How to Use a Minnow Trap for Crawfish
A minnow trap is a mesh container with a hole on one side. When bait is placed into the trap, minnows swim into the hole to feed and then get trapped within the mesh container. You can also use these traps to catch crawfish. Crawfish are small crustaceans, much like their larger cousins lobsters. Crawfish can be trapped using the same methods as minnows.
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Things You'll Need
- Chopped up fresh bait fish
- 20 to 30 feet of marine nylon rope
- Rope buoys
- Permanent marker
- Bait bucket
Instructions
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Place the chopped up fresh fish bait into the trap's bait box. The key to catching crawfish is using fresh cut up fish, such as perch, bass or crappie. Place the bait box towards the back end of the trap.
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Slide a rope buoy over the nylon rope and mark it with a code you will recognize when placed with other traps. Tie the rope to the trap.
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Drop the trap into the water to trap the crawfish. Look for muddy bottoms where there is a slight cold water current. Let the trap settle to the bottom of the water.
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Tie the end of the rope to a tree or post along the water's edge and return after a day to check the trap. Bring a bait bucket to transfer the crawfish into after pulling them out of the water.
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- Photo Credit camoflauged crawfish image by Micah Jared from Fotolia.com
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for bait for the trap(s), you don't NEED to chop up fish bait like it says, just use a fish's head. you can get that from a supermarket for free...just go around back & take a look see at what fish they throw away. The Author says it(the bait) has to be fresh, that is not really true. crawdads as we call them here, LOVE rotting fish. Crawdads will eat anything that will decompose. Plants, dead animals, etc...they don't really care what it is.
