Crab Trap, Net & Commercial Fishing Gear Removal in St. Simons Island, GA

On St. Simons it might be a stack of traps beside the shed at a home in Harrington Landing, or a net reel and fish boxes behind a house over in Black Banks.

Gear like this is a carry more than a lift. Traps weigh little one at a time but stack up bulky by the dozen, and they snag on each other and everything else on the way out. On the quieter, spread-out north end, the walk to where a truck can stand is often the longest part of the job, so we bring more hands for it.

People here notice whether a crew leaves the place clean, and word gets around. When the pile is gone, the loose float line and the scraps of mesh under it go too.

Traps and nets take up a lot of truck for their weight, so the trip off the island is worth planning. Summer weekends back the causeway up, and that time is in the estimate from the start.

We size the crew from the photos: how tall the stack is, how many nets there are, and how far it is from the pile to the nearest spot a truck can stop. Loading is also sorting — wire and steel in one place on the truck, netting, line and foam in another.

Wet, tangled nets are just heavy, and we plan for the weight. Gear from a commercial operation is welcome; whoever books the job just needs the right to dispose of what’s being removed.

Send us a few photos and tell us what you need removed. We’ll take it from there.

We figure out the right destination as the gear is sorted, and the load goes straight off the island to Brunswick.

Wire, steel frames and other metal that separates cleanly is usually recycled as scrap, often at SA Recycling in Brunswick.

Netting, line, foam floats and rotted wood are what’s left for disposal.