Hunting Washington Forum
Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: Old Dog on July 15, 2013, 07:37:58 AM
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Set my traps on Sat evening. Pulled them Sunday noon. One trap was fouled, and I am very careful about how I set my traps, with nothing in it. The other trap had three small crabs. One of my brother's pots was completely empty, no bait and no crabs. He had a salmon head wired in the trap, so the bait should have still been there. His other trap had some bait, but no crabs.
We re-set my traps, and went cutthroat fishing for a few hours. After three hours we checked my traps, and they were FULL! Mostly female, and too small males, but they were full.
I work hard for my crabs, and it really angers me to have some low life azzhat steal them. :bash: Anyone else having this problem?
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It’s not unusual for a pot to be empty after a soak that long. A starfish can enter; eat all the bait and leave. Crabs can find their way out if the doors aren’t weighted, or by other means. Maybe your pots were raided, but consider other possibilities.
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I quit setting gear anywhere around Dewatto bay a long time ago. I have caught several people out there messing with my gear. I have had pulled traps that have the doors wired open when I pulled them up. Not worth it anymore.
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I had a few pots that this happened to me with. I only fished union but close enough. I would set for 12 hours come back and nothing. I had a pot get stolen once and boy that made me mad more so cause my kid was with me and he almost cried. Flipping 80 dollar pot rope and bouy. I think the skok Indians cruze around at night and pull pots to check them and If their nice pots they steal them. I learned to only set for a few hours that way the crab can't get out. Get some tube lead and fix it to the doors cause I think they do ex cape if givin enough time too.
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Update: Soaked them over night again last night. First trap had 3 keepers, and the second trap had 1. :drool:
I still think something or someone raided my pots Sat. night. >:(
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Man I miss the hood canal. I have soaked overnight to catch a few keepers then fished an caught a nice chinook then gone to potlatch and dug steamers and picked and shucked a few oysters all in the same day. I could eat really well out there. :drool: maybe I'll get a place out there to retire and live the glory days all over again.
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We had the same problem this weekend at Quarter Master Harbor.
One of our pots was even stolen :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:
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I have experienced this a handful of times, but I am sure everywhere has it's problems I still am able to get more than enough for our needs. Though I will say picking a pot is one thing stealing it is on a whole different level.
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I set my pots in a straight line, 8hr soak and the 2 end pots where suffed, 2 middle ones not a thing, olle man who ownes the place I kicked off at said he saw some dirty people pullin my pots :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:
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if you can set them little deep theres a 80-120ft hole set there not so easy to pull at that depth that bay been hit hard
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I have crabbed the canal for a long time. Only 1 time did someone mess with our pots and my dad ran out and put a basketball sized hole in the side of a 24 foot trophy with our skiff :chuckle:. I would stay away from the heavy hit areas like dewatto and tahuya.
