Anyone have any suggestions or concerns in regards to crabbing from an inflatable? I've been crabbing at my friends place in secehlt with his aluminum boat for years but I now have an 11 ft zodiac and was wondering how safe it is dragging traps up in an inflatable boat. I have a couple of the 24" square traps with about 70ft of line on each so I pull by hand. Obviously dragging the rope right over the side of an inflatable would be a bad idea. I've seen those Scotty manual line ease devices which mounts to a rod holder mount and puts the pulley out past the edge of the boat. Would this work well with an inflatable? I was wondering it it would put too much load on the side tube if I'm dragging up a heavy trap. The boat material seems fairly sturdy so I don' see a crab puncturing the boat, mostly concerned about overloading the side tube or catching the boat with the trap pulling it up.
Thanks.
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