A little better weather today, so a little better story. The bay still has some Dungeness in it although they are still aren't distributed evenly. You need to work the right spot to get them, and the right spots tend to move around. On average, the channel near steel marker #5 is pretty hard to beat if the current isn't ripping. The pier is still producing crab, and it is still producing more crab for some than others. Randy from Carson City is here, so if you do come to crab on the pier in the next few days, at least you can watch someone else catch a few. It was nice enough for at least one boat to run down to Ten Mile and drop some pots. On the way back they saw a white shipping container (Conex box) washed up behind Bird Rock. It could be some of the tsunami debris, but it probably just washed off a local ship.

There have been some decent crab numbers from the pier in the last week. On a couple of different days some crabbers had a dozen keepers by noonish. The best action is around slack tide, as usual. I don't have any boat reports. No word on the surf fishing, either, but it looks to be kind of brackish with all the runoff lately and probably not too good for catching.

The weather is doing a pretty good job of keeping the boats off the water. Gusts to 35 knots and seas over 20 feet high will do that. The pier is still kicking out a few crabs for those that don't mind standing out in the rain. A couple of fellows this morning caught 9 Dungeness by 10:30 or so, then decided they were wet enough and left. The folks that came after didn't do as well. The last few days have seen a few guys getting half-limits from the pier. Some of the others haven't done as well, but such is fishing.

One fellow on the pier had 4 Dungeness before 11:00 this morning. Everyone else was playing catch-up until the divers showed up. They did well by freediving under the pier for their crab. For future divers, I recommend diving a little further afield. Don't dive where someone may think that you are taking crab from their gear. It doesn't matter if you are or not; appearances are everything. Nothing happened today, mostly because the crabbers on the pier were cool. They aren't always cool. It's probably good that I wasn't crabbing from the pier because I'm kind of a petty and vindictive. In a world in which loitering with your boat near someone else's crab pots can get you thought of as a pirate, diving near someone's net for crab could easily be misinterpreted.

Far more reds than Dungeness caught this weekend on the pier and in the bay. Except for one guy there were only a couple of Dungeness landed. The one guy caught 12 nice ones in three pots from the pier. The one fisherman I spoke with that had pots in the outer bay said that he had mostly female Dungeness in his pots. He declared crabbing "over", but I think that there may be a few keepers left out there.