Crab reports fron the bay have been almost universally bad, but a few guys have figured out some tricks and caught some decent numbers of Dungeness. I heard of one boat with 45 on the opener. The last few days a couple of boats landed 17 to 40 crab. Mostly people had 2 to 10 Dungeness.  The ocean has many crab out deeper but getting there from here has been a problem. Big seas have shut down the bay. There may be a window tomorrow but it is short. There were a few halibut caught over the last few days but hundreds of buoys made halibut fishing difficult. 

   The boats that have been getting out of Bodega have found good crab in sandy spots from 80 to 200 feet of water. Deeper is probably better as the warm water probably isn't happy for Dungeness.  Unlucky for them, since they don't have fish tails and need to walk their way to safety. Deeper is closer than north, so probably deeper they went. And yet the 6-packs are catching bonito while pulling Dungeness gear, so I guess those legs aren't working fast enough.