Crab Pot

Crab Pot
Place it in the water, load it with bait, and check the next day to see if you've caught anything. Works in streams, lakes, and the ocean.
Information
Source	Crafting
Sell Price	data-sort-value="50">50g
Crafting
Recipe Source	Fishing Level 3
Ingredients	Wood (40) Iron Bar (3)
Trapper Ingredients	Wood (25) Copper Bar (2)

Crab pots are floated on the shores of bodies of water (lakes, ponds, rivers, or the ocean) and primed with bait in order to catch fish. Any type of bait (standard Bait, Wild Bait, Magnet) can be used in a crab pot, but there is no benefit to using specialized types of bait: crab pots never produce double fish or treasure. Players with the Luremaster profession don't need to add bait.

Harvesting a crab pot gives 5 Fishing experience points, even if trash is caught or the item is normally a Beach forage item. Fish caught with crab pots also count towards the four fishing achievements (Fisherman, Ol' Mariner, Master Angler, and Mother Catch).

Crab pots can be crafted, purchased for data-sort-value="1500">1,500g at Willy's Fish Shop once you've reached fishing skill level 3, and three are rewarded for completing the Crab Pot Bundle in the Fish Tank.

Stages

Crab pots have three stages, which can be distinguished visually:

Image	Description
	The crab pot is empty. If you don't have the Luremaster profession, you need to add bait before it will catch anything.
	The crab pot contains bait, and will catch something the next morning. (If you have the Luremaster profession, you'll see the 'empty' image instead.)
	The crab pot caught something and can be harvested. An icon of what it contains will appear above the crab pot.

Catch

The day after placing a crab pot, the following items can be found in it:

Anywhere

Unless you have the Mariner profession, the following trash items can be obtained by putting a crab pot in any type of water, which includes the river, the lake and the ocean. The chance of trash appearing is 38%, regardless of luck or fishing skill; all trash items are equally likely to appear. Trash can be recycled into useful items.

Image	Name	Description	Produced from Recycling
	Trash	It's junk.	Stone (1-3)  49%
			Coal (1-3)  30%
			Iron Ore (1-3)  21%
	Driftwood	A piece of wood from the sea.	Wood (1-3)  75%
			Coal (1-3)  25%
	Soggy Newspaper	This is trash.	Torch (3)  90%
			Cloth (1)  10%
	Broken CD	It's a JojaNet 2.0 trial CD. They must've made a billion of these things.	Refined Quartz (1)
	Broken Glasses	It looks like someone lost their glasses. They're busted.	Refined Quartz (1)

Ocean

The following creatures can be caught by putting a crab pot in the water anywhere at The Beach. Note that only normal quality fish or items can be caught with a crab pot.

Image	Name	Description	Sell Price	Trap Chance		Used In
				Mariner	Non-Mariner
	Lobster	A large ocean-dwelling crustacean with a strong tail.	data-sort-value="120">120g	14%	3%	Lobster Bisque "Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle "Wanted Lobster" Quest Elliott (Loved Gift)
	Clam	There's a chewy little guy in there...	data-sort-value="50">50g	14%	12%	Chowder Speed-Gro Crab Pot Bundle
	Crab	A marine crustacean with two powerful pincers.	data-sort-value="100">100g	14%	6%	Crab Cakes "Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle
	Cockle	A common saltwater clam.	data-sort-value="50">50g	14%	17%	"Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle
	Mussel	A common bivalve that often lives in clusters.	data-sort-value="30">30g	14%	14%	Fish Stew "Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle
	Shrimp	A scavenger that feeds off the ocean floor. Widely prized for its meat.	data-sort-value="60">60g	14%	5%	Tom Kha Soup "Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle
	Oyster	Constantly filters water to find food. In the process, it removes dangerous toxins from the environment.	data-sort-value="40">40g	14%	3%	"Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle

Freshwater

The following creatures can be caught by putting a crab pot into any freshwater location. Note that only normal quality fish can be caught with a crab pot.

Freshwater locations include nearly any body of water other than the Beach. In particular, the Farm Ponds will yield Crab Pot Fish, even ponds where a Fishing Rod only yields trash. Crab Pots also work in all underground locations (e.g. The Sewers). The pools found in the Mines are the only exceptions: Crab Pots can be placed in the mine’s pools, but they will vanish and be permanently lost once you leave the level. Also, Crab Pots can not be placed into fountains (e.g. in Pelican Town or outside the Spa).

Image	Name	Description	Sell Price	Trap Chance		Used In
				Mariner	Non-Mariner
	Crayfish	A small freshwater relative of the lobster.	data-sort-value="75">75g	33%	28%	Fish Stew "Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle
	Snail	A wide-ranging mollusc that lives in a spiral shell.	data-sort-value="65">65g	33%	13%	Escargot "Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle Vincent (loved Gift)
	Periwinkle	A tiny freshwater snail that lives in a blue shell.	data-sort-value="20">20g	33%	21%	Strange Bun Fish Stew "Any fish" Recipes Crab Pot Bundle

Tips

• Because the freshwater catches sell for a low value and can be easily caught in large quantities, they're ideal choices for turning into Quality Fertilizer. During the early game you may want to put a handful of crab pots in your farm's ponds (where they're easily accessible to harvest daily) so that you can make fertilizer out of their catches and net a bit of fishing experience.
• When the Luremaster Profession is taken, it becomes very easy to accidentally pick up your crab pots immediately after harvesting them. In order to prevent this from happening, a simple set of steps must be followed; First, clear your entire inventory bar. Secondly, select the furthest right empty inventory space. Finally, only harvest the crab pots via left-clicking. So long as you do not right click, and the selected inventory slot is not filled by harvested trash or fish, your character will not pick up the crab pots!
  • Without the profession, the easiest way is to have the bait selected as you empty the crab pots, easily baiting the pot right away. Baited Crab Pots cannot be picked up.

Productivity

The average value of selling recycled trash given a equal distribution of obtaining each of the trash items is ~41g. It can be valued at e.g. 71 g when using the buying price of 150g(instead of 15g) for coal. The below tables assume the lower value of 41g.

Any catch below the value of 75 g can be turned into sashimi and sold for 75g (exept for clams which are not recognized as fish and therefore also don't benifit from the angler profession).

Average profit/day

These values are obtained by adding up the average profit share of each item (grouped by location).

The prices do not include the price of bait (to do so, deduct 5g of each value).

Location	Profession		Profession w/ shashimi
	Mariner	Angler	Mariner	Angler
Ocean	data-sort-value="64.29">64.29g	data-sort-value="62.15">62.15g	data-sort-value="81.43">81.43g	data-sort-value="66.80">66.8g
Freshwater	data-sort-value="55.33">55.33g	data-sort-value="66.67">66.67g	data-sort-value="75">75g	data-sort-value="76.12">76.12g

Share of profit for each item

The formula for average profit is (Chance * Value) with a min-value of 75g when using the sashimi trick.

These values provide the base to calculate the average profit/day for each circumstance (the table above).

Image	Name	Origin	Trap Chance		Sell Price		Average Profit		Average Profit with sashimi
			Mariner	Non-Mariner	Normal	Angler	Normal	Angler	Normal	Angler
	Lobster	Ocean	14.29%	3%	data-sort-value="120">120g	data-sort-value="180">180g	data-sort-value="17.14">17.14g	data-sort-value="5.40">5.4g	data-sort-value="17.14">17.14g	data-sort-value="5.40">5.4g
	Clam	Ocean	14.29%	12%	data-sort-value="50">50g	data-sort-value="50">50g	data-sort-value="7.14">7.14g	data-sort-value="6">6g	data-sort-value="7.14">7.14g	data-sort-value="6">6g
	Crab	Ocean	14.29%	6%	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="14.29">14.29g	data-sort-value="9">9g	data-sort-value="14.29">14.29g	data-sort-value="9">9g
	Cockle	Ocean	14.29%	17%	data-sort-value="50">50g	data-sort-value="75">75g	data-sort-value="7.14">7.14g	data-sort-value="12.75">12.75g	data-sort-value="10.71">10.71g	data-sort-value="12.75">12.75g
	Mussel	Ocean	14.29%	14%	data-sort-value="30">30g	data-sort-value="45">45g	data-sort-value="4.29">4.29g	data-sort-value="6.30">6.3g	data-sort-value="10.71">10.71g	data-sort-value="10.50">10.5g
	Shrimp	Ocean	14.29%	5%	data-sort-value="60">60g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="8.57">8.57g	data-sort-value="4.50">4.5g	data-sort-value="10.71">10.71g	data-sort-value="4.50">4.5g
	Oyster	Ocean	14.29%	3%	data-sort-value="40">40g	data-sort-value="60">60g	data-sort-value="5.71">5.71g	data-sort-value="1.80">1.8g	data-sort-value="10.71">10.71g	data-sort-value="2.20">2.2g
	Trash	Ocean	0%	40%	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g
	Crayfish	Freshwater	33.33%	28%	data-sort-value="75">75g	data-sort-value="112">112g	data-sort-value="25">25g	data-sort-value="31.36">31.36g	data-sort-value="25">25g	data-sort-value="31.36">31.36g
	Snail	Freshwater	33.33%	13%	data-sort-value="65">65g	data-sort-value="97">97g	data-sort-value="21.67">21.67g	data-sort-value="12.61">12.61g	data-sort-value="25">25g	data-sort-value="12.61">12.61g
	Periwinkle	Freshwater	33.33%	21%	data-sort-value="20">20g	data-sort-value="30">30g	data-sort-value="6.67">6.67g	data-sort-value="6.30">6.3g	data-sort-value="25">25g	data-sort-value="15.70">15.7g
	Trash	Freshwater	0%	40%	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g	data-sort-value="41">41g