Crawdad question

[wyfisher]

Here are a few more pictures of the traps. They are made with wire mesh and zip ties for the most part. I also place 2 weights in the bottom and 2 pieces of foam on the top so when it is thrown in they orientate themselves with the bait box in the bottom. I also put the plastic(gallon jug or 2 liter soda bottle ) on the out side of the bottom area. It keeps the crawdads from geting a free meal from the out side. the cones are cut from the mesh in a half circle. on a 24" long trap shown in the green make your tube part of the trap so the ends are 9.5" at the open ends. for the cones I take a string and starting from the center of the 24" roll hold one end of the string. The other end tie a marker to it and start at one sine of the wire mesh and make an ark over to the other side drawing your half circle to be cut out. The non coated wire fir the 24" X5' is about $8.00 the coated stuff is About $13.00. In the picture of the green madel you can see I tied a liter rootbeer bottle to the casting line to be used as a float if I drop them from my boat while fishing. most of the time I just set them from along the shore. Hope this help.
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