First Crabbing trip this Fall

We absolutely destroyed the crabs! I bought 2 more pots for a total of 6 for possible quicker limits. We’ve had to reset 4 pots to get our limits at times. Well, not yesterday

After we set our pots we spot lock near our pots to watch for thieves and we use castable crab traps and a ring to catch keeper crabs whilst we wait.

We caught 4 and we were moving around wondering if there were crabs around. After a couple of blanks near 2 of my pots we decided to check them in case they needed to be moved elsewhere.

1st pot had 17 keepers, 2nd pot had 15 keepers. We were ecstatic! They had only been soaking 45 min. We normally set a timer for 75 min after we finish dropping everything.

We went ahead and checked all the pots. Every one was loaded with crabs.

We spent 30 minutes picking all the biggest and cleanest crab and threw at least 30 keeper size crabs overboard.

We kept a 4 man limit of 48 beautiful Dungeness crabs.

I boiled mine up when I got home and had a great dinner. My buddy comes for fun and doesn’t eat crab so I went home with 24. I’ll be picking crabs today and making crab cakes tomorrow.