soundkite
8/19/2014 8:44:00 AMThanks for the report. I have to laugh at all the crab conspiracies, though! I have the luxury of getting to crab right by my home and I've seen crabbers lose at least 5 pots in front of my house this past 6 weeks (all unweighted, all lost in the current). I've gone freediving and seen crabs crawling out of pots after the food is gone. I've seen stronger currents open the crab door and let the crabs stroll out, too. Sometimes your pot will settle on the bottom in a way which lets a door swing open easily, too. We are well into the 2nd month of crabbing and many of the heavily crabbed areas are slim pickins now, only females and soft shells left.
MotoBoat
8/19/2014 9:32:00 PMSoundkite, you have cemented my suspicions, concerning what might occur while a pot soaks. That might cause the person that dropped the pot, to conclude foul play or pot tampering occurred, after the pot is retrieved empty or nearly so or worse.........lost!
romanfishing
8/21/2014 7:39:00 AMI have seen how crab pots were drifting during strong current. Those pots were not mine, and I didn't touch them :)
I was watching them moving into deeper spots and finally going down.
I was watching them moving into deeper spots and finally going down.
Fishermom14
8/21/2014 1:20:00 PMIn the case of our pot, it did have a weight in in and we found it in the same place that we had left it in. We used GPS coordinates to place it and retrieve it. But, I could see where maybe the spot might have been crabbed out already, or crabs that might have walked in, walked back out again. The tuna can had definite pincher marks on it where they tried to get at the contents. Thanks for the comments.