Does fisheries ever measure the mesh on pots when they check you? I have been looking for mesh (Ladner) pots and just about all I can find are 1 1/2" stretch mesh. One store tells me they are too small-regs say 1 3/4"- but everyone else says they are legal, and one even says they had someone from fisheries come in and measure and say they are legal. When I measured those pots being as generous as possible I could barely get 1 5/8". Almost all of the traps I've seen people using are the smaller mesh. Am I worrying too much?

I ended up getting some of the big rigid ones that I knew were legal just to be safe. I would still like to get a couple stackable ones, but I'll just have to be careful. I did call WDFW and was pretty much told it would just depend on the mood of the officer that checked me.

A friend came up from Oregon with the pop-up, mesh style pots the year before last. I believe he got a warning for using them.

I use the lower profile, square style pots.