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Topic: These traps any good?  (Read 2543 times)

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Dray

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I've been using the cheap Danielsons folding crab trap for a long time now.  They work great and all, but I find them a bit cumbersome to put together out on the water so I'm planning to gradually replace them.  I found these at Cabela’s:



They look pretty slick.  They are 32” in diameter and 12” high and are supposed to easily collapse down to 1.5” high: that would make for easy stacking.  Anyone here use these?  I’m curious how durable they are.  They are a bit pricey at $50...
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I got one of em. It works pretty well. Definitely needs some added weight as its pretty light but other than that it seems like a solid trap.

Mine is about a year old and still working well.
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Lee

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I have one of those two, but honestly I think you're better off keeping your danielsons.  Set them up before you push off, bungee them down if you need to.  My super cool collapsible trap catches more starfish than crabs.