Chicken Wire Fish Trap

2 or 3 rolls tying wire.

Chicken wire fish trap.

For suckers or carp poultry netting chicken wire is less expensive. Cutting and tying now select a good location for your trap. Cut a 7 inch square piece of chicken wire for a door. Set the trap by driving the support sticks into the ground along a line at 1 foot intervals.

A typical contemporary trap consists of a frame of thick steel wire in the shape of a heart with chicken wire stretched around it. For bait minnows a hardware cloth in 1 4 or 1 2 inch 0 6 or 1 3 cm mesh is fine. A pair of pliers. When a fish swims inside through this opening it cannot get out as the chicken wire opening bends back into its original narrowness.

First get all your building materials to erect a brand new fish trap. 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.

Catch tons of catfish bait with slim jims store live bait in keepnet portable live well duration. Cut a section of 9 gauge wire that will fit around the chicken wire. Place the open side of the trap over the sticks. 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.

Always maintain your traps in the best condition possible place them in fishspawning grounds and always use an appropriate bait for optimal results. Insert a bent wire over the wire edge of the trap and into the ground. Trap door fastened to gate frame with pig rings so that it swings freely. 200 poles about 7 8 feet in length d.

The mesh wraps around the frame and then tapers into the inside of the trap. Lace the cut ends of the chicken wire to the 9 gauge wire. Catfish and carp 770 198 views. Fish in the trap.

1 roll chicken wire 4 feet wide for tail b. Gate frame is made from 9 ga. Wire 7 1 2 square and laced to cut opening of throat 2. Form the wire around the square piece of chicken wire.

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