Tanner Crab Season Pt.7 - Offloading Crab Catch and Hoisting Gear

Welcome back, everyone! This video is the finale of our 2022 Tanner crab season. Thank you to all who have been watching and following the series! Stay tuned for upcoming jigging videos!
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[@duncancox2181]

Enjoyed the complete series of crab fishing, thank you.

[@bm-is2vs]

thanks guys for all the fishing videos

[@Benglator1]

They need an "EASY BUTTON" to unload that crab. 😎 Nice catch!!

[@robert12345678912312]

Good to have you back at the dock cleaning this and that. All those crabs off to the processor. Thank you for this episode. Hope the next few days go well for you folk.

[@mikefesh4052]

My family was stationed at the air station in the early 80's... no windmills then. ( except one home built one. ) They were still holding the Buskin river raft race. I worked part time at KMXT, the weekend folk music show.... Nice seeing the mountains again...

[@susanmathis7561]

Sure is neat watching you guys Crabbing and you all work very well together know mater what you do! Special Family💞

[@peteacher52]

This is the unglamorous side of fishing - the hard yakka, the nitty-gritty of cleaning, storing and maintaining equipment. You chaps are working in temperatures that even a brass monkey would pass on! 🙂 Col, NZ

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks, Colin. There is certainly a lot that happens aside from the fishing part. We are happy to be able to share the many aspects of commercial fishing, aside from the paperwork shuffle perhaps, lol!

[@ejmacewan8942]

NOTHING LESS THAN SUPER 👍,, THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION AND PASSION,,, GREAT JOB,,, MAY GOD BLESS YOUR REVENUE FLOW,, WITH SMILES..

[@kimberlyshalaby1134]

I enjoyed watching all 7 videos of the Tanner Crab Season. I liked seeing the.scenery around you, the sun rises, snow, and the life you Live with. Interesting. Fascinating. Exciting. Also enjoyed meeting & seeing the entire family, Dad, Mom, Matt, & your youngest Son. Thank you for these wonderful videos.

[@EISAlaska]

We really appreciate you following along on the series Kimberly! So glad to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks for the lovely comment.

[@carolinaghost5451]

i enjoy watching these videos, keep on filming

[@timbarton6611]

Awesome bunch of crab 🦀 great job be safe & stay strong God bless u & the family 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@marilynsimpson4640]

You are both blessed to work together. I’m sure not roses all the time, and pray your safety and success. We have been in the fish business for 48 years . In a small way we have experienced similar situations you run across.

[@shawndarling5855]

I also just would like to say you guys have a awesome ship you can set her up for any type of fishing you need to do.

[@ravennelson827]

Hard working crew good job I like work as my uncles said I could watch it all day LOL

[@shitloveaduck]

You guys are great! You get along so well and maintain your boat very well!! Nice clean and neat decks. This looks much better than the “Deadliest Catch” style of crabbing. It’s a nice pace, still makes for long days I’m sure, but the pace just seems much safer, less rushed and you had a great routine going! I’m new to the channel, so have been binge watching. I am from Southern Alberta, Canada so am completely landlocked!! 😂😂. I have spent time on the ocean. Did a very successful fishing trip on the west coast of Vancouver Island this summer from Kyuquot (K eye you cut - all rolled together) and it was amazing!! The day we were trolling for ling cod,,,, wow!! What a workout and for some reason they liked the way I was fishing, much better than the other guys so it was a serious workout!! Our biggest was just over 30 lbs so they weren’t as large as some guys were getting!! We still did well and I slept well that night!! (I spent a fair bit of time green in the face leaning over the rail as well!! 😂😂. Ugghhhh! 😂😂😂) I’m a land lubber!! I think you live in an amazing part of the world and are very fortunate! That boat itself is very versatile for the varied ways you fish to keep going year round. Nice stuff!! Now it’s not all positive,,,,,,, a Dodge??? You drive a Dodge??? 😂 😂😂😅😅. It’s a Cummins though,,,, all is forgiven,,,,. Please stay safe out there, Eh! Thanks so much for taking the time to share your experiences with us.

[@jarodfortson8588]

Thanks for the video, truthfully I really want to come down there to see in person how you all fish. But that neither here nor there.

[@alexduran6742]

Don't forget to hit a thumbs up if you enjoy, I am sure it helps their channel.

[@ThoughtfulWander]

Great episode! Stay safe EIS team!! 👍👍👊👊

[@kevinmaritz4519]

Your vid’s are a real pleasure. Thanks

[@michaelmount76]

Thanks for the video guys. Another great catch

[@davehalloween1684]

It surprising they dont have a system that pump water in hold and at same time vacuum it out with the crab🤔

[@blainestewart4197]

Way to go guys great channel thanks

[@philipmccumbee3624]

Dad, that boy of yours can fix just about anything.

[@dking749]

Fun to see all the goings on. thanks

[@joshmalleck2105]

when every one steps on the crab for off loading, does it crush them?

[@franklinneely3006]

I would give anything to come up and go out on the boat with yall for a season just to enjoy it

[@michaelcollins6851]

This was good I like seeing the little guys making a living I like seeing what all you have to do when you take those white tubes from the bottom of the holding bens you you taking them home for something or what dose that have to be done every time what if you come in to just dump and go

[@rongjohnson2448]

Snow on the ground in June on Kodiak Island that's amazing

[@markroth9827]

Nice job. Thank you for your video.

[@davidswindlehurst801]

Love your content! Stay safe out there!

[@leepatton1180]

Very nice first class all the way thanks for sharing

[@johnpierce1251]

Nice haul those were awesome looking crabs how many pounds was that it looked like a lot thanks for the crabbing trip enjoyed every minute of it stay my friends

[@brinkee7674]

I think he said he thought it was a little over 4000 lbs. See here 2:49

[@ballistic350]

awesome.. be safe out there...

[@ronald8ish]

Great video the end of the season

[@franklinneely3006]

That is a beautiful place

[@erichjung4192]

Thanks guys for great content . Your vids are really cathartic actually it's nice to see mellow genuine people doing what they love, Peace !

[@lakotakrueger5354]

Excellent guys

[@chewiepac5932]

Hey capt, ever heard about hanging a Octo arm in your primary hold to make the crab pack in tighter

[@kolejones6841]

just need to pump in and out the water and they go in tighter. do it about 2 or three times depending on who you are.

[@salmonhunter7414]

Now you have to design a table.

[@Stan_L]

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks for watching Stan!

[@ashfaqullah1420]

Really.u.have.experiacne u2or.3.mans verry hard.worker GOD.bless.u GOD.bless u

[@larrycresse753]

That was a great video.

[@TheCaptainbeefylog]

Jigging!! Woot! lol

[@lonnielengkeek7]

Lots of crab you didn't say your final weight, if you did I apologize I missed it. You guys actually unloaded pretty fast, all the gear and the crab you have it down to a science so to speak! Can't wait till the next video, good job guys!👍 I missed part 6!! 👌🤔👌😢

[@rodneystarkey8567]

Tt you are great keep it up

[@adiharmayadi4495]

Good Job

[@Glock30Fan]

Seems like someone should invent an apparatus to pull the pots up a stack at a time instead of one by one.

[@EISAlaska]

The processing plants will hoist a stack all at once, but our single can really handle it, as you need to get them swung over the dock. One at a time goes quickly and we just hand stack them in our truck. Saves hiring a boom truck to transport them home.

[@MyPromixdirt]

27:57 to28:14 ,what a fantastic try at deflection, lmao

[@66bigbuds]

Nice underwater spiders.

[@Shewars]

nice

[@williamtukeyjr3661]

Lot of work--nothing easy about it.

[@ozgurozdemir4518]

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[@rongjohnson2448]

Crab in our town in Connecticut sells for $50 a pound which would be $200,000 for your 4000 lb across the counter here

[@rongjohnson2448]

Your 4000 lb would be $200,000 across the counter

[@EISAlaska]

Crab is very expensive now and we had the highest ex-vessel prices posted in the history of the Kodiak Tanner fishery. Bear in mind if the crab is sold as cooked sections, the yield is about 60%, so based on that value would be around $120,000. Still a lot of cabbage!

[@rongjohnson2448]

I got wasted at the Mecca Inn at one time in 1970

[@4909ak]

Why not put the bucket by the 2 holds that have crab and 2guys in the big one and one guy in the smaller one?

[@michaelbrausch8874]

You guys need a trailer!

[@EISAlaska]

We certainly do! Poor old truck works hard.

[@scottdilley356]

Poor tee lol

[@ossisc]

How many pounds did you deliver?

[@ThoughtfulWander]

sheesh is it ok for them to stand on the catch?? i was wondering how they unload it..

[@googeelou]

Was wondering the same thing.

[@TheCaptainbeefylog]

A lot of people used to complain in the comments about that. Matt and Len have explained it that they're not putting their full weight on individual crabs. The weight gets spread out just by the sheer mass of crab/fish in the hold. So as long as you're not jumping up and down it's fine.

[@ThoughtfulWander]

@@TheCaptainbeefylog gotcha thanks! 👍👍

[@EISAlaska]

Spot on Captain. Same goes with fish, tread lightly and all is well!

[@googeelou]

@@TheCaptainbeefylog Got it

[@ThoughtfulWander]

So do you all lease the crab traps from the processing plant or do you own them? you might have told us before and i must have missed it... ahh never mind i see you taking them home.. my bad...

[@scotabot7826]

I'm sure someone from the boat stands and watches the scales as they weigh them, right?

[@EISAlaska]

You bet we do. The plant doesn't allow cameras or filming up on the dock, so just got a little clip from up top. The aluminum bucket has a scale attached and weights are recorded by the plant and us.

[@rongjohnson2448]

Are those Japanese customers unloading the crab?

[@gjeepster]

What was your total weight of the crab?

[@marcchapman4875]

Nice haul ........ How are you dealing with the fuel costs?

[@EISAlaska]

Fueled up today Marc. $340 for 60 gallons diesel. Thankful the Fish Tale is good on fuel.

[@GoldVP...]

Woo-hoo....going back in time....just starting to watch now. I'll comment after, as in edit this one lol. I'm not a fan of mass messaging, just for a few words...yup you got lucky with weather.... Like #689...doing great fam... ....IS MOM PILOTING??? Lol that guy is literally standing on the crab... Wth? 🍻🇨🇦🍻 Ummm question! What would them guys be getting paid? I calculated if they got $.25 /crab, that equally $750, on 5000 crab. $0.07/crab? WHOOP THERE IT IS!..nice tight clamp $900 for fuel? Minus the award lol Silly question...would that sand contain gold? Seriously there's gold at the ocean bottom, in places. I prospect gold

[@rongjohnson2448]

Cool they're paying about $8 a pound right? $32000 not too shabby

[@shawndarling5855]

How many pots are you licensed to use

[@EISAlaska]

Thirity pot limit this year as the quota exceeds 4 million pounds. Less than 4 million GHL(quota) is 20 pot limit.

[@chriskulpa4056]

How come you guys didn't have to unload the crab, because they were so backed up? I hope that doesn't mean you get less money for them.

[@davehalloween1684]

So in reality your not fill hole with water it just use to suck up crab in a big vacuum

[@kerrypitt9789]

I know in 2022 Tanner Crab prices were very good ! More realistic than what they want to pay you in 2023! That is rediculous! With this bitter crab disease you can't really release infected crabs and if you put them in a communal holding tank well that's no better! But this will cause a shortage and they want to rip you off by going to Russia for more Crab??!! No! They pay local producers a fair price for all of the clean crab, then top up with Russia or China, who you are technically at war with. It may not be my business but us Coasters have to stick together, Canadian or American we are the same people.