Crabbing in Newport

This past weekend, we went with the kids and my parents to Newport to do some dock crabbing in Yaquina Bay.  We stayed overnight in a Rogue suite at the Embarcadero, and were able to use the dock and cooker there.  We've been told that the best months for crabbing are the ones that end in "ember," or, alternatively, the ones that end in "r."  Also, the word on the street is that it has been a "strange" season for crab.  Fortunately, we were able to catch enough red rock crab (no limits on size or sex) plus one keeper dungeness to feed us that evening.  Yum!

(We did NOT keep this starfish!)