Anyone tried putting lights in prawn or crab traps with any notable success?
"So many fish-So little time"
I've tried the lights in my prawn traps. I've noticed no real difference. I started out with lights in all pots and caught prawns. Then I experimented with putting lights in 1/2 the pots and 1/2 without. I saw no noticable difference. I still have them wired in to the pots (they are water activated) since they certainly didn't hurt the catch so I figured I might as well use them since I have them.
I thought that it was against the reg's. Maybe that is just for fin fish as i could not find it in the reg's.
No the fin fish says -has to be within 3 ft of the hook- don't recall it saying anything about prawns-I will dig deeper-Just my curious nature-Anything with a battery is probably more trouble than its worth!!
The US crab fishery tried them back in the 80's crabing in and around Puget Sound. I believe it was axed. I remember get a handfull of them and it didn't work for me either. They were cool though. They lite up with contact of the water.
Don't ever take your boat to Parker Marine. Don't say I didn't warn you.
I'd rather find out if it's legal to dope your prawn bait with sleeping pills so the prawns fall asleep in the trap and don't try to get out before you haul it up.
Thinkin that Spring fever is right... batts would be a pain. Glow sticks would work though. The wife's a pharmacists I'll look into Knotty's idea LOL
When I tried glow sticks, I got a record catch of ratfish!!
Some mornings I wake up grouchy, others I let her sleep.
I made some of those traps out of white herring roe buckets, then got a thought that the orange bait jars out produced the white ones so we painted one trap fluorescent orange we call it the mother ship, can see it from 100 feet down and it catches prawns. I've tried glow sticks with no good results
I put a green flashing led in 1 of 2 traps on a set. There was a huge difference - negative. Maybe the flashing scared them off, maybe a coincidence, maybe something else. Didn't try it again.
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