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raydawg Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 11551 pacific northwest Gender:	Look out crabs..... 07/02/15 at 22:14:44 Some of you will pinch your last tomorrow
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stinger Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 848	Re: Look out crabs..... Reply #1 - 07/03/15 at 03:12:47 Wow! That is a very nice boat! Just the right size! If it's yours, I'm jealous!
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raydawg Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 11551 pacific northwest Gender:	Re: Look out crabs..... Reply #2 - 07/03/15 at 06:56:02 Yes, its mine..... It is an old, 1959 Glasspar Seafair I rescued from distinction I am slowly bringing her back to life, but I'll never get her back to her former glory days, but many far more talented than I do. The line has a dedicated bunch putting much effort into them.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Look out crabs..... Reply #3 - 07/03/15 at 07:18:22 Nice,.. I like it... (rivers here, only last about 15 minutes)... ... Looks like it will hold plenty of beer......
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Re: Look out crabs.....
Reply #4 - 07/04/15 at 07:40:05

Serowbot wrote on 07/03/15 at 07:18:22:

Nice,.. I like it... (rivers here, only last about 15 minutes)... Undecided

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Looks like it will hold plenty of beer... Huh

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It has a porta potti

I need a sign Angry

We loaded up, my wife, BNL, and myself, 5 traps, and plenty of anticipation of dungeness crab dripping with butter.

Got them baited and dropped in.

Checked back after a short soak, nothing Angry

Kept checking the same two, nothing....

Well, long story short. I bought a couple new traps, they came yesterday and I rigged them up.
Uh, I never removed the small rubber band that holds the trap door the crabs walk into the trap, when shipped, CLOSED

Geez, I can't make this stuff up....... Embarrassed

I was planning on installing the belt sweetheart Dave sent me, but am having seconds thoughts, I might choke myself with the belt somehow Sad

PS: We did manage to scratch out 1 lone boy keeper my wife and I shared with our dinner. We did get a fair amount of females, but we can not keep them. You have to release them.

Not sure why the females readily enter the traps and the males don't, but a discerning mind could prolly offer a few good answers if we think of their landlocked sisters and how they readily take the bait in a bar Cool

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Look out crabs..... Reply #5 - 07/04/15 at 08:20:15 maybe if you endow the cage with some burnt rubber, empty beer bottles and such maybe you'll get more males.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Look out crabs..... Reply #6 - 07/04/15 at 08:36:02 ... and bacon... don't forget bacon... ...
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Look out crabs..... Reply #7 - 07/04/15 at 11:00:02 I can attest from experience bacon work well for crawdads, maybe crabs too
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Re: Look out crabs.....
Reply #8 - 07/05/15 at 07:37:34

I've caught many a crawdad with bacon on a string too, love em'

Yep, crab don't seem to picky. After the salmon season opens I use the heads and carcase, that I think too them is like a banana split with lots of whipped cream.....they almost climb into your boat to get it Roll Eyes

I like to zip tie a turkey leg to the cage, hanging it upside down inside the cage. It works good and they can't shred it so fast, so one leg last a while.

Course in my day I could shed a pair of legs in no time.....but then again I could walk up a flight of stairs without have to stop at every landing to rest Undecided

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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: Look out crabs..... Reply #9 - 07/05/15 at 16:53:39 Hold the hell on!!!!!! Who the heck wastes BACON on crustaceans ???? EAT THE BACON!!! Ok I'm done.....
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Look out crabs..... Reply #10 - 07/06/15 at 09:45:43 Old Rider there's bacon, and bacon one kind is nice thick slices running with juicy goodness you can actually get a crisp on the other is that paper thin crap that goes from undesrcooked to burned faster than you can get it outta the pan THAT crap goes to the crustaceans
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