Re-Stringing Prawn traps

[michael_reiber]

Our mesh is finally starting to wear so we are starting to look for options on re-string our traps, they're all commercial traps and we have 12 of them, does anyone have experience re-stringing them selves? Is it easy? And where do you get the mesh? I called Ladner traps and they said they'll do it for 50 bucks a trap, but they are on the main land and were on the island which is another aditional cost. Or does anyone know of a place on the island that re-strings them? Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Michael

 

[Gong Show]

Yeah it's an issue.
I have about 10, same deal. They are old and just falling apart.
It costs me $45 to buy a one year old commie trap that is in great nick, or $50 to re-mesh them.
Wish I could just get a 'core charge' for them and pay $20 every three years to swap em!

 

[Corey_lax]

Yeah it's an issue.
I have about 10, same deal. They are old and just falling apart.
It costs me $45 to buy a one year old commie trap that is in great nick, or $50 to re-mesh them.
Wish I could just get a 'core charge' for them and pay $20 every three years to swap em!

Sounds like a good side job

 

[Dorman Point]

I have bought the mesh at PNT in the past and have both repaired and made my own. They aren't things of beauty, but then neither am I and they work fine.

 

[spring time]

Can you just get the net bags from Ladner traps and then it’s easy just re use the rope and entrances from your old ones

 

[Dogbreath]

Can you just get the net bags from Ladner traps and then it’s easy just re use the rope and entrances from your old ones

You could always phone & ask-the thing I found about Ladner traps is that sometime they are just crazy busy and aren't very responsive other times they'll do what they can.

 

[Ruff]

I built a couple of traps last year using mesh from PN&T. The traps I built were actually for king crabs but the mesh would work great for prawns.

 

[Islander57]

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