My son and I put out the pots starting at 10:30am and pulled them up at about 1pm. At first, only one pot had crab it in. (We think the other pot was put in too shallow.) However, that pot had 3 good size hardshell males with one being about 8 inches. (All Dungeness, btw.)

We put both pots out farther and checked again at 3:30 and they were completely full. We caught 7 more good size males with most of them being larger than 7" with one being 7.75". (All Dungeness again.) We had to throw back a couple of legal-sized ones because, at that point, we hit the limit.

Overall, great day for crabbing. The crab are much larger now than when we went on the 4th of July weekend.

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