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« on: June 25, 2019, 03:02:14 PM » |
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Has anyone used this and can verify that it catches more crabs?
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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2019, 05:31:02 PM » |
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I have the blue bottle. I would lean towards that it works. I had chicken marinated with this stuff and frozen. I noticed that with plain chicken, the crabs aren't attracted to it after a while (like the ocean washes away the odor). If I marinade the chicken with this stuff and froze it, then when it's in the water, the attractant slowly leeches out of the bait, and I feel this keeps the crabs coming.
I used it and I did catch 1 keeper (a lot of shorts). I didn't have a trap that did not have the attractant so I don't have a control. Maybe it's the placeabo effect.
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2019, 08:44:11 PM » |
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Has anyone used this and can verify that it catches more crabs?
MOECRABS CAN!!!!! |
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2019, 08:46:04 PM » |
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I have the blue bottle. I would lean towards that it works. I had chicken marinated with this stuff and frozen. I noticed that with plain chicken, the crabs aren't attracted to it after a while (like the ocean washes away the odor). If I marinade the chicken with this stuff and froze it, then when it's in the water, the attractant slowly leeches out of the bait, and I feel this keeps the crabs coming.
I used it and I did catch 1 keeper (a lot of shorts). I didn't have a trap that did not have the attractant so I don't have a control. Maybe it's the placeabo effect.
OK, so 1 crab means YES?? |
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2019, 11:55:04 PM » |
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Clowns! You're supposed to drink the bottle of attractant?! Then go crabbing!
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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2019, 11:59:16 PM » |
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No that's blue curacao!
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« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2019, 01:52:55 AM » |
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IMHO most crab "attractants" don't attract more crabs but they do attract "crabbers"
If you absolutely have to use a liquid "attractant", try soaking chicken necks in bunker(menhaden) oil.
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« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2019, 12:27:50 PM » |
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If you absolutely have to use a liquid "attractant", try soaking chicken necks in bunker(menhaden) oil.[/color][/font][/size][/b]
I agree with this. When I get my chicken necks and bunker ready for crabbing, I put both together and wrap them up so that the chicken can absorb the bunker blood. |
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« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2019, 02:23:16 PM » |
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At slack tide (slow bite) I have dropped dry cat food around handlines on pier, I have to say I think it helped a few times, but I could be WRONG and if so I know I will hear about it HERE!
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« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2019, 03:13:20 PM » |
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Tried it twice and noticed no better results than untreated bait....
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« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2019, 05:04:36 PM » |
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At slack tide (slow bite) I have dropped dry cat food around handlines on pier, I have to say I think it helped a few times, but I could be WRONG and if so I know I will hear about it HERE!
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« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2019, 09:22:24 PM » |
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If you make up a secret bait or concoction to increase your catch, by the time you think you have it figured out the crabs will make a liar out of you the very next trip.
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« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2019, 02:36:43 PM » |
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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2019, 02:49:04 PM » |
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OK, so 1 crab means YES??
Actually I will say it works, as it was written on the bottle, you can just soak a rag with it. I had a ring trap with a nanofiber towel soaked with the stuff and shorts did come...which means crabs DO smell it and are attracted to it. |
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« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2019, 05:58:00 PM » |
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Years ago I used a paste called Chicken Blood from Walmart that was a dough permeated with chicken blood that was supposed to catch more fish. I put it in bunker and chicken backs.Caught 3 times the crabs with it compared to plain bait.The problem was that the crabs that ate the chicken blood had a metallic taste to them.
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« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2019, 10:13:14 PM » |
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Last week I used some on chicken that I marinated and had frozen from a previous trip. 5 traps with those pieces and 5 traps with fresh chicken purchased the night before. The fresh chicken out-crabbed the crab fuel chicken 3 to 1. Not exactly scientific since the frozen vs fresh was a confounding variable but it surprised me.
A better experiment would have been to use fresh marinated vs non marinated.
Seems to me like the best crab attractant is fresh bait.
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« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2019, 07:39:22 AM » |
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IMHO most crab "attractants" don't attract more crabs but they do attract "crabbers"
You know that’s the truth. |
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« Reply #17 on: August 04, 2019, 02:40:14 PM » |
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IMHO most crab "attractants" don't attract more crabs but they do attract "crabbers"
If you absolutely have to use a liquid "attractant", try soaking chicken necks in bunker(menhaden) oil.
I did that once on my troutline. What a stinking mess . If you get it on your boat it is very slippery, hard to clean and what a rancid smell. I soaked the whole line. Bait and all. Didn't catch any more crabs either. |
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« Reply #18 on: August 04, 2019, 09:05:37 PM » |
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It may have worked if you tried a trotline instead. It's meant to attract crabs, not trout.
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« Reply #19 on: August 04, 2019, 09:36:01 PM » |
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It may have worked if you tried a trotline instead. It's meant to attract crabs, not trout.
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