Almost all fishing gear can be made independently: both in order to and for catching cancer. For fish, you can, and the most effective method to catch a river arthropod is a crayfish. With the help of a simple home-made device, anyone can easily master this entertaining process.

Read how to make a crayfish at home, where to install it, what bait is better to use. Follow our instructions and you are guaranteed a successful catch!

You will need:

Manufacturing

Hunting for crayfish with a trap is very convenient and, moreover, legal. And there are a lot of types of these devices, on the Internet you can find detailed photos and pictures from the manufacture. We, in turn, will talk about the simplest and most popular.

In short, these devices look like this: two metal rings fastened together at a certain distance, covered with fine mesh on the outside.

Instead of rings, you can use a frame of any shape.

So, we make a crust with our own hands. We make a structure of rigid wire with a diameter of 35 to 50 cm, which resembles a cone in shape.

• Prepare a wire 5 mm thick, a fine mesh net and nylon threads.
• From steel wire, make two rings of different sizes - 35-50 cm and 15-20 cm, respectively.

  The large ring will serve as the basis for the future crayfish, and the small one will serve as its upper part.

• Wrap a large ring with a net using nylon threads.
• Then make wire spacers to secure the small ring over the large one. You will need at least three spacers of the same size.
• The result should be a fastening of a small ring at a height of 10-15 cm above the large one.
• Wrap the side elements of the structure with the edges of the remaining network and fasten them to the upper ring using the same nylon threads.

For easy transport, you can make one spacer detachable, allowing you to fold the fixture.

Lures

The next important step is choosing the right bait.

Crayfish have an excellent charm, so they feel appetizing, from their point of view, food from afar. These freshwater inhabitants love animal food. It is known that they rarely hunt and prefer carrion, respectively, and the aromas they are attracted to are far from French. But this is in nature, where it is difficult to find something fresher. If you put a piece of rotten meat with persistent amber in a crayfish bowl, it is not guaranteed that it will be perceived as a treat, especially if there is a less smelly alternative nearby.

However, there is no single correct opinion on this matter. Some fishermen claim that they have the best catches for rotten bait, while others, on the contrary, recommend taking only fresh food, cut into small pieces. So we leave you room for experimentation.

As for taste preferences, crustaceans are attracted by the smell of roach, bream, goby and crucian carp. But perch and pike should not be taken.

To enhance the flavor, make cuts along the spine and turn the meat inside out.

You can also use meat, frogs, freshwater clams and grasshoppers as bait. They are perceived as natural food that got into the water in its own way.

If we talk about plant-based food, then it will leave cancer indifferent, with one exception. A very effective bait is a clove or crushed garlic pressed into rye bread. To prevent it from floating out, place it in a small bundle of nylon stocking. Or twist the ingredients in a meat grinder and put them in gauze bags. The more garlic, the better.
Let's listen to connoisseurs who use different baits depending on the season:

• in spring, fresh or frozen fish or fry are better;
• in summer the catch will be more abundant if you take meat or offal;
• in cold seasons, there is little food in the reservoirs, so crayfish perfectly “peck” on bread with garlic and rotten meat with fish.

Installation

If the banks of rivers and lakes are covered with reeds, it is better to cast the barn using a boat.

In order not to look for the location of the trap later, tie an identification float to the rope - a piece of foam, a cork or other non-sinking object.

For fishing directly from the shore, the other end of the cord must be tied to a driven peg, snag or tree. Now you can cast the trap. They throw it from the shore or enter the river and install it in a specific place. You can also use a long horned pole:

• Plant the crayfish on the horn, exposing the pole from the shore.
• Then gently pull the signal cord.
• Now the crayfish will be at the very bottom of the reservoir in the required position.

Where to fish

Choose reservoirs with clean water, crayfish are almost never found in muddy, muddy waters.

Look for a place where there is no strong current, even better - its complete absence, calm surface. At the same time, pay attention to the characteristic features of the coast. The steeper it is, the more holes you can make there, but it will be much more difficult to lure an arthropod onto a gentle coast.
They are attracted by reeds and rocky bottom - that is, places where it is easy to hide.