Crab

[WAcoueshunter]

We put in a good effort around Brinnon on Hood Canal on Saturday.  Hardly any crab at all, let alone keepers.  A ton of pots out there, I don't imagine the locals bother anymore, must just be all the 4th of July tourists like me. No idea if it makes a difference, but surface water temp was 65 degrees.  For contrast, it is 56 degrees right now in MA 10. 

Came back to MA 10 yesterday and did fine.  It was a bit picked over from the busy weekend (lots of crab, just few keepers), but we scratched out a couple limits over 3 hours or so. 

[CP]

I got out in area 8-2 on Sat morning early.  Wicked tides so I planned to get off the water before the weekend crowds showed and the  -2.5 low screwed things up.

I almost stay too long though, between the guy dropping his boat off the trailer on one ramp and the guy putting his dingy together in the other ramp, recovering the boat was a challenge.  The line was starting to build and things were sure to get even more entertaining as the day progressed and the water level dropped. 

Did manage to limit on crabs but it wasn’t a slam dunk by any means.  Hopefully the crabbing will improve when the tides mellow out a bit.

[Bronson]

We pulled 8 dungies from MA9 on Sunday morning.  Had a hard time finding the crab initially.  Once we did we got all 8 on one pull between 4 pots.  Unfortunately that was the last pull of the day so we couldnt send them down for more.  Not the greatest crabbing I have seen, but I wont complain about bringing some home.

[runamuk]

We'll be out in 8-2 tomorrow morning with 17000000000 of my best friends.

This was an accurate guess.  The crabs were apparently flowing and still are based on the couple hundred pots still out front.  The boat launch was epic mayhem on Saturday it was absolutely nuts.  I will be so happyto see it go back to just a normal state of a busy summer weekend, man that was a rough day at work.

[SweetCosmicPope]

I'm kinda hoping the newness of the season wears of soon and it's not nearly as busy as this last weekend.  I may try to drop pots again this weekend.

I overheard some guys talking when I rolled up around 7AM on Sunday morning.  Apparently, just before I got there, a couple of guys got in a fight over who had a particular spot on the pier.  Ridiculous.

I miss having a boat so I don't have to deal with those lunatics on the pier. lol

[hunthard]

I had some pots soaking up towards Brinnon this weekend, didn't kill em but got enough to eat for dinner.

[yum tag soup]

Around potlatch wasn't good for me this weekend. Lots of females and undersized males. Must be nice to get first crack at them and no I'm not talking about other recreational fishermen getting there first 

[Bronson]

I don't think the tribes cleaned out the potlatch area crab, at least not this year.  Crabbing down there has been very poor for about 3 years now unless you find a perfect little pocket, which are still few and far between.  From what I have been hearing the locals aren't even bothering to leave pots out.

[hunthard]

This is why I left Potlatch/ Hoodsport this year and went north, although I didn't really clean up I did manage to get into some crab, the crabbing down south has been really bad for me the last 3 years, when you soak a pot for 24 hours and only have small crab to show for it something is wrong, I zip tie my clean out door so no one is getting in there before me.