Blake Island Crabbing

Blake island is a favorite location for kayaking bird watching and year round camping.

Blake island crabbing. Hunker down in one of the cascadia marine trail campsites at the west end of the island for majestic sunsets over the olympic mountains. Blake island state park marina is closed year round to shellfish harvest. A wide array of crab traps are available from a variety of area sporting goods stores and the red and white buoys marking the traps are a common site on the water during the short. For location and directions use google maps be sure to check your local laws to see when and where you can crab and if a license is required.

Nestled between bainbridge island and vashon island the 476 acre island once was privately owned and then in 1974 became blake island state park. Boats are regularly scheduled by tillicum village between march and october. Blake island state park blake island state park is a 475 acre marine camping park with five miles of saltwater beach shoreline providing magnificent views of the olympic mountains and the seattle skyline. Here is a collection of specific areas to catch dungeness crabs by region.

Blake island state park and marina clams mussels and oysters open june 8 through december 31 except blake island state park marina closed year round to shellfish harvest. The cascadia marine trail with blake island in the southern section book a boat tour to blake island state park. The park is only reachable by tour boat or private boat. Crab season starts with a two day opener july 1st and 2nd and follows up with crabbing every thursday through monday through labor day weekend.

A northwest flavors inspired buffet meal with traditionally prepared alder fire roasted fish and a live stage performance featuring northwest native american storytelling are. Blake island marine state park is a 1 127 acre marine camping park with 5 miles of saltwater beach shoreline. Whether you re lounging on your vessel kayaking the cascadia marine trail or enjoying tillicum as part of a tour blake island will exceed expectations. Blake island is an excellent place to launch a boat to search out the elusive and meaty dungeness crab but other less popular crabs are plentiful in the area.

For those people who don t have a kayak sailboat or motorboat you too can visit blake island via a boat tour from downtown seattle. Strait of juan de fuca at neah bay east of the bonilla tatoosh line sekiu port angeles deception pass to east point and east point to possession point are all open now through september 7th. This is considered marine area 8 1 and 8 2.