Kayak-specific crab pots....

Check em out:

http://www.mckayshrimpandcrabgear.com/kayakcrabber.html

I might have to check those out, one of the things I have been trying do is find a smaller pot instead of trying to use rings.

I posted on NCKA. Nice find.

Z

So does it fold up really small or is it full sized at 12x12x4?  Is that big enough?

I've been using the Danielson folding traps and pvc rack ChuckE style. Those have been doing just GREAT!  (Bi-mart has them for $15-$20 bucks)

As an alternative, I saw the sweetest crab rings in Pacific City. They were full-sized, but folded into a ring less than 1' across and a couple of inches tall. The "rings" looked like vinyl coated power cables (about an 1" in diameter) and it folded like a sunscreen for your windshield (twist and fold?). The guy who was selling them said the were made to stack at least 5 in a 5 gal bucket. I think they were about $40.

Carl: Do you prefer traps over rings? I'm new at northwest crabbing. I've only used "rings" that are 1/3 the size of these to catch blue crab in the south. (which are about 1/3 the size of northwest crabs) and you had to tend them more closely than traps. Same apply here?

We run the same Danielsons and use the ChuckE rack in back method as well.
 Works really fast with two boats, setting up and baiting em. 

Its a tad slower solo, but very effective nonetheless.

And thanks Boxofrain   I believe it was you that led me to Bi-Mart!

I also used Danielsons with great success. 

I used the ChuckE rack a few times, but others I would fold down one and tie it down over the bow hatch and the other I would keep unfolded and tie it down (or sometime just hold it with my toes).  Obviously I was working pretty close to shore in calm water.

I'm not sure how effective 12"x12" would be.  That would fit only a few large crab.

Half the size and twice the price? I wouldn't bother.

I do remember some cool looking folding traps posted on NCKA. Promars? Yeah, here at Cabelas for $14.95- http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0024601016855a.shtml

Half the size and twice the price? I wouldn't bother.

I do remember some cool looking folding traps posted on NCKA. Promars? Yeah, here at Cabelas for $14.95- http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0024601016855a.shtml

Those are good but the mesh is too small for crabbing. I bought a few and found out the hard way. I had to snip the netting to make it legal and if you want to go crabbing you need to add escape rings also which make it a piece of swiss cheese. They are now shrimp pots.

Z

Thanks Fishes, but.... twernt me that told ya about em. I had to pay $25.00 at my local Freddy's!
I like these traps alot. I throw em off the dock and leave em overnight quite often as well as off the Yak.
Tough as nails too, last year I had tossed em off the dock and the next morning when I went to check em, the Dredge had arrived in the river and tied to the dock right over them
 I pulled two, but the the Dredge had settled to the bottom at low tide and was sitting on the third.
After the tide came in and I fetched the trap out in one piece (luckily), I beat it back into shape with me hammer, baited her up and works fine.
 I think John Cameron Swazey woulda been proud, takes a licken and keeps on ticken.
 I'll buy the same when needed

I haven't tried em, I just thought I'd pass the info along.

I don't think they fold at all.  The bigger pots by the same company are called "No Escape", and I have heard several reports of them being the best trap-style pots made.  See:

http://www.mckayshrimpandcrabgear.com/noescapepot.html

I stumbled into this tutorial today and thought it was pretty good and might be useful.

http://www.coastsidefishingclub.com/?q=node/48




Alright, I guess I need to get something done now. 

Came across these at the Boat Show today ... http://www.jollygoodtrap.com/

A bit pricey, but may be handy on those camping trips.  They are lightwait and fold down flat.

Mmmmm ... crabs ... I just had to stop and pick one up for dinner at Uwajimaya on the way home.   

-Allen

Allen,
Are those legal to use, I don't see escape holes and I thought that they had to have a certain size to the netting.

Maybe the pic isn't so good or they are BC version with difference regs (I don't know the BC regs), but the ones I saw at the Boat Show certainly were legal with escape rings and 1.5" minimum mesh size.

-Allen