Lackner leads “ Crab Clinics ” on Siletz Bay shore, a good spot to try a simple shore-based method of hauling in some local Dungeness crab using a folding crab trap with a hand line.

Recreational Dungeness crab season opens Nov. 6 and, in response to new regulations by the Fish and Game Commission, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife may prohibit crab traps ...

Along the coast north of Pigeon Point to the California/Oregon border, covered by Fishing Zones 1, 2, and 3, commercial fishing for crab will remain open under existing trap reductions.