Hey guys, just got here a month ago. Living near Daniel Island and want to find a deck where I can hang a crab pot from that will not walk off while it’s soaking. If anyone has some ideas please IM me or post. Thanks guys. I’m here for 2 more months and you guys have a wonderful thing going on here.
find someone with a private dock or stay and watch it or sadly it will walk off… just the way it is…
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Jay,
Not sure if your doing it solo or with family, but one fun way if you find an approriate dock is hit wally world or patronize a local tackle shop and pick up a couple three or four crab baskets and bait them with some turkey necks and work them hard while your crab pot is soaking. It is fun to watch the competion with the young ones on how many they can catch!
What is so neat is as the tide changes which baskets catch the most, just a few feet can make a big difference. Lost one of the turkey necks and tied some left over squid to one… two skates and six turtle and one crab before it was gone. Heck just being on a dock near the water is one sure stress relief.
One more for you … pick any of the local landings… other than on the weekend… and use some crab baskets and work them hard… you’ll catch crabs… them old buzzards of the sea aren’t that ellusive.
Ok. I’m going to give away a big secret. Won’t leave this posted for long. Here is a way to stay legal and NOT lose your crab pot. Tie your pot to the bottom of a dock piling, around the middle length of rope. You will probably need to do some free diving to do this. Put your float on the free end of the rope. Go home and sleep in peace. Thief tries to steal pot, but can’t get it off the bottom. “Hmmm, must be tangled up; I give up!”
Alternatively, you can use a VERY short bouy line that is not visible except at the lowest of tides, being underwater the rest of the day.
You return during the quiet morning hours or appropriate tide, fish up the rope with a gaff or using a some other method (invisible mono line, tiny grappling hook, etc.), and harvest what is rightfully yours.
Legal. Safe. Secure.
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Pungo 120This is so sad…what has the world come to? I know it’s a fact but man…what a shame. I have sadly had to take similar precautions with deer stands as well. All I did however is put a laminated note on the stand that said “smile, you’re on camera”. With all of the video surveylance devices out there it’s totaly possible. But I was only bluffing. Never lost another stand though…yet.
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Thanks guys, great ideas. It is sad that folks would lose ethics over 30 bucks and crap on a fellow outdoorsman/woman at the same time. Any good pawn shops that have a lot of gear that in case it does walk I won’t feel soo bad?
They make timed corrodible zinc links that you can tie the the float directly to the trap. The zinc dissolves in the prescribed time and the float pops to the surface. A 23 hour link keeps the trap hidden until you get back the next day.