Crab, Kiki, and Garbage Day
February 9th and 10th (Sunday and Monday) A beautiful sunny morning at the marina. Over these two days we were mainly at home working on projects. Because we were at home, we had put out our round crab trap off of the dock, and used the heads from the fish that we had caught the other day as bait. We hung out one head at a time, from the top, in the middle of the trap, so that the crabs were attracted into the trap, but also so that it was not so simple for them to eat the bait. This way the bait lasted longer, and we could set the trap and check it more frequently. Because the crabs were able to get out of the round trap, we tried to check the trap every hour or so. Over the two days, the variety in our catches was amazing. Sometimes we had up to 15 crabs in the trap with all of them being female, other times there were no crabs in the trap, and sometimes we got lucky. In the two days we managed to catch five, good-sized male Dungeness, one of which was a...