Large Weekend Swells....whats up with that?

how come each weekend the ocean rears its ugly head and during the week i am left to sit here at work looking at calm waters in carmel and monterey and pacifica?

i dont like this.

maybe if it calms down a bit by sunday it would be a good day for crabs.

anyone going ocean fishing this weekend?

buy a surfboard.   

Saturday and Sunday are STRONG days.  All other days are weakdays.

Plan "B" - there's always the foothill lakes  (Del Valle, Chabot......)

i was thinking of learning to surf my scupper pro just in case i needed to do so someday but i think i would get whomped this weekend.

i wonder if linda mar will be washed out this weekend. if so then no crabbing

Did someone say "Crabs"?

I caught 22 rock crabs 3 spider crabs and 1 leopard shark while hooping last night.

I want to try to go crabbing at bodega bay on Sunday but the swell is looking huge.

Hey Potto, how do those spider crabs taste and what part of those crabs do you eat?

Hi Chuck,
In fact I have caught a few of these spider crabs while diving but I stopped picking them up because they had no flesh to speak of in them. In fact after cracking a few legs and finding nothing worth eating, I had to discard the whole crab. I don't think they are the same species as the Alaskan King crab.
Alain

I agree with jmairy, buy a surfboard. 

then, get realllly into surfing and you are guarunteed NOT to have waves on the weekend.

Allen

Find a second hobby.  You can't go fishing every day.  What about weapons.  Firearms. Hunting.

I was catching so many RockCrabs I figured I will keep the Spiders and just mix the meat together.
Problem was the Spider have almost no meat.  Next time I'll throw them back.  My bad.

scallen, that's why I started fishing in the summer, .  surf was hard to beat today tho!

jmairey- yeah, I didn't start fishing really till I was 25.  Now I think about all that time i wasted when it was flat!

Allen

hopefully you were able to wedge a little work in during those flat spells!

it's the only hope a young surfer has to get ahead in life,  .

No, I mostly laid around with paraphernalia and listening to the Dead- wasted youth-I started pretty late on the work thing.  I didn't realize for proper balance in Life, I needed to FISH as much as possible!

Allen