Thanks WDFW

[Camo]

Fished the low Wednesday and returning to the marina a heavily staffed WDFW boat was departing.
When I looked up on the ramp there was a tandem axle utility trailer loaded with what I would guess to be 40+ recreational crab pots.
Made my day to see that many derelict/potentially illegal pots, get cleaned out of the area.

[jstone]

 

[Jake Dogfish]

That’s great! 

People need to be more careful.  I’ve read two reports recently of people throwing there pots over without the buoy line attached.  Derelict gear are crab killing machines.  Pay attention to what you are doing!

[Brushcrawler]

That is good. It helps if people report them when they lose https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfishing-regulations/gear-rules/lost-gear

[MADMAX]

Hooked a commercial ? pot
On the downrigger cable
Knew it was not ending well
First time In 30 years
Blue and yellow buoy below surface didn’t see it
Cost me a cable, 12lb ball, clip, flasher etc
Between skunk bay and Norwegian pt in 130 feet of water
Beware

[Stein]

I've seen them in Everett several times, huge haul of pots.  I don't know how they recover them, but they guy said he could go out every day all year and never run out of pots to recover.

I know a guy who lost one today, please be careful where you set, not on top of someone else, and if you use those flimsy pvc poles make sure you have a secondary float of some sort so when it breaks you don't loose the whole thing.  It happened to me about 20 years ago and I learned my lesson with those things.

You can re-rig them so if they break you don't loose it, they come rigged with a loop at the top and that will just slip over the pvc and then bye-bye, it needs to go through a hole in the pvc or better yet have a secondary buoy attached.