Well, saturday started with me taking my 2 man rubber raft out in the ocean to drop a crab pot. Was hoping to get some red rock crab. Left the pot in 15, maybe at most 20 feet of water at high tide. Then I went to the Wallace River.

Walked from the bridge up to the hatchery and back. Saw about 30 salmon under the bridge with 8 guys casting at them and not getting the slightest response. Up the river by the hatchery I saw one zombie king. Then a thunderstorm sat right on my head for 45 minutes. Walked back, everyone gone under bridge. Salmon still there. Gave it a whirl, same response. By the time I left I might as well have fallen in the river given how wet I was.

Day ended up not lost though. Stopped and played MarioKart 64 with my buddy to dodge some more thunderstorms. Then about 6pm, maybe 10 hour soak, put my rubber raft back in to get the pot. Pulled it up and .... wait a minute ... how to set a pot with crab on a damn rubber raft!? Apparently I hadn't thought that through very well. But I managed to get it sorted out. Apparently 15 feet is too deep. 8 Dungeness females, 1 Dungeness male too small, 1 Dungeness male just squeaked by minimum size, and 1 red rock crab.

Next time I'll put the pot in 5 feet of water at low tide. That should evade the dumb dungeness femailes.

Long story short, still too early for Wallace, got 2 keeper crab, didn't drown.

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