What kind of rope as well as what size rope do you use on your crab pots? Thanks Guys!
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Here's what i tell folks to do, use a 600' shot sinking rope from your buoy down to a floating rope on your pots, the floating rope stays off the bottom and helps your pots from hanging down on the bottom. I suggest using 5/16" size rope but a size lighter or heavier won't hurt a thing and it depends on how much room you have to stow the rope when not fishing. I stock a high strength rope in both sinking(non leaded) and floating styles and this year will also have a soft lay braided sinking rope.
OK here's what i suggest for rigging,
600' sinking rope from buoy to first pot
600' floating rope between pots, if you space your pots at 100' apart you will use 400' of the floating rope then you will have another 200' of floating rope to add to your buoyline for a total of 800' of buoyline and using my 25% extra buoyline theory you can safely fish down to aprox 650' for shrimp, the folks in Valdez fish shallower so you gotta adjust the buoyline for that area but you still need 25-30% more buoyline than depth your fishing.sigpic
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Originally posted by kgpcr View PostWhat do you use for shrimp pot lines?
100' of 5/16" poly (floats) between pots with 100' after the last pot then 600' of 5/16" sinking rope to buoys.sigpic
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Or you could just listen to that potbuilder guy above.sigpic
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Sinking Leadline & Poly
I use sinking lead line for the areas under 200 feet depth. On the areas over 200 feet I use yellow poly all the way. About 80 feet down I tie two huge truck axle bearings on the line to weight it down so it cant float on top and it keeps the bouy straight.How stupid is it to be wasting tons of salmon and halibut as bycatch in the Bering Sea and then have the coastal villages hollaring they have no food? It's got to stop!
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Originally posted by fred_styles View PostBetween the pots? Can you elaborate?
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Originally posted by Daveinthebush View PostThanks Potbuilder. Sometimes I only have time for a quick response between teaching kids.
Sorry i kind of hyjacked that question, just couldn't help myself.
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Thanks, Steve/Potbuilder, but...
I guess the extra 25% is so if your pots slide down hill you have some slack to keep from pulling your buoy under and losing your pots? I've been running no more than 2 pots on a buoy because I lost a nice pot with a too-small bouy and no slack. I use bigger bouys now
So, I like the extra line idea, but where I am out of Valdez, there is always some slope and I would worry about losing 5 pots unless I had a humongous buoy!
Another question: do you put any weight in each pot??:confused:
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