Ok I can admit it, I really don't know if its a fact or not. I,m told that a dungness crab will not go around the corner of a square trap to find a way into it. I don't know who comes up with this stuff but sooner or later somebody tells it as if a fact. This time it was a marine biologist at Newport. I have to wonder if his degree came from one of those matchbook degree mills but I didn't want to ask. I walked around for a while thinking I would ask a commercial crab fisherman.
But the more I thought about it I didn't think I wanted to have anybody fall overboard from laughing so I left the dock. Is there anyone out there that has heard this before? Is it some old wivestail? If its true there are sure a lot of folks that bought square traps at the Portland Sportsman Show that are going to be wasting their time in the bays.