Here's a three hour soak in 60 feet of water at the Towers on Ten Mile (about the 38º 06" line). A half pound of squid in the bait jar caught 14 Dungeness, all keepers. It made me wonder why I dropped four pots until I pulled the next one and found only two crab in it. "Pirates!" I thought. Then I noticed that the door wasn't latched and I vaguely remembered dropping the bungy hook over the frame, not into the wire, and realized I had pirated myself. So, I basically need to run extra gear to make up for my carelessness. I'll need to buy some extra gear, then, because the crab numbers will start dropping soon after the commercial gear starts dropping. There's a chance that the commercial fleet will end up crammed into the area between Point Reyes and Gualala, depending on the outcome of the next crab test from Duxbury Reef. Should that happen you'll be able to walk on the buoys. Fingers crossed for a clean test. Ten Mile and the deeper water (150'+) will still have a lot of crab for us (over 5.75" and less than 6.25") but I think we all like to catch jumbos.

 The crabbing inside the bay has really dropped off. There are still some Dungeness getting caught but I only heard of one guy this weekend that was happy with his total. The average has been 0 to 2 with a couple guys catching half limits and one fellow with a lot of gear catching 28.