homemade collapsible traps - Blue Crab Forum "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, a crab in one hand, a beer in the other, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW--What a Ride!"
Painting your traps? - Blue Crab Forum At a bait store, I ran into a tip for dulling your shiny new galvanized traps (If you worry about the crabs being bothered by the glare) Brush your traps with muriatic acid This is the masonry acid for cleaning brick, etc It turns the traps dull black and won't flake and rub off like paint rinse with lots of fresh water afterwards
Rope for crab traps - Page 2 - Blue Crab Forum Just bought some 550 parachute cord off of fleabay to rig my new traps 1200' for 35$ Well I guess I will see hiow it works i"d like to see your hands after a day of pulling those with out gloves i like using #4 locktite and restring the doors with parachute cord
What String for Traps - Blue Crab Forum I have the traps and got the noodle pvc floats going I am struggling with the type and length of string to use I plan to crab in Bohemia river area through the fall I saw 3 8" nylon string at home depot, but after buying enough for my 30 traps @ 39 foot (30*16* 39=$187) That is a lot more then I budgeted for string
Confusion on VA regs - # of traps. . . - Blue Crab currently the state code, (not the vmrc site) does not see any difference betwen, pots and traps you may have 2 pots or traps per person without any license, you can buy a 5 pot license (cant touch them on sunday) no license is required to handline dipnet i hope this helps theres a guy here named tom powers he is really up on the va regs
Help Restringing Traps - Blue Crab Forum For ten traps, I would need two hundred feet of a sinking line, don't want the excess floating on the surface near your prop If I am crabbing in ten ft of water, I have marks on my lines that allow me to let out twelve ft of line (these marks were made with the trap doors open), with the rest wrapped around the pipe in figure eights and half
rigging pyramid star traps - Blue Crab Forum These traps should work OK for you get you started The price was right Easy to throw if crabbing from a bank or anchored With a little wrist flip (and practice) just before the trap hits the water it will land flat or slightly tipped toward you so it opens correctly In time you should be able to get a trap out about 20-30 feet open right
How to build a folding crab trap - Blue Crab Forum Very interesting Thanks for sharing I have a question re mesh size You appear to be using larger mesh (~4" wide) than is typical for crab traps I have been thinking about making a 30x30x30" commercial trap (i e , "crab pot" in NJ) using larger mesh to hopefully allow undersized crabs and small fish to escape
Re-stringing Restoring Topless Crab Traps - Blue Crab Forum I'm looking to replace the white string that attaches to the 4 doors on my topless crab traps Some of them are starting to fray in the loop where you attach the main rope I've been trying to figure out what brand, type and size that is best to use I've seen twine similar to the size I'm looking for but the package stats non-weight bearing
Whelk snails in crab traps - Blue Crab I have also caught them in crab traps by Daytona Florida They are used in place of conch for fritters in Florida They are good to eat and are used in scungelli salad I would cook and dice them to be used in sphaghetti sauce Here's a picture of a big one I caught in a Lobster trap They are fairly cheap here in PA