The recreational Dungeness season just opened and prospects look pretty good in some areas.

If one word could describe fishing opportunity for the long weekend here, it would probably be "diversity".

"Nothing's really hot right now," said Mike Chamberlain at Ted's Sport Center in Lynnwood, "but there are probably as many things to try as you're likely to see at any specific time during the year."

Crabbing is one. The recreational Dungeness crab season opened for the summer in most of Puget Sound on Wednesday, due to run through the Labor Day weekend, and crab manager Steve Burton at the Mill Creek office of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife was upbeat about the prospects in marine areas 8-1 and 8-2.

"It looks a lot better than last year at this time," Burton said. "The tribes fished a little later than usual because of some spotty soft-shell conditions, but they said abundance was very good and they... Continued@URL...http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080703/SPORTS/17686026/1031/LIVING08

Crabbing sucked...we only got one today, and one subleagal female....that sucks...really bad fishing, tribes were searching this year also before us..c