Trap Puller I built.

[Fish Nutz]

The wheel is a 3/4" rubber mat cut into a circle from CT sandwiched between 2 pieces of plastic. The wheel was probably the hardest part for me to source out. I tried finding stainless pie plates but all the ones i found were too large. It attached easily all you have to to is drill and bolt it on. Also if you look with my model I had a pillow block made out of high density plastic to hold the spool into the winch. Mine uses a scotty plug and works great.

 

[springnut]

Thank you so much for the posts guys. I bought a winch from CT with the Idea of trap puller and now I know what and how to do it. No more pulling by hand.

 

[walleyes]

Just got back from Tofino a couple days ago and had a chance to try it out.. Worked pretty good lots of power it is a little slow so I am thinking of going with a bit bigger pulley to speed er up. It took about 10 - 12 min to pull 2 traps out of 300 + - feet of water. We did 2 sets a day for 3 days and no problems with the winch.

As far as the prawning went we didn't do all that well. Our first set we got 2 dozen beauties but got greedy and tryed moving a few times and never got on them again and we ran out of time to set back in the spot. The crabbing was awesome tho got some awesome dungeness and quite a few red rock. We did manage one decent 21 pound spring as well.

Here is a video of the puller in use. Coming off bottom with 2 traps set at 320ft..

Just click on the pic to view the video.

 

[Fish-Hunter]

Nice job Walleyes! Sure beats the hell out of hand hauling, eh! On our puller that we made the wheel diameter is 12" and doesn't even grunt hauling 2 traps with the 2000lb winch that we used, would probably work fine on your rig also. Definitely worth every minute it took to build!

 

[tubber]

Nice. Do you untie from your bouy and lean out to poke the tag end of your line through the block, or unpin it to feed in the bite? What keeps the shaft from your wheel engaged in the motor?

 

[walleyes]

Nice. Do you untie from your bouy and lean out to poke the tag end of your line through the block, or unpin it to feed in the bite? What keeps the shaft from your wheel engaged in the motor?

Yes at this point I have to untie the end of the rope. I am on the look out for a proper open sided pully as well I would like it to be graphite,, I just put this one on for the time being until I get a hold of the peoper one.

If you look at some of the first pics on the close ups you should be able to see how I keep the pulley and shaft on. I think this is what you are asking ???

 

[Fish-Hunter]

Yes at this point I have to untie the end of the rope. I am on the look out for a proper open sided pully as well I would like it to be graphite,, I just put this one on for the time being until I get a hold of the peoper one.

I went to the marine swap meet at Independent Shipwrights Yesterday and found these in the store. Remembered that you mentioned you were looking for an open block, may be a bit pricey??? (considering it's aprox. 1/3 of your total costs for puller) We made our own, pretty simple but works great.

Store:


One we made:




Cheers.

 

[walleyes]

Those are definetly the ones a guy woould need.. I will keep my eye out I will find something close..

Thx Fish-Hunter

 

[deckhand]

walleyes: I've been looking at your photo's and hope to make one this winter. Only make it to central coast for 8 days, but would like to do a little shrimping too.
Tried to do the hand pull a couple of years ago and only had one fish left. Do you think a used treadmill motor would work? I suppose it would need to be geared? I've just joined so be gentle