What tricks have you pulled on your crabbing friends?

[POLECAT]

I'll go first:

Not far from me was a friend (whose name I will not mention) and his wife Diane pulling their 30 topless traps. I watched as they were at the distant end of their string and pulled one of their traps that was close by.

Their trap was empty except for the bait. I attached a very large Jimmy to the floor of their trap with two zip ties and placed the trap back in the water.


Later when the trap was pulled and Diane tried to dump the crab in the cull box ..and couldn't... all we heard were loud shouts about "hurrying up", "get the damn thing out of the trap" and other such remarks.

Then we saw the trap handed over to Diane's husband who, upon closer inspection, let out a resounding HOOT!!!!!


We were later visited by Diane and what's his name and all had a good laugh. Surprisingly, the zip ties were not as obvious at first glance as one would think they should be.

That's (the short version of) my story and I'm sticking to it! What's yours?

[stingray]

Hey Jer. Check your pm. There's a good one comming but i can't disclose it just yet!:thumbup::D

[herefishyfishy]

We always tend to get a couple of chicken wings in our flat of chicken necks. We took 2 of the wings and fashioned them on a snood so it looked like a crab. Those chicken wings got dipped on every pass that day.
Let's see. I have tied a tin can onto my granddads handline when he wasnt looking. He thought he had a huge crab.
My granddad always pisses in a can and turns so noone can see him. Well, of course I always turn the boat so he is facing the shore or other boats. It's funny to see him spinning around in the boat attempting to not be seen. Oh and of course blowing the horn when someone is pissing.
When crabbing is good, I enjoy gunning the motor just as someone is about to dip just enough so they miss the crab.

[temgejr]

I was on my cousins boat the other day running a trot line. He was dipping and his dad was driving. All of a sudden his father jerked the wheel and in he went! Now that was funny!

[Ida Mae]

:hysterical::hysterical:Its all funny till someone gets hurt.............................................. ................Then its hilarious:roflguy::roflguy:

[crabby and son]

My cousin got drinking pretty good pretty early and fell asleep in the front of the boat. We took a medium, just caught crab with no claws and put it in his pants. I guess them legs got his attention as he almost came out of the boat. Don't have the heart to do that with a clawed crab..................Gary

[Capt.Nick]

Here's a dirty trick I saw a few years ago crabbing on the Gunpowder.I got to my favorite spot when I saw 3 parrallel sets of trotline crab buoys set by 1 crabber.They were set in such a way that the best area was tied up .I noticed he didn't run the lines on either side of the one he was running.The ones on the ends were "Dummy Buoys" not attached to a trotline.If I thought any of you were unscrupulous characters and would get any ideas from this,I would have never posted it.

[rgminer]

Was hand lining down in Virginia and noticed one of the lines really being tugged on. I let a friend pull it up. he thought he had a HUGE crab, but I suspected it was a smallish ray that had taken the bait. When he got it up the ray slapped the water with his wings, soaking my friend and the ray took off.......

[Boseafish]

Grab someone by the ankle from behind with a set of tongs and yell "loose crab, watch your legs". Good stuff!

[TimBass]

Caught two bushels of jimmies with guys from the firehouse, brought them into work that night. Later that night i saw one swimming around in our aquarium we have in the kitchen area. Later that night a female Paramedic came to me with a complaint that there was a crab in her toilet snappin away, It's hard to be keep a straight face when things like this happen. Practical jokes at the firehouse are ongoing thing , can't be thin skinned.


Timbass

[whitep]

I was in Maine last fall and went out on a lobster boat just to experience it. He pulled in one of the traps and it was full of hermit crabs one of his 'friends' had put in there. Must have been 50 of them.

[crabby and son]

Caught two bushels of jimmies with guys from the firehouse, brought them into work that night. Later that night i saw one swimming around in our aquarium we have in the kitchen area. Later that night a female Paramedic came to me with a complaint that there was a crab in her toilet snappin away, It's hard to be keep a straight face when things like this happen. Practical jokes at the firehouse are ongoing thing , can't be thin skinned.


Timbass

Got to watch out for those girls with crabs Tim.They will spread in the firehouse!.........Gary

[Burchbeer]

i HAVE NEVER DONE SUCH THINGS TO PEOPLE.

Is Alaska getting boring?

I am making a trip to Belair to find a customized boat with MON on it and really boobby trap it.

I put a 8 oz in line trolling sinker in one of my buds traps once.

I was MFed some for that.

Ever tied a knotted rope onto your buddies drive shaft?

I never have, just wondering.

Hope all is good in the high country JEr!

DB

[Butthead]

Ive put donuts and empty beer cans in friends boats that have left them at Lens....

Other friends loaned me a trotline in a time of need so when I rebaited it for them for a crabbing trip one morning, I made sure there was a few surprise "baits" tied in the middle of the line...

but my favorite was actually played on me....a very real looking halloween mask was left in one of my crab pots one morning...I still have the scar on my posterior from where i fell over backwards trying to get away from the "decomposing head" that was in my damn crab pot!! I thought the joke player was going to need to be rescusitated (sp?) he was laughing so hard....b*stard!!

:D

[Morsax]

but my favorite was actually played on me....a very real looking halloween mask was left in one of my crab pots one morning...I still have the scar on my posterior from where i fell over backwards trying to get away from the "decomposing head" that was in my damn crab pot!! I thought the joke player was going to need to be rescusitated (sp?) he was laughing so hard....b*stard!!

:D

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Wish I could have seen that one!
Well played!
I just may have to do something similar...

Hans