flat sandwich castable crab trap?

So I'm at Sports Authority I saw this castable crab trap, looks like a sandwich with a spike in the middle to put your bait on.  anyone ever try these?  i can see that it would be real easy for a furbag to steal squid right off that spike...

They call them Crabhawks. They are great if you use them like rings. You have to check them often.

Victor,

Is this what your referring too?

Never used or saw one before.

Antonio

http://www.crabhawk.com/

Yes thats it, I believe though recently somebody said that there needs to be an escape ring on it per DFG.

Insayn was dropping 3 of these prefishing at GS6 last week. He did pretty good.

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yup that's the one I saw, about 25.00...looks like is would be a tough surf cast, and how would you weight it?

Not legal in Ca.  http://californiaoutdoors.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/crab-hawk-traps-2/

Not legal in Ca.  http://californiaoutdoors.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/crab-hawk-traps-2/

Oops!   

I didn't even look at the regs for what is legal for crabbing.  Good thing I wasn't checked. 

Being required to have escape rings on an open trap is silly.  What purpose would they provide?
The trap isn't much of a trap, but more of a snare.  All you need is one leg to get caught in the net when pulling it back up. 

As far as weight, I zip tied one 6oz duck decoy weight to each one. Makes them drop quicker, and hold closed better when retrieving.