HMB Crabs

got out late (noonish) nand dropped 6 promar tr-102 traps and 3 hoops. 3 of us worked the gear with only short soaks in between pulls and managed 15 dungies before the wind got the better of us and we called it a day. there seemed to be alot of dungie around and few rock. lots of undersize dungie in our gear. the pots were filling fast and the nets even quicker. what really surprised me was that half of em were commercial plus size. dropped all our gear btwn marker 30 and 40 about 75 to 100yrds off the southern breakwater. if the wind hadnt blown us off the water it would have been limits.

Sharky right on bro. Wanted to go with you guys today but had to work. WTG with the dungies.

WTG on the dungies sharky.

Jedmo

Sharky! Whats up? A good report. WTG on the crustaceans. Halibut soon? I can't wait. Craig

Good job Sharky!  Thanks for the report.

how deep were you? 

WTG on the bugs! Thats the best crab report of the year, got to get rid of last year RF carcasses soon.

Great work man. I gotta get out there soon.

peterb
the area i described was about 30 ft. something i didnt post was that the hot bait was 3 yr old tuna bellies.My ex tried to get me to throw them out almost 2 yr ago, and i just buried them deeper in the freezer. now im glad i did...........

Great job.  I also discovered something similiar several years ago when I used old albacore meat for bait.  It is the best crab bait you can use.  It was like a magnet to the crab.  It must be the oily meat of the tuna.

Congrats on the large crabs. Thanks for the report. Next time, I'll know where to drop them traps.

They say shad are supposed to be one of the best because they are oily. I'm sure the albicore are the same. Nice to hear there are a few bugs out there....

did someone say shad? as crab bait?  did you hear that ariel, even better reason for us to chase those buggers

peterb
the area i described was about 30 ft. something i didnt post was that the hot bait was 3 yr old tuna bellies.My ex tried to get me to throw them out almost 2 yr ago, and i just buried them deeper in the freezer. now im glad i did...........

30 FOW, thats very close to the outer jetty.   thanks for the report!

did someone say shad? as crab bait?  did you hear that ariel, even better reason for us to chase those buggers

Dude I down to fish those big fat shad on the American river.