Libbs
Member
I am very new to prawning, this being my first season with traps.
A couple weeks back I launched at Fanny Bay, dropped my prawn traps about half way towards Denman Island, and ran out to fish Flora Is and Qualicum for a few hrs. After all the hype and good reports elsewhere, I was excited to pull the traps. Only 5 prawns came to the boat. As I started stacking the gear I noticed a hole in one trap. So I inspected the other, and sure enough, an identical hole in the other. No wonder they were empty!
One of the traps had two small crabs in it.
I used prawn pellets and tuna cat food 50/50 in the bait jars, and also threw in a salmon belly in each trap. Depth where I dropped the traps was about 215'.
So now I'm wondering what happened...
-I've heard of seals getting into traps, but I imagined way more damage.
-Could the crabs chew through? If so, was I fishing too shallow or was having a salmon belly in there a bad idea... enticing them?
-I wasn't within eyeshot of the traps...vandals? But why would they just cut holes and not steal the traps?
Can anyone enlighten me as to what happened?
Thx!
A couple weeks back I launched at Fanny Bay, dropped my prawn traps about half way towards Denman Island, and ran out to fish Flora Is and Qualicum for a few hrs. After all the hype and good reports elsewhere, I was excited to pull the traps. Only 5 prawns came to the boat. As I started stacking the gear I noticed a hole in one trap. So I inspected the other, and sure enough, an identical hole in the other. No wonder they were empty!
One of the traps had two small crabs in it.
I used prawn pellets and tuna cat food 50/50 in the bait jars, and also threw in a salmon belly in each trap. Depth where I dropped the traps was about 215'.
So now I'm wondering what happened...
-I've heard of seals getting into traps, but I imagined way more damage.
-Could the crabs chew through? If so, was I fishing too shallow or was having a salmon belly in there a bad idea... enticing them?
-I wasn't within eyeshot of the traps...vandals? But why would they just cut holes and not steal the traps?
Can anyone enlighten me as to what happened?
Thx!