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Almost anything
Raw chicken, squid, anchovies... etc
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 12y agoany type of meat works. just put a big chunk in the trap and the crabs will come!! you can also use a dead fish. i find cutting the fish open works best
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∙ 12y agoI highly recommend chicken neck. You can get 3 pounds of it at o gracery store
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What is the best bait to put in a crab trap?
fish sum times herring
What bait is best for crab fishing?
Canned catfood. Pop holes in the lid, add it to your trap. Seriously.
What is good bait for a lobster trap?
Dead fish. They are bottom feeders, after all.
What would be a good word picture of a stumbling block?
A stumbling block is the stick that holds the bait in a bird trap. Once a bird perches on the stick, the trap springs.
What bait is best for crabbing?
Crabs are known as scavengers, who will literally eat anything that they can sink their claws into. But, the age old question about bait really depends on what type of crabbing activity one does. Commercial crabbers in the Bering Sea, who go after the larger crabs will bait their Crab Pots with large chunks of fish, along with the fish heads and guts that people normally throw out. They may also include a bait bottle with mashed clams and other fishy viscera, and or a slowly dissolving oily and smelly chemical attractant solution. That type of baiting is obviously on one extreme. Recreational crabbing generally requires less bait dedication; as long as there's something in the crab trap, a crab will eventually smell it and show up to try to eat it. What helps the crab smell something is water movement. If a trap is laid in dead calm waters, where there is zero tidal activity, then that scent is not going to be carried very far. This is why long time crabbers like to go to areas that have good tidal bore movement, so that any bait scent is carried, attracting crabs from a much greater distance. Alternatively, some crabbers will augment their chances by using a lot of bait, filling a bait bag with an overflowing amount of bio material that is leaking a tremendous amount of smelly crab calling juices. What people have used as bait ranges with imagination and costs as consideration. Anything from Bunker (Atlantic Menhaden, type of oily fish) to Chicken Necks; to old 'about to spoil' and discarded fish parts (many supermarkets will sell this at reduced cost) can be used. Others will even bait their traps with cans of Cat Food that had holes punched into them. All things considered one has to decide for him or herself how much of an investment one wants to make in the crabbing activity. There doesn't seem to be a wrong way to bait a crab trap.
What do you use as bait to trap a ground hog?
apples
What can you bait a mouse trap with?
with white or yellow cheese...........
What is the best blue crab trap bait and does putting it in a sock to keep them from eating all your bait reduce your chances of catching them?
The best bait is Eel followed by bull lips, yes, bull lips. Crabs are very good at picking bait apart piece by piece. Eel is tough and long lasting followed by bull lips. However, you can slum with chicken necks as many "chicken neckers" from across the Bay do. Forget the sock. Crabs have eyes and will eat what they can see. They are bottom feeders.
Which bait is used for Snow Crab fishing?
The best bait used for opilio crab fishing is probably Squid. Cod or salmon can be used in some cases but squid is a cheaper better alternative to most all crab fisherman.
Is it called crab pot or crab pod?
If you are reffering to the trap in crab fishing it is called the "pot".
What kind of bait do you use to catch swordfish?
a barracuda
What is the best bait for Cod Fishing?
cod 4 is a pretty good game cod 5 is better
