how long is the alaskan crab fishing season and how long do they have off? Average earnings per yer?
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Usually it's only a few days long like 72 hours, king crab is once a year and snow crab is I think twice a year. The pay is awesome if you catch alot of crab. Deckhands get anywhere from 500 bucks to 50 grand, again it depends on the catch and what the captains are paying. Their pay is based on a percentage of the total $$ amount collected for the catch by weight. The Discovery Channel has a show based on the lives of crab fisherman and the website is listed below.\nhttp://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadliestcatch/deadliestcatch.html\nI hope this answers your question and if your thinking of becoming a crab fisherman Good Luck, it's dangerous. Usually there is at least one death during each season.
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It sounds like you're going to be doing salt water fishing.  I'd suggest you get a rig with a heavy weight - like a 7 oz (it's shaped like a pyramid), and attach it to a rig that has 2 leaders, each with a small, single hook.  Bait the rig with blood worms, and fish it off the bottom.  You'll catch all kinds of stuff.  This time of year, you should be able to catch a bunch of croaker up there, maybe even some rockfish.
705805
Working fishing trawlers is pretty hard, and sometimes dangerous. I dont know where you live (obviously) but if you are serious about it, the only thing to do, is to visit your local harbours and approach the skippers as they prepare their boats for fishing. Someone must surely need help. Offer a days service free of charge to show them what your made of, but make sure there is a genuine offer of work before making that offer, otherwise you'll be working all week for free.\n\nYou could also work the harbour, i once knew a chap who helped nearly all the boats as they came back from fishing, helping to sort and unload the catch, an hour here, and an hour there soon adds up, and you wont be out in the dangerous weather. Good luck, its a nice change to find someone looking for work, not just avoiding it.
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I love going out on chartered fishing trips in the ocean, in fact last weekend I caught the biggest fish(small shark) and I won the jack pot. Fishing from the bank is so boring now.
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Check "Florida Sporstman Magazine". They have "world renowned" trips leaving from Miami-Keys. \n\nOn average, expect to pay $125-150 per person, per day,(if going for Black/White Marlin, Kingfish, Wahoo, Mahi). If your "bottom-fishing", (grouper, snapper, bee-liners, ETC), expect to pay less(party boats can be as low as $35-40 per person, per day).\n\nThere are numerous Charter's for hire. If you do "charter" a boat ask them question's like:\n\nDo I have to clean my own fish?\nIf we don't catch "ANYTHING" do I get my money back?\nHow long have you had your "captain's license"?\nDo I need to bring my own lunch?\n\nMy suggestion is to "pick wisely" who you decide to "charter". It can mean the difference between, an "OK time" and a "GREAT TIME".
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must be Alaska right?? I think it's 6 months of daylight and 6 months of night over there... :o)
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A crab gets it's soft shell crabs shortly after they molt their hard shell. In the United States, the blue crab is a good example.\n\nAs these crabs grow larger, their shells cannot expand, so they molt the exteriors and have a soft covering for a matter of days when they are vulnerable and considered usable. Fishermen often put crabs beginning to molt aside, until the molting process is complete in order to send them to market as soft shells. Crabs should be kept alive until immediately before cooking by the customer or restaurant so that they are fresh. Usually crabs must be eaten within four days of molting to be useful as soft shell crabs. They begin to rebuild their shells after that, and when eaten, have a thin shell developing, they are then referred to as "papershells" and are more crunchy when eaten—making them less desirable to many people.\n\nWith the blue crab in cold waters this molting is highly seasonal and usually lasts from early May to July.
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Off the beaten path, but Discovery has a series called The Deadliest Catch about crab fishing in Alaska. Very interesting. You will appeciate that red lobster meal a whole lot more.
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they are starting to pick up out there i would wait a month and it should be hitting.If your interested in other species as well ,the white sea bass are biting when the weather is good and you can fish around the kelp areas for calico's and yellows .you can check witht e boats that go out of santa barbara area the usually have a fishing report daily that will que you in as when to head out there.\ngood luck
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not long, but the real question is, when it's time to start fishing again... will the fisherman want to leave the welfare checks and start working again?\n\nOnce you get a taste of government dependency its hard to get motivated to return to self reliance...
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I have always fished for them in Florida, but the technique should be the same. I use size 1/0 hooks with a 1/4 inch weight stopped with a bead 6 inches from the hook . I fish off the bottom with live shrimp that I have cut into smaller sections. Drums, red and black, like to feed on the bottom so if you are going to use a lure like a jig you need to make sure you just bounce it along the bottom. The best time is while the tide is moving. I have found that the faster the tide is moving (in or out) the better luck I have. You should be able to check a local paper for tide times. The fish move with the tide, so when the tide is changing (dead tide) the fishing is usually not that good.Good Luck.
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this web site is mostly facts and tips on fishing in northern british columbia which is right next door to alaska. http://www.sportfishingbc.com/. excellent resource for tips on salt and freshwater salmon fishing right down to rods and bait and times of day. i have been fishing salmon and steelhead for over 30 years and i would recommend it.\nhave a great time
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buy blue crab cut it up put blue crab on hook cast off a dock  they love being in dark water  the dock makes a shadow across the water leaving every thing underneath it dark
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Canada is the place to be.  The province of Alberta is in the middle of an oil boom right now which means there is a serious shortage of labor here.  They are advertising all over the world looking for anyone that will come and help us out!  I saw a sign at a local fast food place the other day saying they start you out at $14/hr....flipping hamburgers!!!!  If you are interested in oilfield jobs they pay extremely well.  On drilling rigs, they start out at about $18/hr plus around $100/day tax free living allowance.  Some pay more.  You work 2 weeks of 12 hr shifts then a week off...the overtime really adds up!
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Try Utah lake it has good walleye fishing also it is good for white bass & and Cat fish if you like trout try straw berry  you could go to the Utah Divison of wild Life resorces home page and look at the fishing report to find a spot near you. a lot of the lakes there will be frozen over soon and Ice fishing will start I can't wait good luck
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It is NOT dark 6 months of the year in all of Alaska! We live in Anchorage and we get about six hours of daylight on the shortest day of the year (in December) and virtually 24 hours of daylight in the summer.\n\nIf you go further North, however, there will be less daylight during the winter and some parts have complete darkness for a few months in the winter (I think around three months or so), but then in the summer, the sun never sets for those folks in the far North for several months.
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Contact the Sportfishing landings, in So.Cal.\nThey use the same rods, as loaners, for tourists. They might have a plan to help you, or a suggestion on where to turn.