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Topic: Dummies Guide to Crabbing  (Read 76946 times)

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Downloaded 5 years after being posted. Thank you for your contribution of knowledge.


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Cool, thanks, bought all the gear... have yet to drop.


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Years after posting and still helpful. Looking forward to trying crabbing out, thanks!


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Oh nice, thanks for bumping the thread michael1one otherwise I would have missed this one.  Definitely a lot of useful information here which I've been looking in way too many places for... thanks 


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Glad it helped.... maybe one of these days, i will update it... :smt003
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thanks for sharing! :smt006


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Some of that would’ve helped me today . It’s all educational for me . Thank you


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Excellent guide!  Many thanks.


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I have a crabbing question for you guys.  I too read this crabbing guide (thank you, author!) and if I recall correctly, it advocates using the plastic, screw-top bait jars instead of a bait cage or a mesh bag.  I get how a plastic bait jar works with traps. The crab smells the bait, crawls into the trap and can't get out.

But with hoops, the crab crawls into the hoop, tries to get a meal from the bait jar for 5 minutes, then gives up because, unlike a bait cage or mesh bag, the holes on a bait jar are too small for the crab to do anything but smell the bait.  And the hoops don't prevent the crab from crawling out.

If the crabs are sitting there for 20, 30 minutes eating what it can pull out of a bait cage, you are more likely to catch them when you finally pull your hoops, or so the theory goes.

Am I giving crabs too much credit for intelligence?


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I ALWAYS used jars and either cage or bag. Chopped squid and oily small baits go in the jars. On my kayak I take carcass hunks, chopped chicken chunks and bigger herring or sardines and put them in the bag. The jar gets placed Inside the bag to simplify things and a single brass clasp hoops the whole rig onto the center of my hoops and cones. I prep all the baits in advance and then just clip them in on the drop.

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Great post. Thanks for the PDF. Impressive!
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Watching too many seasons of Deadliest catch, they early on would say that they always have bait that attracts the crabs, and bait for them to sit and eat/fight over.  I think the latter is the more essential, having something that makes them stick to the bait and try and get it, but adding scent will draw them in from farther away.  So I'm doing both these days, and seems to be working well for me.
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Was just thinking about going crabbing for Stone crab. It’ll definitely come in handy. Thanks.


 

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