Chicken Wire Fish Trap

Place the open side of the trap over the sticks.

Chicken wire fish trap.

Insert a bent wire over the wire edge of the trap and into the ground. Make fish removal door and install throats. 2 or 3 rolls tying wire. 200 poles about 7 8 feet in length d.

Trap door fastened to gate frame with pig rings so that it swings freely. Gate frame is made from 9 ga. Repeat this step all the way around the trap to secure it to the ground. Always maintain your traps in the best condition possible place them in fishspawning grounds and always use an appropriate bait for optimal results.

A typical contemporary trap consists of a frame of thick steel wire in the shape of a heart with chicken wire stretched around it. When a fish swims inside through this opening it cannot get out as the chicken wire opening bends back into its original narrowness. A trap to catch fish in a s l a e. Lace the cut ends of the chicken wire to the 9 gauge wire.

The choice then is the mesh size determined by the size of fish you are trapping. Trap door made from 9 ga. Cut a section of 9 gauge wire that will fit around the chicken wire. I roll chicken wire 6 feet wide for heart c.

For suckers or carp poultry netting chicken wire is less expensive. Wire 7 1 2 square and covered with chicken wire. Catfish and carp 770 198 views. A pair of pliers.

Cut a 7 inch square piece of chicken wire for a door. Set the trap by driving the support sticks into the ground along a line at 1 foot intervals. The mesh wraps around the frame and then tapers into the inside of the trap. First get all your building materials to erect a brand new fish trap.

1 roll chicken wire 4 feet wide for tail b. Cutting and tying now select a good location for your trap. Wire 7 1 2 square and laced to cut opening of throat 2. Fish in the trap.

Form the wire around the square piece of chicken wire.