Chicken Wire Fish Trap

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.

Chicken wire fish trap.

When a fish swims inside through this opening it cannot get out as the chicken wire opening bends back into its original narrowness. Catch tons of catfish bait with slim jims store live bait in keepnet portable live well duration. First get all your building materials to erect a brand new fish trap. Cut a section of 9 gauge wire that will fit around the chicken wire.

Set the trap by driving the support sticks into the ground along a line at 1 foot intervals. 1 roll chicken wire 4 feet wide for tail b. For suckers or carp poultry netting chicken wire is less expensive. Make fish removal door and install throats.

Trap door fastened to gate frame with pig rings so that it swings freely. Form the wire around the square piece of chicken wire. Catfish and carp 770 198 views. A trap to catch fish in a s l a e.

Repeat this step all the way around the trap to secure it to the ground. Lace the cut ends of the chicken wire to the 9 gauge wire. Trap door made from 9 ga. Cutting and tying now select a good location for your trap.

A typical contemporary trap consists of a frame of thick steel wire in the shape of a heart with chicken wire stretched around it. Always maintain your traps in the best condition possible place them in fishspawning grounds and always use an appropriate bait for optimal results. Wire 7 1 2 square and laced to cut opening of throat 2. 200 poles about 7 8 feet in length d.

A pair of pliers. Wire 7 1 2 square and covered with chicken wire. 2 or 3 rolls tying wire. The mesh wraps around the frame and then tapers into the inside of the trap.

Place the open side of the trap over the sticks. Insert a bent wire over the wire edge of the trap and into the ground. Cut a 7 inch square piece of chicken wire for a door. Fish in the trap.

I roll chicken wire 6 feet wide for heart c.