So just last year I read that WDFW had discovered that crab molt in different parts of the sound @ different times, and the seasons were now adjusted to match the hard shell test.

This was not true? Made sense to me.

I am trusting, maybe too much, of the State WDFW, but the crabbing and clamming thing is where I start to sound like one of the older gentlemen I ride the ferry with each day. Bitter about having to have a license at all, and having to look in a book to figure out when to crab.

So now we just do like we did back in the day , test the crab shell ourselves and throw back the ones that don't pass. Sound good to me but the contradictions don't build trust. Especially when it goes back and forth from one year to the next.