Hi

" I honestly don't know why we don't all simply cut the lines of those we find. This would be the simplest and most effective way of solving this problem."

I said to myself if ever i picked up a pot bouy this is what i would do in the future, but another fourm member made a very good case for not doing this in as much as they will be probably be marked with a GPS position ,so not to much trouble to retreive and secondly if the pot is not found and left on the botton, crab goes in eats the bait then starves to death then the next crab goes in eats first crab then starves to death and so on and so on.

Dave.