Saturday, November 5, 2022

     Here's two limits of Dungeness from inside Tomales bay. Most people crabbing in the bay did not do as well. There weren't many skunks but there weren't many limits, either. Successful numbers seemed to cluster around 6 to 15 in a boat. Ten Mile mostly sucked but a few guys were able to do well. Here's a report from Spaced Invader: "Got 2 limits off the Towers with 
3 rings and one hoop...
Took a little over 3 hours 
Some jumbos in the mix but mostly medium to barley legal. 
Sure you have more reports then needed to make a decision to make a run for them...
Anyways, they taste pretty darn good!
Clean and hard " So there's a few down there. A Hawaiian guy I know had a hundred keepers in one pull of his gear on Ten Mile in 150 feet of water. He didn't give me a precise location, but the beach is only ten miles long. How hard could it be to figure it out? The Outer Bay didn't have crab everywhere but seemed like the best best with some of the best averages. I didn't hear of any skunks there. I know of one boat that only had a couple of crab on Ten Mile and returned to the Outer Bay to finish with 26 keepers. The Russian River had good crab but a few were light and soft.  Rockfishing was a bust for everybody I heard from.

    Yesterday we had a crabber passed out drunk on the beach before Dungeness even opened, so I was a little concerned for how the day would go today. It was a bit of a Charlie Foxtrot on the beach but everybody seemed to be in good spirits and the only yelling I heard was from Gage (he gets a bit wound up). For those counting, only four stuck cars on the beach this morning. Slow day. I hope the rest of Dungeness season goes as smoothly.

   It won't, of course.

   

 

4 comments:

  1. Hey Willy , what depths were they finding them in the outer bay?

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    1. I didn't hear specific depths but from the description it sounded like 60 to 80 feet

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  2. How did the boat/dock less fellows casting snares from the surf do?

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