Here's an excellent report from Kyle Maclachlan: "
Just wanted to share some pics from our crab opener. We worked 3 pots and had 3 good pulls. My 22” pot had 10 crabs, 2nd pot for 8 and 3rd had 16! All were from ten mile beach and the fish were from point reyes reefs. Couldnt believe the t- shirt weather down at the point. Hopefully a catch like this is worthy of the fishing report, I always follow the reports, thanks." Absolutely worthy. It doesn't look like the dirty water bothered the crab or the rockfish, at least for you. There is a CDPH warning now for crabs caught south of Point Reyes (to Pigeon Point) and north of Point Arena. It's the standard "clean 'em before you cook 'em" warning for two crabs that were a few parts per million over the warning threshhold. The crabs out of Bodega and Tomales Bays have tested okay and the other areas should be clear before the commercial fleet gets their chance at them on the 22nd.
There are some nice Dungeness inside Tomales Bay and in the outer bay but the guys getting decent numbers are really putting in the time and fuel to drop and test, then move and drop and test, trying to find the place with the crab. Letting your gear soak all day where the crab aren't is not a good way to get your limit. These guys know where the crabs are. Or were.
Mike Mack and Tim Nelson made a run down to Elephant on Saturday for some ling cod and they found them. The big one was in the mid-twenties. It was nice to see a few fish among all the Dungeness madness.
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To you all, totally outstanding. Enjoy your feast.
Made our way down from Cool, Ca for a midweek trip. Fished 6 pots off 10 mile and found them on first drop! 2 hour soak and kept the jumbos from the first three for 2 limits. Brought them in and picked up the other 2 in our group and pulled 3 more pits and had 2 more limits. Last pot had 21 keepers. Great crabbing year so far! Not sure how to post pics, but if someone could help I would be glad to send them in.
You did very well. Be on the look out for a approx. 21' white convertible top Pursuit make boat named "Reel Easy" it's a crab pirate boat. I saw it hanging around 10 mile on Thursday while we were waiting to pick up our traps. At 2 pm we saw it in the parking lot at Westside, it just came out. Coastside fishing club posted the information last year. On the boat is usually 4 persons.
It's bad enough to steal any time, but to steal crabs when they are as abundant as they are now is total depravity.
I took 2 friends on Friday and then 4 on Monday, so made the tough decision to rebait the traps and leave them over the weekend. It was hard to sleep all weekend! Monday four were plugged with crab and two were empty. However, I’m pretty sure that the empty ones were due to operator error my me. The bait was basically bones, and my ghetto traps had defects where the crabs probably got out. Anyway, happy to say I don’t think I was pirated and we got our easy 50 jumbos. After limiting on rockfish, we were pulling traps full of big crabs and just dumping them back in the drink, catch and release crabbing!
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