Chicken Wire Fish Trap

First get all your building materials to erect a brand new fish trap.
Chicken wire fish trap. Fish in the trap. Trap door fastened to gate frame with pig rings so that it swings freely. Make fish removal door and install throats. 2 or 3 rolls tying wire.
When a fish swims inside through this opening it cannot get out as the chicken wire opening bends back into its original narrowness. Set the trap by driving the support sticks into the ground along a line at 1 foot intervals. Catch tons of catfish bait with slim jims store live bait in keepnet portable live well duration. For suckers or carp poultry netting chicken wire is less expensive.
1 roll chicken wire 4 feet wide for tail b. Always maintain your traps in the best condition possible place them in fishspawning grounds and always use an appropriate bait for optimal results. 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. A pair of pliers.
For bait minnows a hardware cloth in 1 4 or 1 2 inch 0 6 or 1 3 cm mesh is fine. Lace the cut ends of the chicken wire to the 9 gauge wire. Catfish and carp 770 198 views. The mesh wraps around the frame and then tapers into the inside of the trap.
The choice then is the mesh size determined by the size of fish you are trapping. Wire 7 1 2 square and laced to cut opening of throat 2. 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.
200 poles about 7 8 feet in length d. Trap door made from 9 ga. Cut a 7 inch square piece of chicken wire for a door. I roll chicken wire 6 feet wide for heart c.
Wire 7 1 2 square and covered with chicken wire. Form the wire around the square piece of chicken wire. Repeat this step all the way around the trap to secure it to the ground. A trap to catch fish in a s l a e.
Insert a bent wire over the wire edge of the trap and into the ground.