John H. Wrote in message:
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 20:28:13 -0500, Alex wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:25:16 -0500, Alex wrote: John H. wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:00:26 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: John H. wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 19:08:32 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: John H. wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 17:54:09 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Heading off to Half Moon Bay for the recreational crab opener in a short time. Big party as well as able to start fishing for Dungeness crab at midnight tonight. Some go out and drop pots then. I wait till morning. Probably a 3 hour pot soak will fill the 10 crab per person limit. Hope you had good luck! Bad luck. Came home with donated crabs. We have had a problem the last few years with pot poachers. Dropped 4 pots came back in a couple hours to no pots. About a $500 loss. They may show up as the poachers will take the crabs and then the pots get dropped a ways distant. I suppose you need to carry a shotgun and anchor over the crab pots any more. They have put new rules in place about pulling another+AJI-s pots. Makes it a penalty via law. Before, since sport crabs can not be sold, they were considered valueless, so there was no theft. Commercial crab pots get you jail or big fine. Doubt the shotgun, but maybe 8oz sinkers flying through the air. Sinkers can work wonders! Until you use one on a guy with a 9mm willing to send some lead your way. ... or a .308Or a .50.Ah, I knew I needed a .50 for something. Now if I can just convince my wife!

Tell her it's a post hole digger.
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On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 10:48:08 -0500 (EST), Justan Ohlphart wrote:

John H. Wrote in message:
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 20:28:13 -0500, Alex wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:25:16 -0500, Alex wrote: John H. wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:00:26 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: John H. wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 19:08:32 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: John H. wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 17:54:09 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Heading off to Half Moon Bay for the recreational crab opener in a short time. Big party as well as able to start fishing for Dungeness crab at midnight tonight. Some go out and drop pots then. I wait till morning. Probably a 3 hour pot soak will fill the 10 crab per person limit. Hope you had good luck! Bad luck. Came home with donated crabs. We have had a problem
the last few years with pot poachers. Dropped 4 pots came back in a couple hours to no pots. About a $500 loss. They may show up as the poachers will take the crabs and then the pots get dropped a ways distant. I suppose you need to carry a shotgun and anchor over the crab pots any more. They have put new rules in place about pulling another?s pots. Makes it a penalty via law. Before, since sport crabs can not be sold, they were considered valueless, so there was no theft. Commercial crab pots get you jail or big fine. Doubt the shotgun, but maybe 8oz sinkers flying through the air. Sinkers can work wonders! Until you use one on a guy with a 9mm willing to send some lead your way. ... or a .308Or a .50.Ah, I knew I needed a .50 for something. Now if I can just convince my wife!

Tell her it's a post hole digger.

LOL!