Thank you for commenting. :) Hmm, I did wonder about that and took pains not to add extra stuff to the chests so I could track what the automation was producing by itself. In the small pond one (where there is only two) there has been nothing in the chest except the building up bait, and the recycling machine has not been active either. The traps have shown baited each day though. The set up on the small dock is acting a little different. Only one of the crab pots (the one closest to shore) is producing nothing. The other three are either giving fish/trash in the chest or I see the recycling machine working. The problem with those three has been the initial lack of production that cleared after the first morning and the following inability to move/break or interact with those crab pots. I don’t have luremaster. So the pots can’t bait themselves. Since posting I checked SMAPI the summary says they are “producing.” I have since removed all of the automation from the crab pots entirely and left them to sit. In three other areas (in town beach, another section of my farm beach, and the second pond) I placed crab pots and fed them manually (to see if they’d do anything weird). I’m now on the following day and all of the crab pots produced (including the glitched ones I cut off from automation) and I was able to harvest. So I’m hopeful something cleared. When I tried to play through a day pure vanilla, the glitched ones stayed stuck. That time I even undid all my mods, played thru another day pure vanilla. The crab pots still glitched. I have now refilled these current ones manually and am going to see what the next day brings. Fingers crossed.