Help me ID this Fish contraption??

[Little6pack]

my Dad inlaw found this in attic of his Cape Cod Home.

Looks like some type trap that you hang off boat or mooring??

CRAB TRAP?

 

[JOHNDEEREGN]

my Dad inlaw found this in attic of his Cape Cod Home.

Looks like some type trap that you hang off boat or mooring??

CRAB TRAP?

No Clue but it certainly looks like something of that nature.

Only thing I know about crabs I learned in High School

 

[Little6pack]

Only thing I know about crabs I learned in High School

:biggrin:

 

[benoitthegr8]

When I was young my parents took me to Amity Island, we had a summer rental. There was an old fishing boat down at the marina, I think the Orca... that had a contraption that looked similiar to that, the Captain Quint was a real a$$ but I asked him what it was used for. He told me it was used to kinda sandwich whole mossbunker to let drift behind the boat, and when used along with chumming.... It's actually an effective way to attract sharks.

 

[SGRIM]

I have never seen anything like that... Could it be for clamming?

 

[Little6pack]

I have never seen anything like that... Could it be for clamming?

When we go clamming on ole cape cod we use what looks like a metal rake with basket attached.. As you drag the rake you hear a chalkboard scrape than know You have a batch. You dig like crazy and 3 to 4 shells show up in basket.. After an hour your arms can get tired.

Of course I am looking at the Babes in bikini tops leaning over so I get EYE ACHES.

 

[davidf]

I use to go to clubs looking for clams and wound up catching crabs.:redface:

 

[terik.m]

i use to go to clubs looking for clams and wound up catching crabs.:redface:

:d

 

[notacarlo]

I have never seen anything like that... Could it be for clamming?

It looks like a scallop/clam rake. It would be dragged behind a boat in the shallows. Old tech. I could be wrong...hell I used to watch clammers use jet skis in the Niantic River. They would bury the keel in the mud at low tide and throttle it. It would blow a hole in the muck and then it was clam heaven.

 

[Little6pack]

It looks like a scallop/clam rake. It would be dragged behind a boat in the shallows. Old tech. I could be wrong...hell I used to watch clammers use jet skis in the Niantic River. They would bury the keel in the mud at low tide and throttle it. It would blow a hole in the muck and then it was clam heaven.

It prolly is a rake used with a boat, since this is heavy duty looking.