problem with crab pot :(

[brissy fish]

Hey guys,

recently i got a new round crab pot as i gave my old rectangle ones away cause i went over seas.. any way, i have thrown the round crab pot in to some of my favorite crab spots which i used to catch a lot of crab with the rectangle one but i havent had any luck with the round one...

so i dont know what the problem is?? i have made the holes a bit bigger cause i thought maybe they couldnt get in but that hasnt helped dont know what to do cause i dont want to throw it..

Any ideas of what my problem is????

PS im writing this at 4 am after work so it does make sence that is why lol

[wesfish]

i have udes both at the same time and they both work, did you have your pot in sight or did you leave there over night as sharefarmers may have taken your crabs.

[faulked]

you cant fit square crabs into round holes :laugh:

[wesfish]

faulked wrote:

you cant fit square crabs into round holes :laugh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: did not think of that one

[snapsnap]

hope its not someone ratting them

[mick fillet]

hey mate they both work a treat.

go out and give it another crack after this rain might flush a few out.

good luck

[straddiebrad]

they should work,but i wouldnt be making the holes bigger the crabs will get in even the big ones.you put bait in them :laugh:

[brissy fish]

yeah i only let them soak while we r there and some times that a 8 hr sesh.... most of the time we use frozen mullet from the servo, sliced and old bream or flatties frames...

will try again soon..

Thanks for the advise

[Mr FeLiX]

If you think it's worth the effort, try either getting some fresh bait eg. tailor, tuna etc. It can make a difference, even with crabs.

Felix

[woody1]

Are they the 4 entry ones? or the 2 entry pots with the gutter guard stuff around the entrance? I had some of the 2 entry ones and realised I was throwing them in upside down, so the entry was pointing upwards and the crabs couldn't get in.

[Gad]

brissy fish wrote:

yeah i only let them soak while we r there and some times that a 8 hr sesh.... most of the time we use frozen mullet from the servo, sliced and old bream or flatties frames...

will try again soon.. :)Thanks for the advise

matey,the last lot of serious crabbing #1 son and I did was back in march/april,weather was crappy,my round pots were out doing his rectangular ones about 3-1,and I personally find the rectangular ones too fiddly to empty and rebait when your running a line of pots.

The area we were crabbing has its resident sharefarmers so we checked our pots about every 2.5 hrs and I think this helped our catch rate,because if there wasn`t anything in a pot we would move it a bit further along,so that by the end of each day(we left our pots undisturbed overnights) we had covered a reasonable amount of area.So we were chasing them rather than waiting for them to come to the pots.

I like to drop my pots around mangrove creek mouths and likely areas where the bottom drops away about 2-3 metres,this especially if there`s been rain around.I drop my pots with the entrance holes facing up and down current.

With your bait you could experiment and splash a bit of kero on the baits of half your pots and see if that helps.Any legal fish you keep for a feed,freeze the frames and heads for future pot baits

But the bottom line is mud crab numbers should be starting to improve