bodega bay thurs 11/6

How about a picture Jack?

here are some pics

I ended up going Friday and slogging through the pea soup fog all morning.  I had lots of crab, half and half rock and dungie, but all the dungies were either way short or 1/4 to 1/8 " short.   

I only soaked them for 3 hours, as I had to get back home and was just off the mouth.  You for sure got picked.  I'll post a report.......

Nice pics, Jack.   

Thanks nice pics Jack do you have one of the weighted doors??

Someone who steals from a trap is the ultimate bottom feeder.  I saw an advertisement that sells time released buoys.  Works like this; if the water is 60 ft then you put the timer at 40ft with a hanging slack of 40 ft, when the timer goes off  it releases the rope along with a buoy to float  it to the top.  Has anyone out there tried this technique  yet? 
I went out of Trinidad last Monday.  It was rough so I dropped three pots in only 40 fow.  Next day I had three of the biggest, red starfish you've ever seen.  I tried to launch today but the big rollers waved me off.  I'll see how it looks tomorrow.

I crabbed in a PB Saturday.  We were down off 10 mile in 120 ft of water.  It had been a 3 day soak with hanging bait, mackeral and squid.  We pulled 12 pots for 36 crabs.  It was pretty slow considering the circumstances.  Lots of water pots and sea stars.  I think it is just going to be a slow year.
Dave

Before we hop on the You Was Robbed Bandwagon, we should keep in mind that there may be other reasons for no crab in the traps.  The report from the Bodega Bay area is that this may be a very slow year for crab, indeed.  There is a huge population of small crabs.   Small crabs that eat all your hanging bait and then skeedadle...

Just my $0.02.

For what it's worth, I spent the weekend at Bodega. The dungies are not there in the numbers typically found. The charter boats with many pots out where they normally harvest 6-8 per pull are getting nothing or one. The New Sea Angler averaged only one dungy per pot the past several days off Fort Ross etc. It is poor so far.