Blue Crab Forum - Hard Crabbing Know-How - making crab traps I came accross several rolls of plastic coated crab pot wire mesh and started making some crab traps I don't have the pliars to make the stainless steel wire loops to connect the baitwell and sides so i have been using plastic zip ties
Blue Crab Forum - Hard Crabbing Know-How - I want to build traps We have used the ring traps off the side of the pier With very good success I was wanting to set out a couple traps and then run them every couple days Most traps I find in stores are 30-50 bucks They are set up with the escape rings and bait box and everything to be legal here in florida I like to make things myself when it makes sense to
Re-stringing Restoring Topless Crab Traps - Blue Crab Forum Hello, 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
Catch Stone crabs using wire Blue Crab traps So one day I tried to catch Stone Crabs using wire Blue Crab traps- and I actually find the wire style of trap catch better with Stone crabs Stone claws are so expensive this is the only way to do it I made a video to show how I did it Feel free to give it a watch! Over 100 blue crabbing videos can be found on Jimmies and Sooks as well
Blue Crab Forum - Hard Crabbing Know-How - Rope for crab traps I figure it's about time we start getting some posts started about actual crabbing stuff Started straitening aluminum wire tonight to replace some traps I've lost and the stack someone stole late last year out of my boat All my life I've been using c
Blue Crab Forum - Hard Crabbing Know-How - Help Restringing Traps I'm new to crabbing with traps and need some help I acquired a dozen traps quite a number of years ago and after sitting in my garage all those years it seems that mice enjoyed feeding off the strings leaving me with just the metal traps