Elaina Wood, 6, center, looks on in delight after catching a crab as her brother, Kjol Wood, 11, left, watches while grandmother Tina Taylor of Port Angeles, right, and Puget Sound Anglers member Russ Manson of Sequim assist with the capture during the Grab a Crab Derby on Saturday at the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival in Port Angeles. The three-day festival brought abut 15,000 people to the Port Angeles waterfront for food, music and other activities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Elaina Wood, 6, center, looks on in delight after catching a crab as her brother, Kjol Wood, 11, left, watches while grandmother Tina Taylor of Port Angeles, right, and Puget Sound Anglers member Russ Manson of Sequim assist with the capture during the Grab a Crab Derby on Saturday at the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival in Port Angeles. The three-day festival brought abut 15,000 people to the Port Angeles waterfront for food, music and other activities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Caught one!

Elaina Wood, 6, center, looks on in delight after catching a crab as her brother, Kjol Wood, 11, left, watches while grandmother Tina Taylor of Port Angeles, right, and Puget Sound Anglers member Russ Manson of Sequim assist with the capture during the Grab a Crab Derby on Saturday at the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival in Port Angeles.

The three-day festival brought about 15,000 people to the Port Angeles waterfront for food, music and other activities.

Crowds pack the main dining tent on Saturday at the Dungeness Crab and Seafood festival near the Port Angeles waterfront. (There was plenty of crab to go around, said Scott Nagel, executive director of the festival. “It was crowded and wonderful,” he said. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Crowds pack the main dining tent on Saturday at the Dungeness Crab and Seafood festival near the Port Angeles waterfront. (There was plenty of crab to go around, said Scott Nagel, executive director of the festival. “It was crowded and wonderful,” he said. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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