Crab hawk and make your own

[fish_4_all]

I have made 3 or 4 different crab traps and have had good luck with them. Snares, tangle lines, fold traps and the works always work well.



I made these snares recently but haven't had a chance to try them with the bait boxes tied to them. I will post a picture of the ones I have made that are like the crab hawk tomorrow if I can find them.

I have also been looking at the Crab Hawk and I was wondering if anyone had ever used one? I want to make mine open easily so I can cast them but I can not figure out the spring mechanism and I am too cheap to buy one to figure it out. Anyone tell me how it works so I can make some for fall?

[GCD]

Too "high tech" for me! Back in the "old" days we used to use half a wire clothes hanger formed in a circle with 3 chicken necks threaded onto it. Tie a piece twine to the ring and throw it out as far as you could fom shore (making sure the loose end was attached to the stick in the bank first). Then when the line moved to the left or right, it meant crab pickin' time wasn't far away! Slowly bring the ring to shore with a hand over hand retrieve and prepare the "Crab net"! When the ring came to whithin a couple inches of the surface and you could see the Blue Claws on it, we'd slip the net under the ring and have 1-6 ill tempered crustaceans for the garbage can!

[fish_4_all]

i wish Dungeoness held on like Blues do. They will hold on for a while but once they close to the surface they let go, often as deep as 5 feet down. Have to tangle these little suckers up so they can't simply let go until we get a net under them.