A friend and I hit Luhr's Landing around 2:00 pm to do some crabbing in the sun. This was my first time ever crabbing Area 13 although I live in Tumwater (borders Olympia to the south). I used chum salmon and surf perch remains for bait.

The water was very choppy and sloppy upon our arrival. Deceptively so. In fact, a good-sized duck boat occupied by four people and two dogs capsized near the mouth of the Nisqually before we got there. Everybody was rescued unharmed by another boater, but much gear was lost. I took it as a good reminder that even the South Sound will bury you if it's in the mood.

I figured we probably wouldn't be able to make it out in my 15-foot skiff. We waited though, and by 3:00 the whitecaps had virtually vanished. We puttered out to Anderson Island. By the time we got back to the launch around 4:30, it was like a mill pond in any water deeper than 10-feet. The Sound, like the ocean, can sure humble us all.

At any rate, I got a limit of red rocks, but no dungies of any size in either of my pots. Pots were at approximately 70 and 100 feet deep, off the south end of Anderson Island. We jigged for flounder while they were down with no luck. I usually don't keep red rocks, but I did this time. Cracked their claws and ate with garlic butter, and painstaking cleaned out the rest of them and made nine medium-sized crabcakes. They tasted pretty good, but were a lot of work!

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