Saturday Morning Crabbin'

Kandi and I gave the South Sound a try for crabbing. Got up at 5 a.m. and headed to Zittles marina. Surprisingly, the ramp wasn't too busy. The new ramp fee also caught us by surprise. We only brought 10 bucks which was the usual rate. Kandi had to go ask for money from folks around the ramp.

It was a beautiful morning on the Sound. We could see Mt. Rainier and the Olympics really well. We headed towards the Nisqually reach and dropped our pot at around 50 ft of water. It was slack tide and the crabbing was good. The shad were working great. Then it slowed down once the tide started to move back in.

We almost lost a pot from the debris from seaweeds and kelp. It held the line down from one of our pots and submerged our buoy. Luckily, it popped back up after a few mintues of searching. I'm glad we didn't give up, otherwise it would have been a costly lost.