First time crabbing, HMB Sat + Sun

First time crabbing this past weekend.  Sat was flat and sunny.  A great day.  I only had 2 hours and caught 1 keeper, about 10 shorts.

Met DaGup/Bill.  I'm attaching a pic of him and his first-ever crab.


Sunday had bigger swells.  Still a beautiful, sunny day.  Caught 10+ shorts, no keepers.  Met Red Snapper/Vicky.  We were talking about crab bites and she mentioned that one had gotten her good earlier in the morning.  I was only half-paying attention until she showed it to me.  F*k.  Got a pic of that too.

About the crabs, there were lots of shorts to the left just outside the breakwater in the 30-40 ft area. I'm going to try again later in deeper water.

Good luck, everyone.

Bernard

how the hell did the crabs do that? looks nasty. but you did better by eating them afterwards

good job getting out there. don't get discouraged you find your groove.

I believe once the crab hooked on to Vicky's finger she jerked real hard and got the ouchie

Thanks again to kayak james who hooked me up with a loaner pot and great hospitality back at base camp, letting me pig out on crab and the best smoked salmon ever. It was great to meet fishmonk and a handful of other great guys that really made my first crabbing day one of my best days out on the water ever. I look forward to more trips out with yakheads like myself. ...Peace.

Welcome aboard Bernard    We did quite well at the beach to the left of the jaw in 30-40 fow last Saturday.  The area closer to the jetty usually yields smaller Dungies and lots of Rockies.

Owww man that hurts to look at!!!

try rubbings its bellie next time.  It seems to work when I want them to let go of the trap, or anything else.