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Offline blynch

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Places to drop a crab pot.
« on: June 30, 2008, 08:55:15 PM »
I have a nice standard sized Chesapeake style crab pot. I load it up with bunker or bluefish, ans set it down for an amount of time ranging from a 4 days to 4 hours.  I generally leave it next to my boat or in the back of the Manasquan river in about six feet of water.  I generally catch about 1 keeper crab.   rgmn 5hrug  They seem to eat the bait fully, so i don't think that is the problem.  do you guys have any strategies for finding a good location to drop?
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Re: Places to drop a crab pot.
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2008, 11:28:28 PM »
The problem might not be the location but the pot and the long soak time.

While on vacation down in Fla. I saw a show on crabbing and/or lobsters.  They put an underwater camera focused on the pot for over 24 hours and they figured that they were only catching about 40% of what really went into (and out of) the pot.  Unbelievable...

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Re: Places to drop a crab pot.
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2008, 05:53:04 AM »
the problem is you may be leaving it in to long.  Over night the longest.  The crabs will start eating each other, or they can still find a way to excape.  Find a nice creek where the creek and the bay meet together, set it off the bank over night.  Or the channel edges for a few hours.
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