Kayak Crabbing in Late September 2020

[moc]

Well, with this strange COVID year, I have not done as much kayak fishing in a variety of farther locations as I normally would do and travel. I have been primarily crabbing for the month of September. I haver been catching a bushel of crabs on each of my outings. Many of the crabs are in the 6 inch range with a few over 7 inches to 8 inches. With the waters cooling, the crabs are moving to deeper water. In August they were in 2-5 feet of water, but at the end of September, they are in 5.5 to 8 feet of water for the best catches. As the crabs fatten up for the winter, they will continue to get heavier and move to deeper waters. By the end of October, for all intensive purposes for kayak crabbing and crabbing from the piers above the bay bridge and rivers just below the bay bridge will be over. You will need to move up river to muddy bottoms to try to entice the crabs that will burry themselves in the mud. You may have better luck by looking south to warmer waters to catch crabs. Go deep also. My plan is normally to stop crabbing by Nov 1st. But this year I will travel 90 mins to 2 hrs south to see if I can continue to catch them up to Thanksgiving.

[Slackdaddy]

Thanks for the info.
My wife crabs from her kayak (box traps) as I fish withing shouting distance.
She has always gravitated to the 4-5' depth, I will shoo her out to the 6-10' area this Friday.