Subject: crayfish

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 96 21:00:55 PDT

Can anyone tell me how to build crayfish traps?

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From: [email-masked] (Peter C. Bahrs)
Date: 7 Jun 1996 20:56:44 GMT

In Louisiana, its a chicken wire baskett about 1 foot in diameter and
2-3 feet deep.  There is a weight inside on the bottom where you 
attach a piece of fish or meat (chicken).  The top is open with a rope
attached.

I think the crawfish enter the top hole or through the chicken wire holes.

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From: [email-masked] (ElCoyotero)
Date: 14 Jun 1996 04:30:27 -0400

Basically you can scale down a lobster or crab pot.  However, I've found
it much easier to use the readily available mesh minnow traps.  These wire
mesh traps come in two sections, each a truncated cone, and are about a
foot long and half that much in diameter.  (Mine are out in the shed, and
I don't want to pay AOL bad enought to go get an accurate measurement. 
Sorry).  They run about $10 at most bait and tackle stores, and Wal-Mart
also carries them on occasion.  The V-shaped opening can be modified for
size selective operation, and you can also make a smaller trap inside for
the same purpose.  I've had great success with these traps, and heartily
recommend them.  ( I found out they were great crawdad traps when the
little buggers would get into them and scarf up the bait I was using for
darters, etc.)  If you position the traps right, bait is not needed. 
Crayfish will enter through their own volition when foraging about,
especially at night.

Jesse M. Purvis, Ph.D.
Rockfish Environmental Consultants
P. O. Box 248
Sterling, VA  20167