@!#$%! Crab Traps -- Day 3

[Ibtsoom]

Was gonna take a break today but my 9 year old talked me into going to Halls Bayou to look for more traps. I figured there couldn't possibly be that many in there... WRONG!! I started at the 2004 ramp and ran out through Halls Lake into Chocolate. Picked up another 25 traps today!!! We're up to 65! I gotta go back to work so I can rest!! My photographer (wife) had to work today so I didn't get quite as many pics -- there all starting to meld together anyway.. Here's a few from today...

[Ibtsoom]

Sandy -- at 35$ each that's over 2G's worth of traps! I don't know what they're thinking either. I can understand the ones that I find washed up in the marsh but the whole strings I find abandoned just as they were placed don't make any sense to me.

[dbarham]

thanks for hittin my stomping grounds your a good man for helping out!

[GreenTide]

Great job! I am surprised you didn't get some sort of award for most traps turned in. Way to keep the bay clean and free of debris!

[reeltime]

Your getting old at 65 buddy!lol......outstanding jobe!

[coachlaw]

Don't know how y'all do it. In all my meanderings around SLP, Christmas, and Bastrop Bay, I've only seen one abandoned trap, just ONE. How many under-sized crabs you reckon those fellers have to sell to make up for all the gear they leave all over the place?

[small bites]

Thank you.

[WestEndAngler]

Great work Mike

[buoy37]

Way to go Mike and family.

You guys have really been doing a most excellent deed. I wish I would have spent my weekend following your lead.

[Oleander Kayaker]

Sandy -- at 35$ each that's over 2G's worth of traps! I don't know what they're thinking either. I can understand the ones that I find washed up in the marsh but the whole strings I find abandoned just as they were placed don't make any sense to me.

Wow, and I made the comment about being superhuman for your Sunday effort. Speechless...

Ya think that maybe the "trappers" haven't paid attention to the TPWD notice that traps needed to be pulled before the 17th? That they think the stringer is still there?

[Robalo]

WOW!! WTG! Thanks-that's a helluva lot IBTSOOM!!!

[speckledred]

That's a lot of traps. Great job.

[joey saladino]

Thanks.You did a great job

[Ibtsoom]

Wow, and I made the comment about being superhuman for your Sunday effort. Speechless...

Ya think that maybe the "trappers" haven't paid attention to the TPWD notice that traps needed to be pulled before the 17th? That they think the stringer is still there?

I'd say from the amount of moss growth on most of those strings that they've been there for at least several months without being fished..


Thanks for all of the kudos guys.. We enjoy helping out and the kids are learning a lot about preserving the resource and having a blast doing it!!

[nokatchin]

Very nice job.Thanks