Crabbing Soon...

Anybody want to go crabbing out of HMB one of these days? Maybe Sunday? Also, how much does a good crab pot (small enough for a kayak but big enough for a lot crabs) run?
 I have one that has the doors that open up when it hits the bottom, but the doors don't always open. I want something better...

Storm surf is showing a near 20 foot swell for HMB Sunday.

Storm surf is showing a near 20 foot swell for HMB Sunday.

Where did you get that spiffy graph.

It is from StormSurf. Here is the link to the site

http://www.stormsurf.com/cgi-bin/4cast.cgi?ID=enp.46012

That is the HMB bouy forecast.

Anybody want to go crabbing out of HMB one of these days? Maybe Sunday? Also, how much does a good crab pot (small enough for a kayak but big enough for a lot crabs) run?
 I have one that has the doors that open up when it hits the bottom, but the doors don't always open. I want something better...

I have a couple if collapsible boxes and old hoops that both seem to work well.  I also have a couple that attach to a fishing rod.  I've never used them but I’ll gonna try.

I wonder if I'd get in trouble if I was fishing for rockfish and crabbing with a trap on a pole.


Oh, but not this weekend!

What?  you're not gonna go out in 20 ft swell?

Whimp...

MolBasser

Hey Mol I will let you use my traps and you can go out without your wetsuit. Split the catch 50/50  

Storm surf is showing a near 20 foot swell for HMB Sunday.

Crap...oh well. I'm tempted to go out and buy a small commercial grade pot. The one I have now has the trap doors that open when you drop it and close when you pull up, but they don't always open. I was crabbing shallow water once, and could see crabs crawling all over it - they couldn't get in because the damn doors hadn't opened.

Anyway, 20 feet sounds a little sketchy.