Crab Pot Rope Danger

[Tailortaker]

Firstly I mean no offence to anyone but how much rope do poeple need on their pots without over doing it. I was driving along in the tinnie this morning and someone had their crab pots inside the markers across the chanel. I noticed them and went to pass about 5m away from the float (they were close together) than relised that i had collected the rope with my motor. It had wraped around the prop numerous times. This occured about half way between high and low tide. I looked at the other floats and noticed that they all had metres and metres of slack line floting around them. When I was returning I noticed another boat pulled up untangling the same rope from his prop. Is this right? I think that both the position of the pots and the length of the rope is out right dangerous...
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[rayken1938]

And they winge that their pots are stolen when you have to cut the rope to untangle your prop.
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[ozbee]

need a bigger motor problem disappears, truly you would think they were on deadliest catch . thing is a lot of people use nylon mesh pots now. they tend to wash away with the tide trouble is lots of people think they float away hence they get longer and longer.

[kingtin]

2 metres is a lot of rope when you see it floating on the surface. I threw a wobbly once when I saw a heap of rope surplus, but if you think about it................if they dropped the pots at high with a metre of rope to spare, then at low you could have 3 metres of slack. No way to avoid it really if you're leaving 'em overnight or all day.

You won't find a problem with mine though, as I sink the buggers...............and never where there's traffic. Come to think of it, I've never put a pot where there's traffic. .............take a look at schultz (nudgee).............it's like a bloody slalom course some days

kev
When I nipped into a McDonald's to use their toilets the other day, I was confronted by a spotty teenager mopping up vomit just by the lavatory. On the back of his T-shirt it said "I'm Lovin' it!"............... Funny, but the poor sod's face told a different story.

[Tailortaker]

The only problem is kingtin that there was way more than three metres slack. I passed at lest 5metres from the float and still caught it, when I looked at the others the rope was afloat everywhere.
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[Horse]

I do not think it unreasonable to have 5m of rope on a pot. At low tide there will be some slack. I always crimp a net lead or wrap some sheet lead on my lines to keep them down

Cheers

Neil

[Flattie Assassin]

Great idea horse.

[lippa]

exactly horse, a little lead around the rope helps so much, its not funny.
i normally crab the bay so i have 15- 20 odd meters on my pots. if i crab an area like the passage in 3-5m i tie up excess rope, and wrap a peice of lead around it. problem solved!

cheers

lippa

[Braddles]

Firstly I mean no offence to anyone but how much rope do poeple need on their pots without over doing it. I was driving along in the tinnie this morning and someone had their crab pots inside the markers across the chanel. I noticed them and went to pass about 5m away from the float (they were close together) than relised that i had collected the rope with my motor. It had wraped around the prop numerous times. This occured about half way between high and low tide. I looked at the other floats and noticed that they all had metres and metres of slack line floting around them. When I was returning I noticed another boat pulled up untangling the same rope from his prop. Is this right? I think that both the position of the pots and the length of the rope is out right dangerous...

T/T I agree with you mate; 5m of rope may not be excessive in some instances, but if it obstructing or in a channel - then they deserve to loose their pots - bloody twits. (And no I am not having a go at the random drifted pot which is an accident / no fault of the owner - but the majority are not accidental drifters).

[oldboot]

If they are obstructing a chanel and therfore causing a danger to shipping they deserve to be prosecuted.

Most irresponsible to set pots in such a fashon.

cheers

[Freeeedom]

Agree - they can be a real nuisance at times. I'd like to meet the twit who drops his pots in the channel entrance at Spinnaker Sound one day. Simple solution - never use a rope that floats on your crab pots
Cheers Freeeedom

[birko]

Mate, I understand what you are saying but up here in mackay we have a 6 mtere tide variance at times so there is not a great deal of choice when it comes to the lenght of rope. I like the lead strip idea though as I dont like the though of being a pain in the butt to someone else due to the long rope.

[Rodman]

Guys
What really gets my goat is when someone cuts the rope with their prop and then the line floats on the surface without the float and you run over the rope and it tangles in your prop.

Ken

[Foxy4]

Like Horse, I also used lead along my lines to make them stay under. But it is not worth the hassle nowadays. They will still steal you pots no matter how much rope you have or don't have on them.

Kingtin has a real good idea.

[TheRealAndy]

If I see a pot in a channel (usually cabbage tree for me) with the rope flaoting in the way of boats I pick the thing up and throw it out of the channel. Done it before and am happy to do it again.