Crabbing

Austin bailed large volumes of water from the dinghy in preparation for dropping the crab trap in Alston Cove. Our expectations were high with the juicy remains of a nice red snapper for bait.

Crab legs

We were not disappointed by crabbing in Alston Cove.  Seven crab in ten hours. Three over nine inches across the shell. We dropped our trap in thirty feet of water about fifty feet from a rock strewn but grassy shore and 100 feet from our anchor at a plus ten tide which would drop about eight feet by morning.