Radar trick for crab pots

[localboy]

Always interested in any new info, tricks, education etc to make our boating experiences safer, more fun etc. Summers in the Puget Sound is prime dungeness crab season, both commercial & rec, so crab pots are everywhere.

 

[wkearney99]

Don't know what the conditions are like out there, but here on the Chesapeake it's a fools errand trying to use radar to avoid them. Keeping a sharp lookout is still the only way to do it.

What's worse than the ones you see are the ones that have only partially sunk or used floating line that's still lingering just below the surface. I've snagged some lines, twice the past season, and it seems the previous owner's installation of line cutters on the shafts came to my rescue.