Before placing the bait in the crab pot, players need to craft or buy this trap. To do this, players must reach Fishing level 3. They can buy it from Willy's Fish Shop for 1500 gold. Also, it can ...

Abandoned crab pots can be a serious issue in the Chesapeake Bay. As long as there is bait in them they will continue to catch crabs. A dead crab in an abandoned pot becomes bait. But a recent ...

Sports How and where to crab: ‘No, they don’t like smelly fish’ bait With the recreational crab season open, here are tips and information to help you succeed. By Mike Benbow Special to The ...

It still uses horseshoe crabs but far fewer than the traditional practice of quartering a crab and placing it in a conch or eel pot. Targett began searching for an alternative bait in 2000, a time ...

PUGET SOUND — Pursuing Dungeness crab is a fun summertime activity whether you’re setting a pot from a pier or boat or wading along a beachfront with dip net in hand. To boost the excitement ...

Who “invented” the crab pot is a topic that still stirs vigorous debate. But not as much as the color of the vinyl-coated pots that are supplanting the traditional galvanized pots. Old-timers ...

Warren and Karen Unkert know there are loads of loose crab traps, or “ghost pots,” rusting on the bottom of South Jersey’s bays.

On its final voyage, the Destination was headed off to the start of the snow-crab harvest with a big deck load that included more than 3,000 pounds of bait and some 200 crab pots.