Crab Snares?

[LOWRIDER60]

 I watched a YOUTUBE video about using crab snares for Dungeness Crabs so I thought why not use them for blue crabs when out on the boat ...Nothing on the DNR website about them , so I bought a few and modified them and also built a few from stuff I had lying around. Gonna use them on a stout boat rod and bait with chicken necks.

[Logical1]

You might want to check with DNR, I don't think they are legal in MD.

[LOWRIDER60]

Yes, Maryland allows the use of snares to catch crabs. However, there are other regulations for crabbing in Maryland, including:
Crab traps
Traps must be manually operated, have a flat bottom, and allow crabs to enter and exit. Automatically closing traps are illegal. Traps with more than four articulated sides and a flat bottom larger than 20 in by 15 in are not permitted. If you're using traps in the Chesapeake Bay, you must mark them with a buoy that has your DNRid unless they're attached to a boat, wharf, or pier.
Licenses
You need a recreational crabbing license if you're 16 or older and use legal gear to catch more than 24 male hard crabs. You also need a license if you use collapsible crab traps, net rings, eel pots for bait, seines, or trotlines. However, you don't need a license if you're under 16 and using collapsible crab traps or net rings, use handlines or dip nets, or are helping someone with a license. You can also crab without a license from docks, piers, bridges, boats, and shorelines 24 hours a day, 7 days a week if you use dip nets and handlines to catch up to 2 dozen male hard crabs and 1 dozen soft crabs and male peelers.
Time of day restrictions
There are different time of day restrictions for crabbing in different areas:
Rivers, creeks, and tributaries: Half an hour after sunrise to sunset from April and October to December 15, and half an hour before sunrise to sunset from May to September
Chesapeake Bay Mainstem: Half an hour after sunrise to 5 PM from April and October to December 15, and half an hour before sunrise to 5 PM from May to September

[jack1747]

https://www.bluecrab.info/forum/index.php?topic=94782.0  Look at reply #6..  "Folks,

Just heard back from the MD DNR ... the pertinent exchange was:

Me:
I think I've read all of the MD regulations for recreational crabbing. There is a list of the legal methods for catching blue crabs and an implication that these are the ONLY methods that are legal. I suppose I could stop there and ask if that assumption is accurate. (... there was more but not relevant to this thread)


Keith Lockwood:
Hello Jim, you are correct crab snares are not legal in Maryland, the listed gears are the only legal gears. "

Search "snares". They have been discussed many times on the forum.

[Logical1]

I saw snares on a video years ago and I asked DNR about them. I got the same answer you did Jack. I didn't think they had changed their stance on it.

[Wallco99]

I watched a YOUTUBE video about using crab snares for Dungeness Crabs so I thought why not use them for blue crabs when out on the boat ...Nothing on the DNR website about them , so I bought a few and modified them and also built a few from stuff I had lying around. Gonna use them on a stout boat rod and bait with chicken necks.

Who the [Sam Hill] are you, "MacGyver"? Just get some damned traps or trotline already. Why dick around on the fringes of legality, when there are so many better, permissible ways to catch crabs than that.

[U812OHNO]

I ran out of time and had to get up and leave, I couldn't finish the rest of your movie Rick.  Exactly how many pairs of sunglasses does that guy have on??

[Wallco99]

I ran out of time and had to get up and leave, I couldn't finish the rest of your movie Rick.  Exactly how many pairs of sunglasses does that guy have on??

I think it was 408, before they went to commercial.

[U812OHNO]

 

[Harford Crabber]

Since snares would hold them so they can't come and go once caught, that would eliminate them from being legal for recreational use.

And something else that rarely happens...  I agree with Rick-Wallco on this one.  

[Harford Crabber]

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[Stabilizer]

This looks like a good candidate for squirrel bait...

[Wallco99]

This looks like a good candidate for squirrel bait...

Or just NUTS! Forget the squirrel.