Crabbing in the bay is starting to drop off but remains better than at almost any time last season. That's not saying much, as last year was pitiful. Almost everyone in a boat is getting a few keeper Dungeness at least. Heck, I even caught five in an hour on Thursday. One boat came by as I was landing number five and said he'd caught four so far in the channel. I went home, cooked my crab and cleaned the boat, and when I returned to the shore to share my crab guts with the birds I saw the same boater pulling out. After I left the tide turned and he and his crew put another 50 crab in the boat. I'd almost think I left too soon, until I started picking crab. Five was good. Tasted good, too. Bur the same boater, yesterday, only caught twenty on the tide turn. Now, twenty sounds pretty good for in the bay, and it is, but not to a boat full of people that had fifty the day before. Maybe if they'd been picking all those crab they'd feel different? Either way, today in or out of the bay was slower but didn't suck. For sure, if you go, drop your hoops where you think it's good. Then go back to the first and pull it. If there's some crab around you should have at least one in ten minutes. No crab, stack it. If you find a spot with crab, plug it with your hoops. If you don't, keep moving and try again. No matter how good a crabber you are, you can't catch what isn't there, and they seem to be clumped in smaller areas. Keep moving until you find them, then soak them up. Don't drop your hear and go fish for rockfish. It isn't that good of a crab year. You can fish after you locate the crab. Remember your priorities.