✅ SOLVED Worlds smallest crab pot? Lol

[Alex Burke]

A friend of mine found this at the beach near Davenport, near Santa Cruz Ca. It even has a tiny working hatch with a hook to keep cage closed. Could it be for live bait in a real trap or crab pot. It's so tiny and homemade looking I can't make any sense of it. It makes me laugh just looking at it, so strange lol. I put a quarter in for scale it's about 5x2x2 and angled in places.

 

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[AU Seeker]

I think it's a "chum basket" possibly homemade, similar to the one below...

Chum Basket

 

[Alex Burke]

ah ha nice ID thank you! Do you think they put those inside the cage to draw the crab in? I thought they used more bait from watching tv shows lol.

 

[AU Seeker]

Chum is used mostly for attracting fish, but one of could be used in a crab pot as well for containing the bait, most commercial crab pots have a cage/basket built into them for the bait, usually for crab you want the bait to be a whole piece/s of fish, chicken, etc. rather than like chum that is ground up and frozen when used in a chum basket.

 

[Ruchman]

Not to be a Debbie downer, think its a crab snare. Attach it to your fishing rod and there claws get stuck.

 

[AU Seeker]

Not to be a Debbie downer, think its a crab snare. Attach it to your fishing rod and there claws get stuck. View attachment 809083

Ah-ha, great ID , I never used or seen one of these crab snares, maybe it's a west coast thing but I would rather set a crab pot, go fishing and come back later for a lot more crabs!!!

 

[Alex Burke]

Wow I guess it is, the wires make sense now, they are like snares. It does still have a chum basket so AU was close. Thank you Ruchman.

 

[Ruchman]

There in just about every tackle shop on the west coast, with the design I'm not surprised people loose them all the time. see a lot of people using them though

 

[kuger]

...there is a very similar bird trap/snare as well....... Called a Bal chatri(this one is properly id ed however)