CRABBING--Summer Season 2010

July 2nd, 2010--Yesterday was the opening day of the summer crab season in Region 10, Seattle to Bremerton. I set my crab pot off the breakwater at Shilshole Bay and got skunked 4 times. After setting it for the 5th time, the second in a new location, at 4:00PM, I left it overnight. I spent last night at the dock in Shilshole Marina. While there I opened Adobe Photoshop to collect images from 2008 & 2009 just to prove that I knew what I was doing when I began this blog.

This is NOT from 2008 or 2009! When I retrieved my pot at 10:00 this morning I had company. After throwing back two females, I still had 5 keeper males. All 5 were in excess of 6-1/2", with the largest measuring 7".

Whisper under genoa, sailing to Brownsville Marina for an SSYC overnight, prior to entering Liberty Bay to raft-up for their fireworks on Saturday, July 3rd.

While I had planned to lay-up in Port Madison to clean & cook what crab I had while waiting for slack water in Agate Pass, the wind is good enough that I will sail all of the way to Brownsville and do the crab deed there.

The crab deed is done.

I know, I know. When you think of Joe, it's just "Crab, crab, crab!"

The weekly crabbing days are Wednesday through Saturdays, so since the weather is predicted for the high 80's to low 90's, I plan to crab on Wednesday.

More to come?