What's all that splashing? Just commercial Dungeness pots hitting the water, finally. The horizon was alight with boats splashing gear this evening after a one week delay while the price of crab was sorted out. I don't think either side got the price they wanted, but bills don't pay themselves and the weather has dropped, so a-crabbing they will go. I hear that there's not as many boats fishing this area this year, so numbers of crab may hold up a bit longer, but you can expect the numbers of jumbos to start dropping. There have been a lot of sub-6 1/4" sport keeper crabs so there will still be catching, just less bragging. Inside the bay the crab put on a pretty good show today with half of the crabbing boats pulling out early due to limits. Early exits are usually either success or frustration and it was good to see the former. One boater I spoke with pulled his hoops after their first soak and found them completely blank. He (very correctly) moved and found his next string to be plugged. He ran through them a few times to limit for four guys and ended up shaking keepers on the end of the string. You gotta crab where the crab are, and they move around, so, so should you.