Crab trap floats, lines and harnesses upgraded.

Ive been working on improving my crabbng gear and this is what ive come up with. My harnesses have swivel eyes where my line clips in and quick release brass clips for quick setting up to the traps. Line is 100' polypropylene weighted 20' down from the top. Floats are pvc with a poole noodle. I put t-pieces on either side of the noodle so it would function better as spool. I intend to clip a few weights onto the bottom so the float will stand up and be more visible when I'm looking for it. I just thought I'd share seeing as you guys might actually be intetested. I'm open to criticism and suggestions. Here is pic

Ive been working on improving my crabbng gear and this is what ive come up with. My harnesses have swivel eyes where my line clips in and quick release brass clips for quick setting up to the traps. Line is 100' polypropylene weighted 20' down from the top. Floats are pvc with a poole noodle. I put t-pieces on either dise of the noodle so it would function better as spool. I intend to clip a few weights onto the bottom so the float will stand up and be more visible when I'm looking for it. I just thought I'd share seeing as you guys might actually be intetested. I'm open to criticism and suggestions. Here is pic

Yeah there is a set of floats that someone uses in HMB that stand up! May they are a piece of cake to see. I need to figure out how he has them set up.

I think they just need to be not too top heavy and weighted on the bottom

they looked like this. I just need to do a pool noodle version

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=230139

These are my old floats, they stand up too, but they're more bulky than my new ones and they don't work as spools but they're visible

I'm going to zip tie a balloon to the top of my new float

Ask Sunfish (I think that's his handle) he was the one with the float standing up with a flag on the opener.

Yeah there is a set of floats that someone uses in HMB that stand up! May they are a piece of cake to see. I need to figure out how he has them set up.

My floats stand up    I am using the Large sized Gatoraid bottles, painted with Rustolium spray paint in primer, then saftey orange.  I put a eye bolt through the cap, and add a bunch of washers on the inside (or outside) of the cap, compressed between the nuts on the eye bolt, and a bit of goop for good measure.  They are much easier to spot in the sea of floats out there, and were very cheap to make.

I wonder if a large red helium balloon over a float would work? You can buy helium cans from Toys R Us and use those big punching bag balloons...

Probably some law against it...


-Murf