The best crab bait for traps is oily, fresh, and tough enough that a crab cannot tear it apart in an hour. Raw chicken necks and oily fish like menhaden or mackerel set the scent standard, and a commercial attractant layered on top of either one widens your odor plume without a cooler full of […]

A star crab trap, also called a pyramid crab trap, is a collapsible square-based wire pot that folds flat like a star for transport, drops to the bottom, and springs into a four-sided pyramid when its take-up lines are pulled tight. The style dates back decades on the Chesapeake and Gulf coasts, and it remains […]

A crab ring is a flat circular wire snare, usually two concentric hoops with mesh netting between them, that rests on the bottom with bait pinned in the center. It sits open so crabs walk onto it freely, then snaps upward into a basket the moment you pull the line, scooping up whatever was feeding […]