Tillamook Area Crabbing Guide

Watch Jamison pull pots heavy with Dungeness on one of the Oregon Coast’s most productive estuaries. Five rivers feed Tillamook Bay, carving deep channels and structure that hold fat, legal-size crab from late summer through winter. Captain Jamison Johnson runs trips for parties who want to come home with a full cooler… not stories about the ones that crawled away.

Jamison launches from Garibaldi aboard his boat stocked with commercial-grade traps and fresh bait. He sets the gear, reads the tide, and works the productive holes while he pulls, sorts, and measures. Catch is cleaned dockside; you take home meat ready for enjoying pot. No gear to buy, no guesswork about where the crab are running this week.

Half-day crabbing trips or add crabbing onto a fishing trip for a nominal amount. Gear and bait. Cleaning and cooking available at the marina.

Bring layers, polarized sunglasses, sunblock and a cooler for your catch.

Tillamook Crabbing Gallery