Crab Trap Bait Help

[Jonathan Allen]

I just got 10 crab traps that i put out yesterday and i baited them with cut up drum i caught the day before. Although this worked very well as i caught 50 crabs today what should i use for bait since i wont always have fish to cut up to use for bait? Any recommendations are appreciated!!


Also i was thinkin about putting out some trotlines to catch some catfish to use as bait is this a good idea?

[outcast]

which end of the lake are you running your traps in? I got some traps and was gonna drop them around manchac at the end of the month? Im not sure what to use for bait. I heard pogies were good, any cut bait really

[Jonathan Allen]

I live on bayou liberty and i have a few in the bayou and a few a little ways out in the lake, they are kinda small right now though. I've heard pogies are good to but i have no idea where to get any from

[Reel Bender]

Pogies and Catfish Heads work good.

One of the guys around here get Catfish heads from a processing plant in La.

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

can you use drum legally?

[Jonathan Allen]

im not sure but it was just the body after i cleaned it so i wouldnt see why not

[FF_T_Warren]

any ol cut bait will work. call a local bait store. Or if you just wanna hit the supermarket, Turkey necks

[Gerald]

When I am crabbing with drop lines........Trout heads are much better than Redfish heads for bait.

I sometimes use chicken leg quarters......get them on sale for $ .38 per pound or less sometimes. Chicken usually catches just as good as Trout heads.

[Cajun Outdoors]

I had a buddy that married into a family that owned crawfish/rice ponds and a seafood wholesale business.

He went to Grand Isle 5-6 years ago and being a city boy wanted to impress the in-laws. He was going to bring some crab traps and catch a mess to boil for his in-laws so he asked his "friends" what to use for bait. We told him the secret bait that they love is bananas. He went to Winn Dixie and bought two boxes/crates of bananas.

He put out 6 traps,a couple with whole bananas,couple with cut bananas, one with banana mash and in the last he put dead fish.

He caught 0,0,0,0,0,6 on his first run. It took him about 3 runs before he called us wanting to fight.

[FF_T_Warren]

Lol that's freakin great

[Woodduck Commander]

Haha that's awsome...it took three runs ))

[LaAngler]

back when i fished offshore more i would keep bonita to cut up and use

now i use trout heads

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by LaAngler

back when i fished offshore more i would keep bonita to cut up and use

now i use trout heads

you killing trout Bruce?? what is this world coming to when waders start killing trout...before we know it all the trout in Big lake will be gone....

[Garfish]

I always use catfish heads or chicken. You should be able to catch all the hardheads you want right now and stick em in the traps.

[Fishmaster]

chicken/turkey necks work really well,also very cheap

[Jordan]

Leave my hardheads alone !

[Jonathan Allen]

Thanks for all your input guys, im gonna use fish when i can im going to try putting out a trotline this weekend. Now the only problem is stopping people from stealing traps in 3 days i have already lost 2 traps.

[goldenrod]

sorry, didnt know they were for you.

[Fishmaster]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Allen

Thanks for all your input guys, im gonna use fish when i can im going to try putting out a trotline this weekend. Now the only problem is stopping people from stealing traps in 3 days i have already lost 2 traps.

We had that problem before we whould get padlocks and put them on there, if they still want to go threw having to cut it off they can keep it. No one likes a thief............. Oh and roofing nails, put them threw the line and it will send a message to who trys pulling them up, but makes it harder for your self also...

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by Fishmaster

We had that problem before we whould get padlocks and put them on there, if they still want to go threw having to cut it off they can keep it. No one likes a thief............. Oh and roofing nails, put them threw the line and it will send a message to who trys pulling them up, but makes it harder for your self also...

locks dont rust out??