Originally Posted By: fever
Originally Posted By: stlhead
I was cleaned out on an over night soak as well and I had left a limit in the pots. They left the bait containers, opened, minus the chicken legs. Crab don't eat bones. Not that fast anyway. Can't prove it but my guess is a tribal member. Take our crab and make sure we don't catch any more by also taking the bait. Otherwise wouldn't it be more prudent to leave the bait so the owner would never know he'd been hit?


I hesitated to post on this topic but I have to use your claim and the claim of a co-worker as an example of "wanton rumor spreading". (Sort of like Wanton Waste of game.)

Short story, we use the exact GPS coords to set pots. Jim comes to work on Monday claiming the Indians stole his pot. bla bla bla...
Next week I go out there and there it is, right where we set it, empty, no crab, no bait, nothing but kelp.

Pots get robbed, but if you're going to start spreading rumors, at least have some facts. Nothing makes me more angry than people generalizing when they have no facts.

By the way, crab may not "eat" chicken bones, but I've pulled pots with crab still holding on to leg bones OUTSIDE the bait box. They are deft and strong creatures and will rob that bait box in short order.

They will also leave when there's no reason to hang around.

Regards,

Mike



Hey jackass...explain how crab opened the bait cages while you are at it. Why I bet while incarcerated the crab teamed up, dismantled everything, carted off all of the bones and then brought in a crew to put them all back together. These were clearly picked by a PERSON! Stop practicing wanton waste of brain cells. "I hesitated to post on this topic" you should have listened to your intuition instead of looking like an idiot. "Nothing makes me more angry than people generalizing when they have no facts" Oh yeah?
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