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Stone Crab Traps

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Is there anywhere locally you buy stone crab traps?

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Crook and Crook in Coconut Grove or Cudjoe Sales in Keys is where I bought mine. Best pricing I could find.
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Thanks to you both!

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Here's an answer with a question. About a year ago I bought two crab traps at the Wal-Mart in Crawfordville. Back in the fall I had them out near the light house and caught 3 stone crabs, they weren't in season so I put them back. What makes stone crab traps different from blue crab traps? They seem to catch either species.
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In North Carolina, I caught stone crabs in a blue crab trap. So I really don't know the answer of why stone crab traps are special.
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Stone crab traps have the entry hole on top of the trap and they're usually weighted where I believe the entry holes for blue crab traps are on the sides.
I bet I built a couple thousand stone crab traps years ago.. got a missing finger for my efforts :cry:
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A legal stone crab trap in Florida must have a degradable panel and an escape hole for smaller crabs. The requirements seem designed to prevent bykill of small crabs and allow larger crabs to escape lost or abandoned traps.
https://myfwc.com/fishing/saltwater/rec ... tone-crab/
Is the link to the FWC requirements.


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Mckayaker wrote: April 26th, 2021, 2:18 pm A legal stone crab trap in Florida must have a degradable panel and an escape hole for smaller crabs.
Almost the same for blue crab traps, but blue traps need to have 3 escape rings.
https://myfwc.com/fishing/saltwater/rec ... blue-crab/
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Juan wrote: April 26th, 2021, 2:06 pm I bet I built a couple thousand stone crab traps years ago.. got a missing finger for my efforts :cry:
Was the missing finger from the trap construction or from a stone crab?
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Trap construction and I wasn't alone. There were others who lost digits too.
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