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Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 04 9:14 pm Post subject: Crab and lobster pots
Is it possible to use crab and lobster pots and place these at low tide and then collect them at the next low tide? I.e. not use a boat, just place them yourself in the water at low tide? Would you get much and has anyone tried it?

leebu

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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 04 10:13 pm Post subject:
Wouldn't someone just...nick them if they were that easy to get at? Aren't they quite expensive?

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 04 10:17 pm Post subject:
If you put them out at low tide and then went back for them there would only be a short while they could be collected. Do people steel the ones in the sea you have to collect by boat?

alison
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 04 10:23 pm Post subject:
Don't know the answer, but it would be easy for others to take the catch, if not the pot.

deerstalker

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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 04 11:27 pm Post subject:
Not really. Trouble is, most of the worthwhile stuff lives below the low water mark. So the only good chance you'd get, was to set your pots at low water on the spring tides - which means you have to wait a while!

scarecrow

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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 10:05 am Post subject:
Is there any benefit to using lobster pots in freshwater rivers. I hear much about American Crayfish taking over english rivers at the expense of the smaller english crayfish. Does anyone know if they are edible?

alison
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 10:08 am Post subject:
Yes they are. HFW ate them in one of his programmes.

scarecrow

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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 10:11 am Post subject:
Yes, I remember the show now. I must get round to buying the 3 series DVD boxed set!

alison
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 10:15 am Post subject:
I think father Christmas may be buying me one of the dvd's this year.

scarecrow

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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 10:16 am Post subject:
Damn, I knew there was something I forgot to put on my list!!

alison
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 11:47 am Post subject:
It is even better when you shop for it yourself!!

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 12:51 pm Post subject:
I've thrown pots at low tide. You will be succesful but as mentioned above it will be generally smaller than if you throw from a boat. Saying that I've thrown my pots about 30 yards out from a rocky shore and got good sized browns and lobster so location is far more important.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 9:52 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

I've thrown pots at low tide. You will be succesful but as mentioned above it will be generally smaller than if you throw from a boat.

Saying that I've thrown my pots about 30 yards out from a rocky shore and got good sized browns and lobster so location is far more important.

That's good to hear. I don't expect huge crabs etc, but if we ever live near the coast it would be worth trying.

deerstalker

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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 11:31 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Got to admit, you're done better than I have. In my experience, the biggest problem with thowing at low tide, was losses due to snagging (you could only get them back on springs, by which time they were usually destroyed or gone!). Add this to losses from stealing and pure vandalism (even in remote places), and the return wasn't worth it!

cab

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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 04 9:41 am Post subject:

Tried a bit of this on Anglesea this year. I rigged up a pot-like contraption out of some netting and bits of wite I found on the shore, and put in some meat as a bait. Left it at low tide, and caught myself some shore crabs and dog whelks. The shore crabs were small ones, and I don't fancy eating little whelks. So a glowing example of a partial success.

I had better joy catching shore crabs by using the netting wrapped around a bit of smelly meat, on a line. They make a superb basis for a pasta sauce, but there's not a lot on them (you really only want to keep the bigger ones).

To be honest, if it's a nice, clean shoreline there are better ways of gathering food from it than throwing pots out at low tide. Mussels, winkles, limpets, shore crabs, cockles... Depending on where you are and whether it's clean or not, you're likely to find any or all of those.

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