From: Lobster, Prawn, Crab and Fish Traps

[Toerag]

Chub Frenzy, I am assuming you wish to set your pots from the shore, yes? If so you need to find a pier or rock mark with a few feet of water on a low spring tide. Tie your pot onto sinking rope (not the cheap blue polypropylene that floats) and tie the other end onto your pier, or a steel peg hammered into a crack in the rock. Bait your pot and throw it in. Make sure the rope is long enough for the pot to sit on the bottom. The pot will probably be pretty heavy if it's a decent one - think of using a sash weight or two to weight it down. Come back the next day and see if you've caught anything. On a busy pier you will have to tie it somewhere where no-one will notice it or it will get pilfered as people said earlier in the thread. People do low tide pots here, the rope is short and the rock it's tied to gets covered up at high tide. You will probably lose the odd pot when it gets snagged up.

Hope that helps!

[Geek]

Could someone give me step tp step guide on setting up the pot to hawling it up please.

 

Thanks

 

 

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[Geek]

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Actually scratch that, found this which more than covers the subject.

 

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