On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Product Information Department wrote: > To take this in another direction, I'm curious about catching crabs (I > don't mean the kind you get from careless selection of a tent and/or > sleeping bag mate). I have seen full circular tube-and-netting crab traps > that disassemble, but they still look a bit big for a long tour, unless you > were going to eat crab for every meal. I have recently seen smaller wire > mesh folding pyramid traps. The idea seems to be that you lower the baited > trap, and hover over it watching until a suitable crab starts to dine, then > pull up the trap, which lifts the walls around your dinner guest. Anyone > tried one of these? i used those type in north carolina years back. we went home with pots full of crab. just wait about 15 minutes, so they're eating the bait, the swoosh, and you've got a crab ;-) mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: "In a world without fences, who needs 'Gates'" -- Scott McNealy "In a world without walls, who needs 'Windows'" -- Dave Livigni *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 11:42:20 PST
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