Fish/Crayfish Trap Tutorial

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CanDo

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Hey guys,

Member "fish" from PaleoPlanet sent me 10 photos and instructions on how to make a very cool fish/crayfish/eel trap that he made for the wiki. He made it with nothing but brambles and a 4000 year old flint blade. He caught 80 lbs of crayfish over the spring with it! Good food free, what's better?

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Check it out, here!

If anyone has anything they'd like to submit, please go for it! This is turning into an awesome resource and really needs your help.
Media can be e-mailed to funditor.info@gmail.com

On that note, has anyone else done primitive seafood trapping? Please share :D


Regards,

CanDo
 
man that thing looks awesome...a few years back during the summers we would go get crayfish by just lifting over big rocks and putting them in a bucket and bet on fights. that thing would have made it a whole lot easier...sweet rig!
 
Make sure you use Zatarain's Crab Boil to cook those bad boys!

And don't eat the ones with straight tails.
 
AfterTFD said:
Why not? What's the difference?
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There is a saying that you shouldn't eat a boiled crawfish with a straight tail because that means the crawfish was dead before it was cooked. When a crawfish is boiled it curls up it's tail. However, if a crawfish was really cold or just near death before cooked, it may not curl up its tail and is still good to eat. The best way to determine if a crawfish was dead is to inspect the meat – if it falls apart, don't eat it.
 
Man that makes me hungry for a good ole' fashion redneck craw boil. Eat the tail/suck the head!
 
I'm definitely going to have to try this one out in the spring. No crayfish up here, but we have fish, and if I dare the ocean - Lobster!
 
hardware cloth

its like screen but with larger openings and just bend it and fasten with zipties
 
Well, it is nowhere near as much fun, but would be very easy to make a modern trap:

Take chicken wire with small holes and bend it into a cylinder. Ziptie one end shut. Make a cone from another piece, and wire it into place. Probably ten minutes vs. the natural way six hours. Now, if your out surviving for a few weeks, I'll take the natural path....
 
Seeing as how I'm on the Texas coast, I'll have to try that thing out :D. I don't know for certain about crawdads, but I know we have a lot of shrimp!
 
:eek:...For crawfish or crawdads I used to toss in old scraps left over from fried chicken and such...I'm thinkin' virtually any old meat scarps will work...I could have a filled trap in a day and a half...Worked great for gettin' enough for crab boils...:thumbup:...:)
 
DarrylS said:
:eek:...For crawfish or crawdads I used to toss in old scraps left over from fried chicken and such...I'm thinkin' virtually any old meat scarps will work...I could have a filled trap in a day and a half...Worked great for gettin' enough for crab boils...:thumbup:...:)
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This is what the maker of the trap has told me. He sent a bunch of tips for me to make a mini-article on laying the trap.

For crayfish, just throw in any old scraps. If you have the choice, try putting the traps where the watter is a little bit turbulent, because there will be more oxygen there. Also, wrap up the bait in some grass (or going modern, newspaper) to keep them from picking at it from the inside.
 
DarrylS said:
:eek:...For crawfish or crawdads I used to toss in old scraps left over from fried chicken and such...I'm thinkin' virtually any old meat scarps will work...I could have a filled trap in a day and a half...Worked great for gettin' enough for crab boils...:thumbup:...:)
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:eek::eek:..."SCARPS"...ya know???...Scraps cut from "carp"...cough, cough, gag...:p:p:D
 
Now that I think about it, I'll just go for crabs!!! There's plenty of those things around here, I'll just camp on the beach and set a trap over night and I should have plenty to eat for the upcoming ash-Wednesday and Good Fridays to come. In fact, that sounds like a new thread starter....
 
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