Hey Guys,
I have rebar around the bottom perimeter of my crab pots. This worked great if I was throwing them out at the landing or from my kayak, there was nothing to damage. I want to start dropping them off out of my boat when I head out fishing. The rebar rusts, leaves stains, and damages the fiberglass. Anyone know where I would be able to buy lead bars locally to substitute for the rebar? Or if you have any other ideas for weighting these things to keep from rolling over? Thanks.
Any scuba shop in area has lead weights.
Not sure how your set up is, but why not just cut some plywood to put your pots on to and from the landing? The rust shouldn’t stain unless you leave the pots on the boat when you store it.
Narcosis
get a couple of 9# downrigger balls and put inside the pot, zip tie in the corner…should work as long as the current isn’t super strong…
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You can go to scrap yards and metal recycling plants and find lead for cheap. Get a kitchen floor mat and roll it out were you set your crab pot, there good for cast netting too. You can spray your rebar with truck bed liner or something similar and it will coat the rebar lime the rest of your pot.
For my keys pinfish trap
I used lengths of PVC pipe filled with : Rebar or all-thread rod, etc.
Glue/Cap both ends.
Tywrap to trap and
have a clean setup!!
Use pvc as close to rod size as possible so not so much air space in pipe- I used 5/8 all-thread in 3/4 pvc because that is what I had around
I have a brick zip tied into mine
2002 17’SeaHunt