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Crab Trap Experiment - Doors vs Funnels
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- čas přidán 29. 03. 2013
- In different regions people have a tendency to use different methods to catch crabs. In the Chesapeake Bay area they use trot lines and wire open crab traps. Down here on the Gulf Coast we use hand lines, soft ring nets, and wired box crab traps (referred to as pots up north). The crab traps have funnel entrances that make it easier for the crabs to get in than to get out. On the west coast, they catch Dungeness crabs in traps that have doors that swing open when pushed from the outside, but do not swing out, trapping the crabs inside.
I've wondered if we always use the best method to catch crabs or just follow tradition. With this in mind, I decided to test traps with doors instead of funnels to see if they work for blue claw crabs. Six traps is the legal limit for recreational crabbers, so that is how many I used in my experiment. I had three traps with funnels purchased in Westwego, Louisiana. I made three with a similar design, but with doors instead of funnels. I slightly weighted the doors so they would close easier. I had used doors on a couple of single chamber shallow water traps and they had worked, but you don't catch as many crabs in the single chamber traps.
On March 16, 2013, I set the traps out in a salt water canal near my house. I rotated between door and funnel traps. I let the traps soak for a full seven days and ran them on March 23rd. The crabs weren't running, but I did catch four good sized crabs, all in the funnel traps. I let them soak for five more days and ran them again on March 28th. This time I caught nine in the funnel traps and one in a door trap. The funnel traps had at least one crab on all pulls. I decided that it was pretty evident that we use funnel traps to catch blue claw crabs not only because of tradition, but because they work better.
I changed one of the door traps to a funnel traps and ran them one more time on March 30th. I came away with seven more crabs, six in the funnel traps and one in a door trap. Now, all six of the traps I have out have funnels and not doors.
On an up note, all but three of the crabs that I caught were over 6 ½", with four of the over 7".
A door at the end of the funnel would probably be a lot better. Funnels give them a good idea where to enter. Cool experiment though, thanks for taking the time to record it.
Funnels for mud crab, Doors for rock crab, They both work equally as well depending on environment. At least you took the time to experiment, And you can now concentrate on catching crab. Great Work..
Thanks for your effort. You have done a service to crabbers everywhere by using real results to evaluate performance. Usually all we get is "I like this one." which tells us nothing. Newer ideas are not necessarily better. I was thinking I'd make a trap door pot before I saw your video (got some chicken wire in the shed and know a dock I can drop it off.) But now it will have funnels. Thanks again.
Thanks for putting this on video. I have a few traps I run in SE Texas when I can keep the crab trap thieves from stealing them. I have experimented with baits, from the cheap chicken wieners , chicken legs, and dead fish. The cheap chicken wieners worked fairly well but fish worked about as well.
Cheers! Good to know I bought the right pots!
Really quite interested in what goes on when we can't see those traps, learnt a bit!
Much thanks for the information - verified with actual experimnet.
60 years ago I crabbed off of piers with lines baited with chicken necks or tripe (cow gut). Pulling in the line and netting them took a little skill and a lot of patience. I would normally catch a full bushel in about four hours which I sold for $5. Big money for a 10 year old.
Uh huh? A bushel, one guy?, 4 hours? Fish story.
@@mikeoconnell4229 people pull bushels alone all the time, lmao.
that satisfies my curiousity, I was wondering why my door traps didn't catch a thing. Gonna convert it to a funnel type
I learned so much from you
thanks for this!
Craving has been a little slow this last weekend, but I did get 40 keepers over the four-day holiday.
Rule of thumb.
Bay's are better with funnel type because of tidal currents.
Ocean offshore? Both will work the same because there is less currents to open doors.
I've seen go pros with the crabs essentially giving up after not being able to get into the traps. They've caught but seems their greatest strength is also their weakness. Might keep them in..but only if they can get in at all.
how many mesh's are your funnels, and also what size mesh wire did you use for the funnels? Thank you
Not just edible, delicious.
Nice experiment & video! My first thought was that the crab would get hung up in the door's wire mesh. I like your door idea even if it's not as effective as funnels. But what if the door were made of transparent plexiglass?
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I've found that the absolute bait for crabs is chunks of blue fish because of how oily and bloody the meat is. U should try it if u can.
Where did you get the head strap camera to record? Only two traps allowed in NJ.
Betty Boop he is in Texas boi
So you m ow more than the waterman that’s been doing it all his life!!! Nice to know
you need funnel with 2 wires like Dungeness crabs pot crabs don't see mesh door with mesh pot they tired walking around and look for enter a door..
or ramp loaders with triggers
do u take care of your boat
Nice could you make a one where you place 5 traps they fill up quicker the traps your using are ok how about use 5
Is that mesh 1 1/2"...Where can I buy it? In Orlando, Florida, Home Depot doesn't sell it.
You're really not supposed to put the traps in the middle of a channel. Boat propellers may get stuck on the ropes from the traps. Should set them more off to the side.
what bait r u using n also does your traps have weights on bottom
I use chicken leg quarters or non-game fish for bait. I do not use weights on the bottom of the traps because I crab in shallow, relatively calm water. There were weights on the bottom of the trap doors.
I would take to door traps home and put funnels in them.
I did!
Toothed rock crab fishing
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flower pot top loaders
nice video good to know
Did I miss the part of the *weights* on the door traps??? You can run the funnel traps upside-down; you cannot do that with the door traps. There are tons of CZcams vids of door traps catching crabs no problem, but these all had weights on the bottom so the traps ends up the correct side up. I think the majority of your doors traps in this vid did not sit right on the bottom, so thus the poor catch #'s. I don't see this vid proving anything useful except that "user error" is to blame...
***** why do you have to be insulting at the end, pointing out the error was enough.
The doors all had weights in them and were not upside down in the water. Funnel traps will catch crabs if they are upside down, but not as well. The crabs try to escape by swimming up and end up in the second chamber. This makes it more difficult for them to escape.
Awful stingy on the bait, I never catch without bait. Anyone?......
@@utubeisbeast its crab eat crab world out there! Grow a pair!
where is the turtle escape holes?
Charlene Kamsch you are joking right?
that trap get you a nice fine in M.D. now a days , no turtle extruders .
stop using chicken... use fish heads if possible but catfish heads and backs is my favorite bait I use
But what about a trap with only one moving part... Check out the Floor Door Crab Trap on youtube.
try square funnels
Do you need to have a fishing license to catch crab
Can you convert doors to funnels?
Does a hobbie-horse have a wooden pecker?.
Better luck next time
use chicken.....
Try fish you’ll have more crabs in your trap. Chicken is last resort my man!!
Hmm.. looks like the crabs don't see the doors as a way in because they're closed, while the funnels are open..
Dumb Crabs..:)
The Go Pro videos for crabbing are the best. As a kid I always wanted to know what was going on down there. crabbingzone.com
Audio SUCKED bearly heard anything =(
Maybe you're in a bad spot
Your crab trap no good. Try to watch crab and fish trap made in the philippines its better than that