one I have to fix. go up the same way with the dropper loop on the top crab right there and the weight on the bottom so hopefully the crab can't get into a little hole and now that there are rocks out there I can throw them and let them fall. soaks so this video will be now or we're going to catch a fish so let's do this and try our best not to cast too far right where I know there are some fish right where I know there are some rocks yeah there are some.

Okay, now we're just going to wait.