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We went out in Humboldt bay, and out into the pacific this weekend to try to catch some more crabs. The seas were finally down to 6-8 ft between storms. We first dropped the pots in 65 feet and let them soak for a few hours, when we pulled them there were only a few keepers, mostly small females in the pots. We moved the pots a few hundred yards from the breakers in about 35 ft and got more big males, but not real good. We moved the pots out a few miles into 120ft, and back to the small females, so we put them back in 35 ft and left them overnight. In the morning the fog never lifted and the seas picked up to 10-12ft, but another storm was coming and I had to get the pots, so we followed the gps to the pots. They were now at the edge of the breakers, not where I wanted to be, so we kept the bow into the swells till the small sets arrived and shot in and grabbed a pot and shot back out and waited for another small set. We got all 4 pots and only had 3 crabs, all big males. it was when I went to head back in that I realised that I neglected to get a waypoint on the entrance and the visibility was only a few hundred feet in 10-12 ft swells. so I headed a few miles southwest and finally barely saw the end of the north jetty and we headed back in. we dropped the traps in the bay and since it was low tide we beached on the mudbar and dug horseneck clams, in 45 minutes we had 60 nice clams, and went back and got the pots, we ended up with 29 nice crabs and lots of clams. not bad for a fun weekend.

Dustin