New Danielson folding crab trap review

So I went crabbing in the Puget sound last week, lots of fun.  I had an older Danielson crab trap, another cheap folding crab trap, and I bought one of the new Danielson Jumbo Pacific folding traps from Sportmans, which is blue and has larger doors.
The new trap didn't work.
I left the traps overnight.  My old trap had 15 crabs, 3 keepers.  The new trap had.... nothing.  During the day I tried 4 other traps with good success, all had a variety of crab.  New Danielson had... NOTHING!  I'm not sure why its so bad.  Maybe the large doors allow for crabs to exit the trap.  I threw it in the garbage, glad it only cost $25.  Beware!
Crabbing in the Puget sound is pretty awesome though

I heard something about attaching some zinc to crab and shrimp pots to help out with chemically induced charges. Maybe that is the problem?

When I started crabbing, a buddy of mine told me to add some lead pencil weight to the doors.  It will keep the current from opening them up enough for the crabs to get under them.

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When I started crabbing, a buddy of mine told me to add some lead pencil weight to the doors.  It will keep the current from opening them up enough for the crabs to get under them.

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I heard something about attaching some zinc to crab and shrimp pots to help out with chemically induced charges. Maybe that is the problem?

Great suggestions, maybe I threw it away too early

It's blue, that is your problem. 

My dad had an old Danielson folding trap years ago along with several black ones.  We never ever got crab in the blue on, ever!

He gave it to me, and I promptly gave it to a feller at work that didn't want to pay for a crab trap.  He never caught a damn thing in it either. 

Years later another company came out with the 360 crab pots that have spring steel mesh all the way around the unit for crabs to enter but not escape.  They were blue and although I was reluctant on their ability to attract crab due to color, I was intrigued in the design and bought two anyways.  Nope!  No crab, even when set in line with other black traps.  So, I painted them black. 

BINGO! 

They now keep up with the other black traps I own.

Clean your trap with straight Simple Green, rinse well, and let dry.  Wipe down with Acetone and let dry. 
Spray it black with several thin coats of Krylon Fusion for plastic.  It bonds really well to the coating that Danielson dips their pots in.

Oh and yes, wrap pencil led around the cage trap doors to weight them against the currents.  Or you can drill out a set of 2-3 oz egg weights and slip these up the lower pins of the doors and crimp and/or GOOP in place. Works the same.

Get rid of that blue color pronto!

I just replaced my old pots with two of the regular size versions of that newer style pot.  When rigging them up, I noticed some issues with the doors that I worked on before using.
1) The bent wire hinge of the door was crimped TIGHT and the doors stayed open wherever I put them.  I bent the wire door hinges more open so the doors could free swing
2) I then noticed the doors felt lighter than the previous version and they hung open almost a full inch on their own.  I cable tied a few ounces of pencil lead to each door and they then hung shut.

I caught crab in them both just fine (well, all females and undersized)