Chicken Wire Fish Trap

For bait minnows a hardware cloth in 1 4 or 1 2 inch 0 6 or 1 3 cm mesh is fine.

Chicken wire fish trap.

Cut a 7 inch square piece of chicken wire for a door. Cutting and tying now select a good location for your trap. Always maintain your traps in the best condition possible place them in fishspawning grounds and always use an appropriate bait for optimal results. Gate frame is made from 9 ga.

Form the wire around the square piece of chicken wire. Fish in the trap. Place the open side of the trap over the sticks. I roll chicken wire 6 feet wide for heart c.

Trap door made from 9 ga. A trap to catch fish in a s l a e. A typical contemporary trap consists of a frame of thick steel wire in the shape of a heart with chicken wire stretched around it. Catch tons of catfish bait with slim jims store live bait in keepnet portable live well duration.

2 or 3 rolls tying wire. Repeat this step all the way around the trap to secure it to the ground. A pair of pliers. Set the trap by driving the support sticks into the ground along a line at 1 foot intervals.

Make fish removal door and install throats. When a fish swims inside through this opening it cannot get out as the chicken wire opening bends back into its original narrowness. Catfish and carp 770 198 views. 200 poles about 7 8 feet in length d.

With a good chicken wire fish trap you are guaranteed of at least one eating size fishafter every 24 hours you can even get more if you set up bigger traps. Wire 7 1 2 square and laced to cut opening of throat 2. First get all your building materials to erect a brand new fish trap. Wire 7 1 2 square and covered with chicken wire.

Lace the cut ends of the chicken wire to the 9 gauge wire. For suckers or carp poultry netting chicken wire is less expensive. The mesh wraps around the frame and then tapers into the inside of the trap. Cut a section of 9 gauge wire that will fit around the chicken wire.

The choice then is the mesh size determined by the size of fish you are trapping.