What food?

[3legged_lab]

But we have good luck running these with a chicken leg inside and casting them with a salmon rod. Seem to be able to cast them farther out than the people throwing by hand and usually bring in more legal size crab.

[Woody]

But we have good luck running these with a chicken leg inside and casting them with a salmon rod. Seem to be able to cast them farther out than the people throwing by hand and usually bring in more legal size crab.

That is one hell of a contraption.

[3legged_lab]

But we have good luck running these with a chicken leg inside and casting them with a salmon rod. Seem to be able to cast them farther out than the people throwing by hand and usually bring in more legal size crab.

That is one hell of a contraption.

Its actually really simple. Spring open, closes when you reel up and stays closed as long as you dont let the line go slack.
http://www.crabhawk.com/the_crabhawk

[Rick]

That casting contraption is pretty wild. See some folks here using the drop nets similar to the type you have there, but mostly rich city types. Seems to me like a lot of crabs must bail out of them on the way up. Me, I'd just as soon eat something else until Sweet Chereau takes a fit to go fish them or SIL drops off a box.

[GadwallGetter530]

@beef
But seriously, have you ever crab fished with a fishing pole? Its actually a lot of fun.

Yup used to do that all the time of the rocks. Fun stuff.

[3legged_lab]

That casting contraption is pretty wild. See some folks here using the drop nets similar to the type you have there, but mostly rich city types. Seems to me like a lot of crabs must bail out of them on the way up. Me, I'd just as soon eat something else until Sweet Chereau takes a fit to go fish them or SIL drops off a box.

They cant really bail out because the net gets about a foot deep when you retrieve it. The casting ones work well too because they close as long as they have steady pressure from the rod/line.
With the casting ones I've brought in as many as 2 dozen small (under legal) size crabs at once before.