Make your own DIY CRAB TRAPS
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- čas přidán 7. 04. 2021
- Crab traps are expensive! Luckily, they're not hard to make. This video will show you how to make your own DIY Blue Crab traps for cheap. Once you get the hang of what you're doing, they don't take long to make. I made 15 traps in one day. I used coated hex wire (poultry wire) to make these. My materials list for 15 traps is below.
Each trap will take 10 feet of wire, three plastic escape rings, 1.5 feet of bungie cord, a few hog rings and a trap hook. Then it'll need to be rigged with a float that's clearly marked with an R for recreation. You can find details on trap requirements by visiting the Florida Wildlife commission website. Each person setting recreational crab traps in Florida will need a saltwater fishing license with the Blue Crab trap add on. You'll get a set of trap ID numbers that you'll mark your traps with. Be sure to check the current regs. I may have missed something and they're subject to change.
Coated Hex Wire - $125 - www.leefisherfishing.com/coll...
Escape Rings - $10 - www.leefisherfishing.com/coll...
Hog Rings - $3.25 - www.leefisherfishing.com/coll...
Trap Hooks - $5.50 - www.leefisherfishing.com/coll...
Bungie Cord - $52.50 www.leefisherfishing.com/prod...
Floats & Rope - $92.50 - www.leefisherfishing.com/coll...
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Great video. Moving to florida in a few months and I’m gonna have a dock, figured I’d make a few traps
Ok! Gonna try this here in Louisiana! Y'all have a beautiful family and a beautiful porch! Thanks!
Thanks for this. I am just trying to figure out the escape window that was absent from my purchased trap and this was very helpful.
Thanks for making this video. Appreciate the links.
You bet!
In the town I used to live in we had a company that made the various coated wire mesh used for traps. We were able to get really cheap or sometimes free wire mesh. We could even get cheap heavy mesh used for lobster traps. They are called Riverdale Mills and are the leader in wielded steel mesh wire in the US. We were able to get wire that didn't make quality. They have grown by about 3 to 5 times the size when I lived there. I insist that I buy US wire products as the overseas crap is junk.
Very nice informative video there Waterman ✌🏻
Nice! Thanks Clay!
You bet!
Good 👍 idea. I'm followed from 🇦🇪 UAE
Thanks and welcome
I love this. I was stationed in Maryland at Andrew’s AFB for five years and I couldn’t get enough MD blue crabs!
Yep, I've eaten a lot of Maryland blue crabs!
I was truly blessed. Realized in hindsight as usual. City raised in Dallas, Tx. when I was 12 and my next youngest brother was 11 we ended up staying with our great- uncle and his wife and toddler in a small gulf coast town that at the time (1980) we were blood related to maybe 80% of them (+/- of course) through our mother. (This IS the short version🤣)At the time we did not know and had never met any of these family members at all.
Our uncle, and most of the family at the time were crabbers by trade. And this IS the trap my uncle made, minus some steps. I remember being amazed at how quickly he actually did it! A lifetime of practice I'm sure. Sadly, after much excitement at participating in what this city-girl built up as a grand adventure...I was utterly destroyed my first day out to help pull traps. I was so unbelievably sea-sick it's almost beyond describing. 🤢 🤮 I was mortified, among other things. I beat myself up pretty bad over what I perceived to be a catastrophic design flaw in myself...afterall...no OTHER member of this HUGE family had this handicap! Yah, I trashed myself pretty good. Childhood minds. I did however put in some time trying to make /repair those traps. But school, and only living there 2 months, the situation all around...anyway. Me and that brother who shared this "adventure" recently agreed that those couple of months were without question one of the best times of our childhood. God Bless people who open their hearts and homes to children in need, family or not, for a day, a week, a month...(it MATTERS NOT HOW LONG..) any act of selfless kindness truly, truly makes a difference!
Enough of that 😁 Great video! 👍 Priceless knowledge!
Good stuff bud!!!
Appreciate it!
Very good 👍 information sir plus the links
Jesus it's crazy how much the prices have gone up in just a couple of months lol. Still worth it to make them myself
Yeah, everything is crazy with Covid 🤨
Great video ..
I am going to Northern Norway next year and was hoping to catch some king crab. Would this design work if you adjusted the sizes and could you make it with any kind of foldable material so we could take them with us.
Thanks I have been trying to figure out the degradable panel thing. I bought 2 traps that were supposed to be complainant with Florida law but they don't have the panel. And Fwc is vague about what works
Thanks
No problem
Very concise and well explained. I'm curious if you know how to make a minnow or crawfish/ similar style trap?
I know how to make one out of a 2 liter, but its so so at best. Helpful in a pinch, but hoping for something more substantial and reliable.
Google pillow trap for the best crawfish design.
@@clayhayeshunter Thank you, sir, will do.
But where do I get a Hoodie like that from. 🤔🤔🤔
How big is the inside diameter on the funnel? I’m shooting for blue and stone
yes i like to know how to do that
Hi. I am in the process of making an osage orange bow out of a hedge or osage orange post. I was wondering if you could make a video on CZcams on either making a bow out of a hedge post or decrowning an osage orange stave or making an English style longbow out of osage orange. Thank you for all the awesome videos.
It'd be the same as making one from a tree. Just follow a ring. If you need to decrown it for some reason, I'd suggest backing it with hickory or bamboo.
@@clayhayeshunter thank you
What are hog rings and what is that tool you used to attach them? Thanks.
Google it
There is cheap hog ring. Can usually attach around two a.m. when the bar is closing. That is when the big fat hogs are easiest to catch with ring. LOL
Do you need the 6 inch ball and a tag id on the trap if your fishing next to it?
That I don’t know, but I’d assume so unless you have it attached to your boat.
Hello Mr Hayes , this is not about crab traps. I'm an amateur Bowyer whos mentor was Ed Scott until his passing in 2015. I learned about you around a year ago and I have seen that your technique is a lot like Ed's. So I've chosen you as my new mentor. I just watched your 4 part video on making a rawhide backed long bow and would like to buy some rawhide to make that bow. Please tell me where I can get the rawhide , your help is much appreciated.
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Thanks very much. I'm currently watching Alone season 8 , you're looking good so far.
What size hog rings bud?
Mantapppp good
What are the dimensions of the funnel wire and the cut out size in the trap for the funnels? Thanks for helping me build a couple of traps.
in Italy in the last two years we have been invaded by these blue crabs. each person with just 40 cages takes at least a quintal a day. Here males pay 15 euros per kilo and females 8. All the Chinese buy them.
Figure out a way to export them to Maryland/Virginia in the United States
Their native stock is critically low and people are paying TOP DOLLAR
Here in the southern US they are a staple crop and people travel across the world and enjoy Gulf of Mexico blue crabs, which are probably where some of the ones that are in Italy came from
How to make a crab pound trap not used much anymore
Gd
grab a crab dude. "happy pickin"...
I wasn't able to see anything that was being done. You to put it on something white.
I can't tell what your doing up against your dark shirt
my last name is actually "walker". a typo, ho ho ho, as in Idaho, but i'm not da hoe...
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put an underwater camera you'll realize these traps are too light in weight, when tides change these things get knocked around where most get sucked out while being dragged/knocked around
I’ve never had one move at all. We don’t have strong tides here.
Zip tie a brick to the bottom