Anchor Point
Participating Member
- City
- Fortuna
- State
- California
Crab fishing has been great out of Humboldt Bay this year between weather windows. I’ve been fishing off of my buddies boat which makes cleaning my boat easy. I learn something every time I go fishing. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve learned to make sure your pfd inflator isn’t hooked on the 80 pound crab pot you’re throwing overboard and make sure you mark the length of rope on your pots. One of my pots had 150’ of rope instead of 180’. When you’re fishing 120’ of water with a 2 knot current and 6-8’ swell, your float only occasionally makes it to the surface. We retrieved 7 of our 8 pots, but are still trying to find the last one. We have It marked on plotter and have spotted it a few times but just can’t seem to be close enough to it when the floats surface.