"Fake" Crab Pots?

[Steve]

The neighbors at my fishing camp in Cocodrie, Louisiana are crabbers, for Blue Crabs, they have to keep their traps out of the way of the shrimpers, the crab traps cause a mess if they get up in the shrimp nets. Crabbers will pull them out of the nets and stomp them flat then toss them up on the bank.
We have to buy an endorsement on the saltwater license $15.00 for up to 10 traps, A saltwater lic. is $5.00 for seniors, I have six I just hang them off of my bulkhead and docks, baited with fish heads I usually pick up a 12-18 keepers overnight

 

[drb1025]

While anchored in Garrison Bay on San Juan Island this summer, my wife made a similar comment after seeing the many crab floats in front of a very nice waterfront home, thinking the home owner put them there to keep boaters from anchoring. I decided to drop a crab pot there and pulled up a couple of keepers in about an hour. I assumed the others were real after that.