MrMikie
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Registered: 08/01/03
Posts: 1506
Loc: Groton, CT
I have kept them right here in my yard for a couple weeks. I put them in a burlap bag, not plastic, but burlap. I take it down to the river a couple times a week in the evening and lay it down and let them get a drink for about 10 minutes. This also wets the sack good. I put it inot a bucket for transport and bring it back to the house. I then place it into a larger plastic tube where they can spread out a bit yet still be within the burlap sack and dump any salt water from the bucket over the sack to dampen it. Its now good for a couple more days. I keep them up against a stockade fence that is under a tree and out of any sunlight. Then when I go fishing I can even place the sack into the livewell for a while to give them a little reviving.
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CAPT. HOOP
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Registered: 11/02/02
Posts: 7540
Loc: Empire / Venice, La
Fuzzy I already answered this question for you but for the benifit of the others; The more you empty the trap and the fresher the bait the more crabs you get. A natural enemy is the blachfish so you will get less crabs but you will still get them.
Fishing is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
I can drive from Niantic to Danbury and back to get green crabs for $1.75/dozen ... or I can pull the $4 trap out from under my dock, empty a couple dozen greenies into a pail and go fishing.
8 cents each at DEEs in New Haven (thats $.96 a dozen for you guys who went to public schools) ...I put a trap out at my dock and got none after several hours...how close do you have to be to salt water? I am at Pier 76 in Westbrook, am I too far up river?
...I put a trap out at my dock and got none after several hours...how close do you have to be to salt water? I am at Pier 76 in Westbrook, am I too far up river?
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