Floats...

[John WAsmuth]

Texas regs say the floats have  "Must be marked with a white floating buoy not less than 6 inches in height, 6 inches in length and 6 inches in width, bearing a 2-inch wide center stripe of contrasting color, attached to the crab trap". I cant seem to find floats that match this. The traps, commercial types, I found down at walmart in Port Lavaca, but noone seems to be able to tell me where to get the floats from. Any ideas?

[capt. ron]

Get a regular white styrofoam float and paint your favorite color ring.  That should work.

Ronnie

[John WAsmuth]

Roger that but from where sir? Is there a place on line that sells them?

[capt. ron]

How close are ya to the gulf?

Ronnie

[John WAsmuth]

3 hours to corpus or port lavaca each way so we dont get down there but about once every month and a half and most people arent real talkative and wont tell you much about where to get things, real quick to tell you where to go though......

[CraigFos]

They sell them at Academy in the Houston Galveston area.  You may try your area store to see if they have them. 

[John WAsmuth]

Super! Thanks, I did finally find a place on the net: http://www.brunsonnet.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=57
That has them for pretty cheap. But Soons we can we are heading down to Corpus and see if the Academy has them there. It will be a couple weeks, have to move the daughter back to college at San Angelo State this weekend.

[John WAsmuth]

Just to add, I am really glad I found this site, everyone here has been so helpful with everything. Thanks to all. Salute!