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Anyone trot line for crabs ?
Posted on 8/10/26 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 8/10/26 at 12:01 pm
Anyone trot line for crabs ? What’s your setup ? Any tips for this beginner ?
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Posted on 8/10/26 at 12:17 pm to JRinNOLA
I always wanted to try this after seeing it. Good Luck and let us know how it goes.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 12:39 pm to JRinNOLA
I do it all the time on GI beach.
Two T posts with nylon string and turkey necks
Two T posts with nylon string and turkey necks
Posted on 8/10/26 at 1:23 pm to JRinNOLA
I don't get it. I try using crab traps with raw chicken and sometimes they sneak out on you. How are you supposed to pull up on a rope that has no barriers and the crabs don't all scram immediately?
Would like to know how this works better.
Would like to know how this works better.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:43 pm to tadman
My father-in-law used to tell me they fished crabs this way when he was a kid in the '40s and '50s at Delacroix Island.
I'm surprised what they are doing in that video is working as well as it does. Going fast.
FIL used to tell me you ran the line slowly and gently and the crabs would not let go of the bait, you just slip the net under them BUT you had to make sure you were down-sun from them because they would let go immediately if they saw your shadow.
I'm surprised what they are doing in that video is working as well as it does. Going fast.
FIL used to tell me you ran the line slowly and gently and the crabs would not let go of the bait, you just slip the net under them BUT you had to make sure you were down-sun from them because they would let go immediately if they saw your shadow.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:29 pm to Jack Daniel
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I do it all the time on GI beach.
Two T posts with nylon string and turkey necks
Same. Works well
Posted on 8/10/26 at 4:02 pm to Jack Daniel
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Two T posts with nylon string and turkey necks
Grew up doing it this way in the surf in GI.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 4:25 pm to JRinNOLA
Had a fireman friend, now deceased, who made a nice living with his sideline crab fishing on a long line.
He had two 1/4 mile long main lines with bait line drops about every 10 ft. or so and he used hog snoots as bait since they lasted a long time.
He had his flatboat equipped with a trailer roller off to the side that he'd let the line run on to bring up the baited lines and he used a long handle net that he removed the netting and put in some chicken wire to replace it to scoop the crabs. He'd also have 3 hampers set up for small, medium and large crabs as he scooped them.
He'd run one line out and one line back in and then start running them for crabs. He'd catch hampers full of crabs when they were running and most times he sold them right there after he pulled his boat out of the water at the Seabrook Bridge.d
I went with him a couple times and it was so damn easy the way he was set up. When finished crabbing, he'd pull the lines and coil them in big hampers and put them in a meat cooler he had in his garage. Those hog snoots lasted several trips according to him.
He had two 1/4 mile long main lines with bait line drops about every 10 ft. or so and he used hog snoots as bait since they lasted a long time.
He had his flatboat equipped with a trailer roller off to the side that he'd let the line run on to bring up the baited lines and he used a long handle net that he removed the netting and put in some chicken wire to replace it to scoop the crabs. He'd also have 3 hampers set up for small, medium and large crabs as he scooped them.
He'd run one line out and one line back in and then start running them for crabs. He'd catch hampers full of crabs when they were running and most times he sold them right there after he pulled his boat out of the water at the Seabrook Bridge.d
I went with him a couple times and it was so damn easy the way he was set up. When finished crabbing, he'd pull the lines and coil them in big hampers and put them in a meat cooler he had in his garage. Those hog snoots lasted several trips according to him.
Posted on 8/11/26 at 2:22 pm to Jack Daniel
Use to on GI beach but was impossible to pick up and reuse without a tangled mess. Switch to dip nets and if you lazy just throw cages out.
Posted on 8/11/26 at 2:51 pm to tadman
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I don't get it. I try using crab traps with raw chicken and sometimes they sneak out on you
Somebody ran your traps before you!
Posted on 8/11/26 at 9:00 pm to CouldCareLess
For a few years I had 10 crab traps in lake Pontchatrane and about twice a year some A hole would raid my traps. I started putting zip ties on them to help stop them.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 6:18 am to gumbo2176
Capt Ron?
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Had a fireman friend, now deceased,
Posted on 8/12/26 at 6:27 am to JRinNOLA
I do it on the beach in Grand Isle. 2 sticks, 100 yards line, about 30 yards from first stick put your first bait. A bait every 5 yards every yards after that. Between every 4th bait put a weight. To hold your line down.
My mom's dad use to run a couple 1,000 yard trot lines out of a boat for crabs in Lake Des Allemands. They used salted cow lips for bait. I dont even know if you can buy cow lips anymore.
I always wanted to try it out of a boat but never got around to it.
My mom's dad use to run a couple 1,000 yard trot lines out of a boat for crabs in Lake Des Allemands. They used salted cow lips for bait. I dont even know if you can buy cow lips anymore.
I always wanted to try it out of a boat but never got around to it.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 7:40 am to Cubera
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Capt Ron?
No. Been dead 30 years now. Damn cancer got him and got him quick once discovered.
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