Monday, July 18, 2011

Our First Attempt at Crabbing!

After seeing that gigantic dungeness crab today, we decided to try our hands at crabbing.....

"Killer"

As usual, we had the proper accompaniments, wine and rotisserie chicken scraps, the latter for the crab traps.




We set out one crab-pot and one crab-ring, one tied to the anchor chain and the other to a stantion.






After an hour, we checked the latter one, and caught...


GOLIATH!

He, and he is a HE, is a Rock Crab.  He put up a good fight, scratching me and trying to pinch Paul, but in the end, Paul prevailed!


We ended up tossing Goliath back into the water, by regulation he was too small.  It was getting cold so we got into the zodiac to paddle back to the dock.



We turned back to look at the boat, and caught this beautiful sunset moment:



We will check the pots again tomorrow!

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