Danielson 24" Fold-Up Pacific Coast Crab Trap | Vinyl-Coated Steel Wire, Foldable, Easy Storage & Transport | 4 Entrance Doors & 2 Escape Rings | Blue

This Danielson FTC Fold-up Crab Trap is 24-inches square and made of coated thick gage wire. The corners of the side panels latch with loops of wire to the top and bottom. The top, sides and bottom are made of heavy metal plastic coated and are quality made to last. My trap did not come with a bait cage, so I will use a piece of stainless steel wire to thread bait on to and make it latch closed. I applied some hog rings where necessary. It has two escape rings for small crabs with one being designed for Crab removal. It has a fall-away rot-cord system to disable the trap should it not be retrievable, and this can be made more effective with one stainless steel hog ring. This coated trap will last for years and provide many crabs for the pot.I am just a recreational crabber and will only have a few traps and this one will last. For about $20 it is a good bargain delivered by Amazon Prime for free. Constructed of vinyl-coated steel wire. This trap measures 24-inches L x 24-inches W x 13-inches H and it folds flat for transport and storage, if you want to disassemble it down to shipping size. It has four entrance doors, which are 9.5" x 4.5", that close after the crab enters.When I received the trap, the plastic split cylinder hinges were not placed so the door would remain centered. The cylinders of split plastic were placed on the wires so the doors would slide to one side and leave an opening for escape. About 5 minutes of removing and replacing the split cylinders, solved this problem. This is an issue for Danielson's quality control of assembly to address, if they want their products to be better received by the buying customer. I still plan to buy a couple more of these Danielson crab traps as they seem to be the best I've found, for the price paid, $21.77, delivered from Amazon Prime.Since purchasing this trap and one of the Danielson Pacific Crab trap, I feel the Pacific is the better deal, basically the same trap with a glow bait cage and the top has a hinged opening for removal and baiting, also the doors are Glow coated also. Best deal and a better looking trap.

I have used several different crab pots over the years and these by far are the best for the money. I have spent hundreds of dollars on fancy heavy pots and I have had better luck with these.

I buy the standard, non deluxe Danielson crab trap because it is made out of thicker gauged metal. This makes it sturdier and heavier than the deluxe model. It lasts longer than the deluxe model. I have to modify it with bigger gates and a top gate to match the deluxe model; however, it is worth my time.I wish that Danielson would make their deluxe models out of thicker gauged metal like these. If they did, then I would buy more of them. Even if I had to pay $20.00 more for them.

Crab trap worked great. I added a little weight and cut the clips on one side of the door so I could use the breakaway string to make it legal in California.

I got these thinking they were a higher end trap, but after putting them together, I found that they were quite floppy. You can cinch down the hooks at the edges, but it only does so much, and makes it really hard to collapse them for storage. Plus, there is no separate door. To sort crabs you must either open an end (hard to do after cinching down the hooks) or reach through the small doors. These will catch crabs, I know guys that run them, but I sent them back and got nicer ones from bi-mart.

My nine year old son bought this with his birthday money. I have a very disappointed little boy. Initially we caught crabs (Maryland Blue), but each time he checked his trap some would be missing. After reading some reviews, I bought some weights to weigh down the doors. We thought the current was pulling a door open and the crabs were escaping. This didn't help.We decided to use this trap as a holding box and I bought another trap. After catching crab in the other trap, I zip tied the doors shut on the Danielson trap to make a holding cage. While transferring his crabs to the "holding cage" I noticed that even good size blue crabs (keepers) were escaping through the rather large square openings in this trap. No wonder we couldn't hold onto the crabs we were catching.This trap just doesn't work. Don't waste your money unless you are only interested in catching and keeping GIANT crabs.

I recently bought several of these because I have a smaller sized boat and needed to conserve space. These are good quality and fold up flat nicely. I stack 9 of them up against the wall of my boat and bungee cord them to keep them in place. Light weight, sturdy, quick to use, and more importantly... they caught me some crabs yesterday. Used in Oregon state and fish and wildlife officer checked them when I was coming in and confirmed they were good. Not sure about other states but I'm all set with these here in Oregon.

2022 update: California changed the rules. So this trap is no longer legal as is. (Gov't must have ownership of these trap manufacturers.) New rules dictate a 5" opening with rotten cotton. These are not. But if you clip the hooks off of one side and secure it with a single piece of legal cotton - then that whole side will open which meets the 5" diameter requirements.Original report:Took this out of bodega bay on the opening day of the Dungeness crab season. We had 5 cages. Some with weighted doors, some without. Just the bare cage with a bait container in the middle worked flawless.1. set up the rope to pull from the center2. use bait containers with the smallest holes (bags worked best - like fishnet stocking size)3. the leaded rope works great4. get a float that doesn't look like everyone else's. The spent helium containers were the most entertaining on the water.5. flags on the floats helped.pretty amazing trap.