Homemade crawfish traps w/ pictures

[downed_Phly]

I built a trap that was very similar to the one you have shown here, but I always had one problem with it. I would usually just tie a rope to it and swing it out into the lake. It would almost always land upside down so the ramp leading into the trap was on the top, and crawdads could come in and go as they pleased.

Are you carefully placing your traps so this doesn't happen or is there some trick to it?

I eventually decided that I should just make a double ramp on each entrance, so regardless of how the trap lands it will work.

And honestly, after numerous finger pokes from that danged hardware cloth, I have given up building more traps and I'm just buying them now.
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