Just carry a long, sharp knife on board. Chesapeake Bay is littered with
crab pots, and many of them are placed nowhere near areas set aside for
them. If I catch one and it prop-wraps me, I just cut it loose.

Ditto here, in of all places, the ICW..... Sometimes I feel like the captain
of
a mine sweeper.....




Hey,

I have no problem with "deep sixing" a crab or lobster trap where it shouldnt
be....screw the "owner" for being a prick.....

BUTTTTTTTTT.....

please dont just cut the line off a such a trap and leave.....

that trap will CONTINUE to trap and kill (for no good reason) marine life until
it falls apart.....for YEARS perhaps.....

If your ****ed that you got fouled in a trap and want to "show the owner a
lesson".....at least pull the trap up and tear the SOB thing apart before you
throw it back in the water.....no use making the innocent marine life suffer
for no good reason as well!

take care

Blll