crab float

How are you guys rigging your crab float/buoy? Pics would be ideal

The way i did it just doesn't seem right...

Also, what a good rope to get, something I can find at home Depot or something, any suggestions?


Thanks in anvance

the big fat pool noodles work fine. I use 100' of the hollow (yellow) ploy line at HD. The stuff that floats. If I am fishing in shallow water (like 30') I just double the line so there isn't a ball of it on the surface

so are you just pulling the line through the flat and butting and knot and thats it?

so are you just pulling the line through the flat and butting and knot and thats it?

yeah...about as low tech as you can get. make the floats bigger then you think...they seem to disappear on the water for a distance (sitting so low to the water doesn't help)

I use the standard float and rope which you can purchase at OPS. I think they work the best and pretty much the standard for SCAL bug hunting. You may save a few bucks making your own, but like kayak carts made out of PVC...

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,21397.15.html

i use a yellow float with poly rope through it doubled loop, that way you have a handle to grab as you paddle by, for the rope i use 60ft of nylon rope and for the first 30 feet i put 6oz egg weights every ten feet from the top so rope sinks and stays out of props, cameron

Nice... how are you attaching the weights?

I've only crabbed once, but I stumbled onto something that seems to work pretty well...

If you take a footlong piece of 1/2" PVC and shove it thru a similar length of regular pool noodle, you have your rope attachment, plus it's stiff enough to wind up your slack line with quickly 1-handed.

Shorter lengths, floats, and bouys are more awkward to handle, for me, anyway...

Wherever I have looked, those crab floats were around 10$ a piece and I didn't want to spend 30-40 bucks on floats.  I tried pool noodle, but didn't have the 4" stuff, so it didn't stand out very much, and was weak.  I came up with my own design using 2-Liter soda bottles, or Gatoraid bottles and painting them.  Cost me about 10$ in paint, and about a dollar a float on hardware using eye bolts, washers, and nuts.  Adding more washers balanced the bottles to stand directly upright, and using the safty orange paint made them stand out really well on the water. 

keep beach combing I bet after a big storm they are a few that may wash up on shore

half gallon milk jugs....and if you're crabbing at night, stick a glow stick in there

oh porky....I suggest drinking the contents first