Good eye! That's just laziness on my part in post. Since I've been wanting to watch them in real time, I just do a standard color correction in the nle in the beginning and don't bother changing it for the shallows. So it's just set to bring back the reds and yellows at depth. I use a dome on the gopro. You could add a cc30R behind that for color, but nowadays easier to do it in post without having to worry about another layer of glass or plastic in front of the lens and sensor.

@@BobsUnderwaterCrabHouse-so2wo ahh good to know, that easy enough to do. Thinking I might try this with my trap and older GoPro later this year. Always curious to see what they're up to and how the trap is working. I've got a round trap and the doors are just the two vertical bars so hopefully less issues getting their claws stuck when entering. Loving the videos!

Yeah, it's always interesting. I dropped an expendable old gopro in a shrimp pot this season amd saw some cool stuff. Since then, my outboard crapped out so I haven't been able do do any drops at all. Hope to get back out for the winter season to finally do all the tests I had planned. Good luck and have fun!

It's an old one! Pretty sure it's a Danielson, but a couple companies make folding traps like this.

It's canned Chub Mackerel. This was Bumblebee brand but there are others. Costs about the same as cat food but is pure fish

Ring as in a circular pot or ring that closes when you lift? I've been planning on trying all kinds of tests with the cameras, but I've had boat engine problems since before the season started. Very frustrating! Grew up on blue claws, love em, and they're great for weight loss since you burn calories trying to dig out the meat, lol. So I'm a huge fan of our meatier west coast crabs!

Canned Chub mackerel

Mackerel. Less than a buck a can and you can split it to work for at least two drops

I sometimes partially freeze the cans if it's going to be a long soak so it lasts longer

Yep, doors are a place to start! I snipped off the horizontals on two doirs as my first test when the season opened this past weekend... and my outboard quit right after I dropped. Been working on that but will check video to see if the one male that climbed in during the short drop had any door issues. I'll be testing door decoration, too, with colors. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! I'll talk about adding mesh in the next video. Spoiler alert, the Fish & Wildlife folks say it's against gear regs to use a smaller mesh even just on the doors.

Thanks! Crab season opens again in a couple weeks.

Yes! I crabbed for decades before the technology made it possible to get a peek at what goes on down there while the pots are soaking. Before it was just guessing. I'm really looking forward to the start of this season when I can run a bunch of bait, gear and other tests to learn more and see more behaviors. Thanks for taking the time to comment, and happy crabbing!

Thanks, Badass! I'm working on it. Between day job and rigging out a "new to me" skiff as a Northwest crabbing and shrimping and filming platform I'm way behind. But I'll catch up asap.

Thanks! Glad you liked it. Will do.

I like it! We call this the Emerald Sea so inside the cage can be Emerald City. I am not gonna imitate those voices these days, though...

I hope so! I'm about to watch an hour myself so I can remember where I left off and make a new episode today. Thanks for watching!

Aw, c'mon, no cliffhangers?

Thanks! That would likely solve the issue, but I've got concerns about the regulations re minimum mesh size. I'm checking with our fish and wildlife dept. And yes, been lots of brainstorming! Looking forward to testing some modifications.

@@BobsUnderwaterCrabHouse-so2wo Can't have any mesh on it smaller though? Not even a 2x4 bit covering the top half of a door? Everything else would be big enough. Hm... Interesting though what would be a breach of rules and what wouldn't... I wouldn't want you to find out the expensive way. Looking forward to seeing your channel grow and evolve. Crabs are already the peak evolution as I'm sure you know...

I can't site a specific line in the rules, but I have the question in to a top guy at WDFW to see if my assumption is correct. Yes, crabs are amazing! Wonderful variety of species and adaptations. Some of my favorites are the decorator crabs that put anemones on themselves for protection.

@@BobsUnderwaterCrabHouse-so2wo Indeed very clever. +10 poison defence.

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Yes, releases will become much more regular pretty soon. It's surprising how tough it is to sit down and do one of these hobby videos when your day job is to make videos. Go figure. Thanks for your patience, and for the request!

On our scale, sure. Although I've met some humans who'd probably score on the low end of the crustacean spectrum. Very well adapted to what they do. But I'm also hoping to test whether they're smarter than we think if I can get permission to tag some. I'm wondering if the females learn to go to traps for an easy meal since they're always released.

There are several parts to each drop with narration, 1.1, 1.2 etc. There are also long versions with no narration. Thanks for watching!

💯 Philly!

@@BobsUnderwaterCrabHouse-so2wo South Jersey. Both of my parents are from Philly so I say wooder.

Yep, California, Oregon and Washington have a pretty healthy Dungeness fishery. CA and Oregon have some issues with entangling whales and some shutdowns due to harmful algal blooms (HABs), but you're probably getting some fresh crab! Alaska snow crabs are in trouble, but the king crabs seem to be doing well. Those are some big meaty legs!

Hotel Crabifornia. Gonna use that! In reality, they take the hotel elevator up to the surface and then get released because they're too small or they're females.

Haha, I had same reaction as I watched the footage the first time i put a camera in there! So I figured I'd put it on youtube in case there were others out there with the same unknown fascination. I'm thinking we were all the kinds of kids who could stare at fish tanks for a long time. Close to Baltimore! I grew up staring at fish tanks in Philly.

@@BobsUnderwaterCrabHouse-so2wo it was the "wooter" that gave ya away 😯

Yep. It's been interesting having a career that has me around water and seeing folks' reaction all over the world to my pronunciation of it. "You want us to follow you into the what, the 'wooder'?"

Great, thanks! Yes, there's something compelling about being able to see what's normally hidden.

Nah, just lots of experience. If it had been a big male acting territorial we would have carefully retreated at the beginning.

Me too!

More vertical bars would likely make the mesh too small for regs, though.