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Crab bait
Posted on 8/11/24 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 8/11/24 at 8:18 pm
Put some traps out Saturday on the Island. Tide wasn’t the best but we still caught enough to boil. I used a smorgasbord of bail, fish heads, chicken wings, and shrimp heads, all mixed together. Was waiting to see what everyone else uses and finds works the best.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 8:28 pm to BigBucksNoWhammies
Speckled trout carcass
Posted on 8/11/24 at 8:42 pm to BigBucksNoWhammies
If I’ve got them then I’ll use trout carcasses, if not turkey necks.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 11:10 pm to BigBucksNoWhammies
Fish carcasses if I have them. If not, pogies or mullet are my next choice. I can get mullet at my dock most days, so that is what I go with if I don't have carcasses. Sometimes we have old chicken in the freezer and I will add that to the mix. We really buy too much chicken when it is on sale.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 8:18 am to BigBucksNoWhammies
I've found Lady Fish work well. When I catch some in the cast net, I'll run a string through their mouth and gills, cut a few slits in their sides and throw them out for crabs. I'm sure they'd work in traps as well.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 12:57 pm to BigBucksNoWhammies
caught 70 at GI state park this weekend in 4 traps using trout carcasses
Posted on 8/12/24 at 1:10 pm to BigBucksNoWhammies
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Speckled trout carcass
this is the best bait if you have it
Posted on 8/12/24 at 2:13 pm to tigerrage08
quote:
this is the best bait if you have it
If you don't, catfish heads work well
Posted on 8/12/24 at 2:16 pm to Motorboat
I have never done well using hard heads for bait. Trout carcasses work well and I have always caught using chicken leg quarters. Buy the cheap 10 lb bag for $5-6 dollars and drop one in each trap.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 10:55 am to bayoudude
We use Turkey necks because they cheap and string through the hole in middle. Find beef tongue if you can and use it. Bloody and tough.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 4:50 pm to bayoudude
Funny you say that because as a child, my uncle and I sat on a dock in pointe aux chene and caught a ton of them for crab lines. We did pretty good.
Posted on 8/14/24 at 7:15 am to Saskwatch
I don't know about Louisiana, but in Texas it is not legal to use game fish parts as bait. Dumb law, but I'm pretty sure I learned that somewhere, maybe the Texas game warden show.
Posted on 8/14/24 at 2:38 pm to BigBucksNoWhammies
Tonys Seafood in BTR, after they filet the catfish.
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