[quote=MailleMarine;49467] Can you use spider crabs for anything?
If you ever find out a commerical use for spider crabs, let me know as I will become a millionaire. You are probably dropping your pots in an area that is shallow and with little current. If the lobsters are there, then fine, but otherwise you are going to go through an awful large amount of bait to no avail. The thumbnail shows a tool I use to quickly remove obstinate spider crabs from my light gage scup pots. Ripping them out by force bends the hell out of my wire pots. It is a Fiskars model 7921 stainless anvil pruner. It has a place where you can attach a small float to it. Do not know about you, but I must have dropped mine, along with my gage, at least a dozen times over the side but have yet to lose either because of the float. Just be careful and do not clip your pot wires by accident. It will not do the pruners any good either.
74, 1000 watts of power, unbelievable! What are you trying to do, light up Newport! Next, you will be telling me that you are using halogen lighting as well. Here I was thinking a small LED light was all you would ever need. Still not crazy about going after squid one on one, but now this NBS form has gotten me curious as to the why this method of fishing is so addictive. I just might have to visit the Stonington commercial dock this evening and give it try myself. For what it is worth, I went on the web to look up squidding jigs and discovered others have come up with the idea of using internal LED lighted jigs. In addition, there is quite an assortment of lights that one can attach ones line. Another one of my brilliant brainstorm ideas down the drain!