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How to properly set up a pillow crawfish trap.........
Posted on 2/21/12 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 2/21/12 at 10:58 pm
How do you properly set up a pillow trap? I thought you could fish them like a crab trap with a bottle attached, but I also had someone tell me that you had to keep half of it out of the water and stand it vertical.
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Posted on 2/21/12 at 11:09 pm to TJG210
If these are the crawfish traps I'm thinking about you stand them up and the open end sticks out the water. Then you pick them up and dump the crawfish out of the open top. Only kind I've ever used, other than nets.
Posted on 2/21/12 at 11:11 pm to Boats n Hose
They are long an cylindrical......but it seems to me if you put them vertical, the opening on the bottom would be stuck in the mud and the crawfish would have a difficult time getting in.
Posted on 2/21/12 at 11:28 pm to TJG210
Not sure I've ever seen those
Posted on 2/21/12 at 11:37 pm to Boats n Hose
Posted on 2/21/12 at 11:39 pm to TJG210
Ah never used one, just the one below it. Looks like you'd put it laying on the bottom so they can enter from both ends with a bouy tied onto it to pull it up
Posted on 2/22/12 at 6:13 am to Boats n Hose
Lay it on the bottom like a crab trap with a float.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 7:08 am to TJG210
They set em up in the spillway where half is out of the water, tied to a tree or bamboo/willow limb. Sometimes they are angled (if shallow) sometimes they just dangle in the water.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 7:28 am to The Sportsman
A few different ways to fish a pillow type trap. Can lay it flat on the bottom with throat with the current..Or take a longer trap and prop one end on a tree so that the crawfish can climb out of the water to get some air...
Posted on 2/22/12 at 8:51 am to CptEllerby277
we fish pillow traps in up to 20' of water. Just let out line until you feel the trap bottom (throat end) hit the ground and tie it off to a tree of limb. The trap needs to be vertical or at a slight slant. Wont catch any with it laying horizontal
Posted on 2/22/12 at 9:53 am to jdani11
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Wont catch any with it laying horizontal
Negative...They'll fish horizontal on the bottom my friend.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 10:08 am to CptEllerby277
Well, i know for a fact where we fish in the backwater of the MS, you will catch over double vertical what you would catch horizontal, used to do it fulltime when i was in college.
If you are running say 300-400 traps and they are 1/3 full and you come up on one trap 20' from other traps that has ten crawfish in it almost a guarantee that trap is horizontal, tighten the string and the next day production back up
If you are running say 300-400 traps and they are 1/3 full and you come up on one trap 20' from other traps that has ten crawfish in it almost a guarantee that trap is horizontal, tighten the string and the next day production back up
Posted on 2/22/12 at 11:38 am to jdani11
Laying a trap horozontal BAHAHAHA..... City slickers have no fricking clue...
You put them vertical with a slant...
My dad has crawfished for 30 years, you do NOT put a trap horozontal
You put them vertical with a slant...
My dad has crawfished for 30 years, you do NOT put a trap horozontal
Posted on 2/22/12 at 11:42 am to jdani11
quote:Was waiting on you to make an appearance
jdani11
Posted on 2/22/12 at 2:48 pm to SpicyStacy
I'm pretty far from a city slicker....In deep moving water, they'll fish flat on the bottom.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 3:44 pm to CptEllerby277
Theyll also die from lack of oxygen. 
Posted on 2/22/12 at 3:53 pm to TJG210
Where are you planning on fishing?
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