Chicken Wire Fish Trap

Make fish removal door and install throats.

Chicken wire fish trap. Wire 7 1 2 square and covered with chicken wire. 1 roll chicken wire 4 feet wide for tail b. Place the open side of the trap over the sticks. Repeat this step all the way around the trap to secure it to the ground.

Wire 7 1 2 square and laced to cut opening of throat 2. Fish in the 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. Cut a 7 inch square piece of chicken wire for a door.

For bait minnows a hardware cloth in 1 4 or 1 2 inch 0 6 or 1 3 cm mesh is fine. First get all your building materials to erect a brand new fish trap. I roll chicken wire 6 feet wide for heart c. Insert a bent wire over the wire edge of the trap and into the ground.

Catfish and carp 770 198 views. 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. For suckers or carp poultry netting chicken wire is less expensive. Cutting and tying now select a good location for your trap.

The mesh wraps around the frame and then tapers into the inside of the trap. Always maintain your traps in the best condition possible place them in fishspawning grounds and always use an appropriate bait for optimal results. Gate frame is made from 9 ga. Trap door made from 9 ga.

A trap to catch fish in a s l a e. 200 poles about 7 8 feet in length d. Trap door fastened to gate frame with pig rings so that it swings freely. Cut a section of 9 gauge wire that will fit around the chicken wire.

Catch tons of catfish bait with slim jims store live bait in keepnet portable live well duration. Set the trap by driving the support sticks into the ground along a line at 1 foot intervals. 2 or 3 rolls tying wire. 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.